A controlling boyfriend who banned his girlfriend from going to the toilet alone after wrongly convincing himself she would contact other men has been jailed for a year.
Steven Bethune, from Congelton, Cheshire, even tried to stop Nichola Stephenson from visiting her own son after becoming obsessed with keeping her in his sight.
The 35-year-old was arrested after strangling the mum-of-one until she could barely breathe, grabbing hold of her head and banging it against a wall, leaving her with bruising to the face, neck and arms.
