A violent thug "bit off part of a woman's ear" in front of horrified tourists outside a Blackpool bar after spending the day in the seaside town.
Aiden Dickinson, 21, has been jailed for seven years after a series of attacks on the woman. On a separate occasion, Dickinson set upon the woman knowing she was pregnant and suffering complications.
He also sunk his teeth into her on that occasion, Preston Crown Court was told.
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On June 24, 2021, the couple were in a hotel room after a day of heavy drinking. A row broke out and Dickinson began punching furniture, Lancs Live reports.
He smashed a mirror and grabbed his partner around the throat, pushing her against a wall and biting her cheek. As she pleaded with him to stop, Dickinson bit harder before pushing her onto the floor and dragging her to a bed where he continued punching her face and arms.
Recorder Julian Shaw, sentencing, said: "You bit her legs in various places, you were abusive to her and you tried to stop her fleeing the hotel and down the road."
In March 2022, Dickinson, of Lytham Road, Blackpool, attacked the woman again, knowing she was pregnant and unwell. A row broke out but as his partner tried to call for help, Dickinson pulled her onto the bed and slapped her face.
The judge said: "Fortunately somebody called the police, otherwise it is difficult to know how or what would have compelled you to stop this assault on her again". Dickinson was arrested and damaged the police cell, but less than three weeks later he turned on his partner again, after drinking heavily.
The couple were outside The Flying Handbag in Dickson Road, Blackpool, when people walking by saw the attacker bite the woman's fingers and push her to the floor.
Recorder Shaw said: "You bit her face and bit off the lower part of her ear. Horrified members of the public saw you and she covered in blood and heard her screaming."
The police were called but as PC Greer tried to restrain him, Dickinson threw his head back and injured the officer.
In a victim impact statement, the woman said she now has significant scarring to her face and ear as a result of Dickinson's violence. She said: "I feel ugly and have to live with this for the rest of my life as a constant reminder of him. I don't know how I can get over it.
"I am struggling to get over how he treated me during our relationship and how it all came to an end when he assaulted me. I still feel under his control and I think about him and what he did to me every day."
Dickinson pleaded guilty to GBH, two counts of ABH, and assault on an emergency worker. Recorder Shaw handed him a five year jail term for GBH, with 12 months to run concurrently for each ABH offence, telling him: "The level of violence you inflicted on someone you professed to love is truly horrific.
"It is frightening and it shows to me a complete inability to control your behaviour, disinhibited as it was through grotesque amounts of alcohol." The judge acknowledged difficulties in Dickenson's childhood but said: "You have to take personal responsibility for your own actions and the devastating effect they had on your partner."
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