A MAN has been charged with attacking and throttling two women during an alleged series of violent incidents at addresses in Largs and Greenock.

Jordan O'Neill is accused of placing a lit cigarette against the body of the Largs woman and repeatedly punching the other on her head and body.

O'Neill, 27, is also charged with isolating both women from their friends and family and monitoring their mobile phone usage and social media accounts.

Prosecutors say he forced the alleged victims to delete contacts from their phones and induced them not to leave their respective homes.

O'Neill is also accused of threatening both women with having their children removed from their custody.

The Crown says he seized and compressed the women's necks and restricted their breathing during separate alleged attacks.

O'Neill is accused of throwing a lit cigarette at one of them at an address on Jura Way in Largs, placing a lit cigarette against he body and of repeatedly pouring cold water over her head and body.

He is further charged on indictment with trying to defeat the ends of justice by allegedly repeatedly contacting her and instructing her to tell police that she had not been truthful in a statement she had provided to an officer.

O'Neill is said to have induced the woman to 'disengage with a police investigation'.

He is charged with repeatedly sending her offensive and threatening messages, repeatedly making offensive remarks about her family members and repeatedly threatening to harm her family.

O'Neill is said to have repeatedly assaulted the other woman at his home and at addresses on Devol Avenue, Poplar Street and Wellington Street in Greenock.

He is said to have repeatedly struck her head against a floor and walls.

O'Neill is accused of taking the bank cards of both women and to have prevented one of them from spending money.

He is also accused of alleged threatening and abusive behaviour towards two men.

The Crown says that O'Neill committed the alleged offences between July 2010 and November 2021.

O'Neill, of Dalmally Street in Greenock, has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges through lawyer Aidan Gallagher, with the case due to call again at Greenock Sheriff Court on January 24.