A thug strangled his 88-year-old grandmother after headbutting her and punching her repeatedly in the ribs when she told him to stop drinking alcohol. He later told police his grandmother was a "liar" and claimed she had caused the injuries after falling over.
Matthew Jonathan, 37, attacked Barbara Jenkins at her home in Tonyrefail on September 9 last year after he slammed a bottle on a table and said: "If I want to f****** drink I will and no-one is going to stop me." He became violent after Mrs Jenkins told her grandson she was going to call his mother Tracey Jonathan.
A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Tuesday heard the defendant was living with his grandmother after the breakdown of his marriage. Mrs Jenkins described her relationship with Jonathan as "good" but when he drank alcohol he became a "completely different person".
