A violent thug strangled, hit, stamped on and threw paint over a woman because she interrupted them having sex by saying she needed to see her brother.
Michael Wallace and the victim had been drinking in a pub in Sunderland last May and ended up going back to her home. All was going well until she mentioned needing to see her sibling.
Helen Towers, prosecuting, told Newcastle Crown Court : "This angered him. He straddled her, slapped and punched her multiple times before grabbing her neck and starting to strangle her, shouting 'you've made me do this'.