Overview
- Preston Crown Court sentenced the 28-year-old from Skelmersdale to two years after he admitted strangulation, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, battery and criminal damage.
- In a 2023 incident, he forced his pregnant partner to the floor and strangled her with both hands, the court heard.
- After the birth, the victim found a child unfed for about five hours while he played Xbox, and he then kicked her to the ground and punched her in the face during a confrontation.
- In August 2025, he headbutted her in the garden in front of a neighbour and a child, declared “She’s my bird, I will do what I want,” threatened her with a kitchen knife and caused criminal damage.
- The court identified the domestic setting, the strangulation during pregnancy and the presence of children as aggravating factors, while noting mitigation about his background and the victim’s plea not to jail him.