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Ryan O'Neill & Nicola Croal

Abusive thug made girl, 8, swallow washing up liquid and strangled her mum

A vicious man who made an eight-year-old girl swallow washing up liquid and tried to choke her mother has been jailed and received a 20-year restraining order which forbids him from contacting both his victims. Dalton Jefferies, 22, both physically and psychologically abused his ex-girlfriend by degrading her in front of her friends and taking her mobile off her when they weren't in the same room.

Jefferies also tried to throttle the woman before self harming, which he accused the woman of making him do, Wales Online reports. The brute was snared by North Wales Police young girl began to share stories about her situation at home while she was in school, Caernarfon Crown court heard on October, 12.

He was arrested and jailed for two-and-a-half years for the abuse, while he was also hit with a 15-month sentence for child cruelty, which will run concurrently. Jefferies, of Cwr Y Coed, Llangefni, had regular angry outbursts which included telling his former partner, the girl's mother, he would "chew her tongue off".

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