A jealous boyfriend locked his “cowering” partner in a room and beat her as she tried to protect her dog from his vicious attacks.
Lee Cavanagh flew into a rage after his girlfriend went out with her friends on December 26, last year, and took it out on her by subjecting her and her pug to an assault in her own home.
After his attack on the woman he spent months threatening her, ordering her to retract statements she had made about him to the police and telling her “the beatings I’ve given you in the past are nothing compared to what you are going to get today”.
