A domestic abuser carried out a terrifying attack on his ex-partner and strangled her in her own home after climbing through a window.
Benjamin Carr had met up with his former girlfriend in a car park on July 30 this year in order to collect some of his belongings, but the 29-year-old immediately sprung an attack on the woman and dragged her around by her hair. The woman managed to run away to a friend's home, but when she returned to her own house hours later, she was confronted once again by Carr, who had managed to get into the property.
Carr, of Deckham Terrace, Deckham, Gateshead, appeared at Newcastle Crown Court on Thursday via link from HMP Durham to be sentenced for assault by beating and intentional strangulation. Carr had denied the offences but was found guilty following a trial at South Tyneside Magistrates' Court.
