A student from St Andrew’s University received a £1,000 fine for pursuing another student with a knife.

Ewan Harvey faced his sentencing at Dundee Sheriff Court located in Scotland where the previous day it emerged he had also gushed vodka into his flatmate’s eyes and instigated a fire in her room.

A restraining order has been put in place which prohibits Harvey from contacting the student and his prior room-mate, identified as Amanda Meum, for a period of five years.

Harvey acknowledged having a solid bond with Amanda but rebuffed any assertions of them being a couple, stating he was in a durable relationship with another woman.

‘He did not. Ewan started chasing her round the table with the knife. Ewan was a bit off-kilter, likely part of the persona he was attempting to exhibit. It was intense and frightening.

‘Amanda was concerned but tried to maintain composure amid the situation. Anxious laughter could be heard. The table wasn’t large. He went around about four times, then held the knife to her throat. It was nearly a centimetre away. It wasn’t in contact with her but was dangerously close.

‘I believe he then placed the knife on the table as everyone was demanding him to put it down. He was unstable. That incident seemed much more intense than a simple joke.

‘We were taken aback. It was a cause for concern as it posed a threat to everyone’s safety.’

Sebastian Flame, a postgraduate from the Business School, expressed his initial perception of Harvey’s actions being purely boastful. However, alarm grew as Harvey refused to relinquish possession of the knife he was brandishing.

Harvey was queried by his housemates about striking marks on Amanda’s lower limbs, added Mr. Flame.

According to Mr. Flame, ‘Amanda, positioned on his lap, echoed our sentiments – pleading him to cease his actions and to pass the knife over to her.’

The defendant, a majoring in Geographical Sciences and visibly distressed upon listening to the charges levied against him, alleged himself as a scapegoat, targeted by several of his co-habitants.

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Sheriff Eric Brown said: ‘I was not impressed by your evidence which I considered to be unconvincing and self-serving.

‘I did not consider your evidence to be credible or reliable and nothing said by you in your evidence caused me to have a reasonable doubt about the Crown case.’

‘The position of your defence is that the Crown witnesses have conspired and, in effect, fabricated or embellished evidence and have been telling lies.

‘I believed their evidence.’

Harvey was previously found guilty of acting in a threatening or abusive manner because of chasing his flatmate with a knife, putting the knife near her throat and also throwing it and stabbing it into a table.

The student was also found guilty of assaulting his flatmate by pouring vodka in her eyes, pushing her into a wall, throwing a glass bowl at her and placing her in a chokehold as well as pushing her and kicking her.

He is also guilty of ‘culpably and recklessly’ setting fire to an empty chocolate box in his flatmate’s room.

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