A man grabbed his ex-partner by the throat and choked her before slamming her face against a pebble-dashed wall after she refused to give him a lift in her car, a court has heard. Andrew Perkins was laying in wait for his victim at her home as she returned from a night out in Neath having already broken into the property and soaked her bed and sofa with water in a drunken act of spite.
Swansea Crown Court heard Perkins has a story of assaulting partners, including throttling one and biting the ears of another. A judge described the defendant as a "cowardly bully" of women.
Carina Hughes, prosecuting, said Perkins and his victim had been in a relationship for around 12 months before separating in January this year and after a period of animosity the pair had agreed to be civil. On the evening of February 12 the woman went out to Neath with a friend and during the course of evening received a series of drunken messages from her ex asking her to pick him up. When the woman refused to collect him the messages turned abusive and threatening.
