A "controlling, jealous" man lunged at his girlfriend and cruelly told her he hoped her sick mother would die.
John Rice, of Chestnut Street, Southport, attacked his girlfriend as she sat in The Wellington Pub on Eastbank Street at around 2pm on August 14 last year. The 56-year-old was caught on CCTV rushing at the woman and knocking her to the floor, breaking her hip, before running away.
Just one day earlier, on August 13, he had lunged at the woman over the fence of Leo's Bar on Nevill Street, and threatened to assault her brother and smash up her car.
