A violent drunken thug who punched his partner after she went to hide in the toilet then strangled her has been jailed.
Daniel Jenkins had been given a warning shot about his behaviour just weeks before after claims he had been violent to his girlfriend. But after downing 12 pints at her home, he again turned aggressive.
Sensing what was to come, she went to hide in the bathroom but he followed her before launching a prolonged attack. A judge at Newcastle Crown Court told him restricting her breathing with his hands around her neck was "extremely serious" and rejected pleas for his prison sentence to be suspended.
