A man beat a mum over the head with straighteners before trying to urinate on her in a vicious Christmas Day attack.
Stephen Smith also strangled his now ex-partner with a belt a few days earlier as part of a series of increasingly brutal assaults. The 32-year-old, from Stockbridge Village, sobbed yesterday as a judge at Liverpool Crown Court jailed him.
Graham Pickavance, prosecuting, detailed a series of attacks which Smith carried out on the woman, who the ECHO has chosen not to name. The first, on December 21 last year, saw Smith tie a belt around her neck and tighten it, causing the woman to struggle to breath. She said he was gripping the belt so tightly that she thought she may have briefly passed out.
