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image captionSentence at the High Court in Glasgow was deferred
A woman whose boyfriend attacked her but claimed she had been mugged whispered to police "it was him", a court had heard.
Andrew McCarry, 23, was originally charged with attempting to murder Ashleigh Mankin in Inverurie.
He admitted punching, kicking and choking her to the danger of her life.
The High Court in Glasgow heard he shouted he would kill her, then told emergency services she had been mugged. Sentence was deferred.
The incident happened in November 2019 in the Aberdeenshire town's Middlemuir Road.
Prosecutor Sheena Fraser said the couple had been out for the evening but argued and returned home .