Selkirk Sheriff Court A LABOURER pinned his partner to the ground with his foot to her injury during a violent confrontation at a house in the Borders, Selkirk Sheriff Court has been told. James Hamilton, 30, also admitted making threatening and abusive remarks towards the woman at the house in West Linton on October 10. Procurator fiscal Fraser Matheson explained the couple had spent the previous night together drinking and watching television. The police had visited regarding a noise complaint in the area and left the house. But after midnight things became heated between the couple with Hamilton abusive towards her with foul-mouthed insults and calling her an unfit mother”.