A smirking teenage thug strangled his girlfriend and punched her at least 20 times to the face after she refused his sexual advances. The attacker had been out drinking when he turned up at the victim's flat at 5.30am in the morning ranting.
Declan Howells, 19, had been in a relationship with the victim for a year but matters came to a head on November 4 last year. He had been out with friends in Cardiff city centre and called the victim at 1am, and she said he could come to the flat.
At 2am he called again and asked the victim to meet him but she refused and went to sleep. A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday heard Howells arrived at the address in the early hours of the morning and was heavily intoxicated.
