A thug left his former partner battered, bruised and with a broken arm after forcing entry to her home and attacking her.
Robert Patterson's victim had ended their five-year relationship due to his violent and controlling behaviour and he had previously been jailed and given a restraining order for assaulting her.
In the early hours of January 16 she was at her Newcastle home with her daughters, aged 5 and 21, when she was woken by the sound of a bang and saw Patterson had broken a glass panel in her back door to gain entry. Newcastle Crown Court heard she ran back upstairs to call police.
