A drunk bully choked his girlfriend and punched her in the face when she told him to leave their home after drinking eight or nine pints of lager. The assault left her unable to breathe leaving her feel "upset and frightened".
Michael Rice, 37, of Newport, had been in an on and off relationship with his victim for six years when he attacked her on April 24 last year. He began drinking alcohol in the morning before he and his then partner went to the Out Out bar in Maindee.
A sentencing hearing at Newport Crown Court on Friday, January 13 heard the couple returned to the victim's home at midnight and went to bed. But Rice was heavily intoxicated having drunk lager and spirts, and she asked him to leave her home.
