A final chance was handed to a Speedwell man convicted of assaulting his partner a second time. But a judge spared Emmanuel Farquharson from an immediate jail term by a whisker and said he would not spare him again.
Farquharson, 38, of Whitefield Road, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He also admitted breaching a suspended prison sentence handed to him for a previous battery on the same complainant.
The Recorder of Bristol His Honour Judge Peter Blair QC imposed a 24 weeks jail term suspended for two years. He told Farquharson: "By a hair's breadth I am persuaded that it wouldn't be right to activate the suspended sentence today. This is one final opportunity."
