Man spared jail over attack on girlfriend A MAN who carried out a vicious attack on his girlfriend and forced her to flee almost naked from their home has been spared a jail term. Graham Lowrie, 26, punched and kicked Susanne Auld, 26, and beat her about the head with a kitchen pot, but she has taken him back, a court heard. Lord Turnbull decided that Lowrie should be kept under supervision for two years as he attempted to clear himself of a drug addiction. The High Court in Edinburgh was told that Lowrie had been withdrawing from the drug, gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), on Boxing Day last year when he assaulted Ms Auld to her severe injury at their tower block flat in Moredunvale Bank, Edinburgh. He kept calling her "Billy" and started punching her. He said she had switched bodies with Billy, and added: "You think you're a hard nut...you have to die, Billy." He kneed and kicked her to the head, smashed her head off the floor, and tried to strangle her. Ms Auld fled wearing only socks and pants, but Lowrie caught her in the lift and struck her repeatedly with a kitchen pot. She managed to get away, and was taken in by a neighbour. Lowrie shouted: "Dinnae listen to her, she's evil. He's got to die. Later, he told police: "He was in my girlfriend. She turned into Billy. Ms Auld required 32 staples to head wounds. The defence solicitor-advocate, David Taylor, said the couple remained in "a loving relationship" and Ms Auld was supporting the accused, who had vowed to change his lifestyle. Lord Turnbull said he took into account that Lowrie, who had only two minor previous convictions, had been more than six months in custody, and that there was an ongoing relationship with his partner. He decided on a drug treatment and testing order, but warned Lowrie that if he breached the order, he would be sentenced anew for the attack.