A thug who subjected his partner to a 12-hour assault has a record for violent crime stretching back more than three decades.
Robert Saxon was jailed for two and a half years earlier this week for an assault on his then girlfriend which saw him headbutt, kick, and punch her.
He also grabbed her by the neck so hard she couldn’t breath, bit her and forced his fingers into her eye sockets during the attack in Warrington earlier this year.
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A judge at Liverpool Crown Court said there appeared to be little chance of the 50-year-old changing his ways as he keeps on committing crime “year in, year out”. The court heard Saxon has 61 previous convictions for 146 offences going all the way back to the late 1980s.
Beginning when he was a youth, Saxon has committed violent crimes at various points throughout his life. They include multiple assaults in the 1990s and 2000s and even a wounding in 2017 that saw him receive a three-year jail term.
His latest victim said in a statement to the court he continued to threaten her after she reported him, with Saxon telling her that he would kill her if he went to prison for a long time and that if she got a new partner he would kill them as well. Paul Treble, defending, told Judge Anil Murray that Saxon had mental health issues linked to his long term abuse of heroin and said these issues were highly likely to have triggered some of his offending.
Sentencing him, Judge Murray said Saxon’s appalling record meant he currently appeared unlikely to change his behaviour and said he still didn’t grasp the impact of his violent behaviour on his ex partner.
He said: “You are a high risk of causing serious harm to known individuals upon release. You have a poor history of compliance with court orders. There is, in my opinion, no realistic prospect of rehabilitation and you downplay your offending. You just keep on offending year in, year out.”
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