EX-MOTHERWELL star Kevin Van Veen blurted out ‘you’re a f***ing liar’ from the dock as his former girlfriend told a court of alleged domestic abuse at his hands.
The 33-year-old forced the sheriff to temporarily halt his case as he continually said ‘you’re a liar’ and ‘I’m not having this, I’m not doing this’ at Hamilton sheriff court today.
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The Dutch striker, who also played for St Mirren and Kilmarnock, is alleged to have been responsible for abuse in Lanarkshire, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire and Cancun, Mexico, leaving her ‘petrified.’
Prosecutors claim he repeatedly shouted, swore, threatened violence and made offensive remarks towards the woman between 2021 and 2024.
He is also accused of grabbing her, pushing her off a bed when pregnant, locking her inside his home and turning up at her relatives’ properties.
Giving evidence via video link from elsewhere in the court building, the 33-year-old complainer, who can’t be named for legal reasons, said she got together with Van Veen in 2021 and at the beginning he was ‘a gentleman, charming and respectful.’
But she told fiscal Scott O’Conner that Van Veen would monitor her Instagram and she blamed a ‘lack of trust or insecurity’ on his behalf that would ‘start fights.’
As she told the court about times where he would ‘hold me by the wrists and pin me to the wall to prevent me leaving’, Van Veen began calling her a liar from the dock.
Sheriff Shirley McKenna warned him: “It’s important you listen and do not interrupt. Do you understand?”
The court took a ten minute break before the witness continued recalling the alleged abuse.
She told the trial she would be accused of ruining his performances for Motherwell if he had not played well.
She said: “He would pin me to the wall, have me by the arm and I would say I just wanted to leave and he would say ‘not until I calm down.’
“This would go on all night, sometimes for hours.
“We would go to bed and he would start again like there was a pattern.
“It would be the night before he had a football game and I would remember thinking he was nervous but it seemed to be a pattern then he would say that I kept him up all night and that is why he didn’t perform.”
She said she had her wrist twisted by van Veen during one incident at his then home in Uddingston, Lanarkshire.
The complainer also said she feared van Veen had gone to assault her but stopped because ‘it was not worth’ his football career.
The woman further alleged a holiday in Mexico was ‘two weeks of mental torture’ because of him ‘shouting and screaming’ in her face as well as being accused of being a ‘slag and a slut’ over a dress he deemed too tight.
She also claimed Van Veen would ‘clench his teeth and fist’ towards her in anger which left her ‘threatened, scared and petrified’.
The goal man had been on loan at St Mirren from Dutch side Groningen but his contract with the Paisley side was ripped up following his initial court appearance last October.
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Van Veen, of Glasgow, denies a single charge under domestic abuse laws.
The trial continues next month.
