A cruel brute told his girlfriend to 'say goodbye' to her children as he threatened to slit her throat, a court heard.
Michael Maher beat up, verbally abused and threatened his former partner in a vicious 'campaign of domestic violence'. In February last year, he spat at her, pulled her from the sofa by her hair, bit her finger and tore at her clothing in a horrific attack.
On another occasion he called her and threatened to kill her, before smashing up belongings inside her home including precious photographs of her children. Maher's victim was left 'petrified' and now 'suffers on a daily basis', the court was told.
