A woman fled her hotel room in a panic after her furious boyfriend threw her down on the bed and started strangling her.
Elliot Harris, of Cavendish Close in Old Hall, Warrington, told his teenage victim "I wouldn't care if you were dead" as he choked her in their room at the Hard Days Night Hotel on November 18, 2022. She bravely fought back and managed to break free, and ran outside screaming.
She took refuge in another guest's room, and reported what had happened to hotel staff, who described her as "shaking, crying and struggling to speak".
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When police arrived at the city centre hotel, they found Harris - who had downed eight shots, two cocktails and four beers - fast asleep in bed.
He was sentenced to 14 months in a young offenders' institute yesterday, June 12, having been found guilty of assault causing actual bodily harm at an earlier trial at Liverpool Magistrates' Court.
The court heard how his 19-year-old victim, who is disabled and paralysed on one side, "thought she was going to die" as Harris loomed over her with his hands around her neck.
The pair had been visiting Liverpool for a romantic weekend - but when they returned to their hotel room at around 2am, they began to argue about the girl's father, whom Harris, 20, did not get along with.
The girl began to cry and attempted to leave the room, but Harris pulled her back, pinned her to a wall and shouted in her face. He then knocked on the wall and said "the walls are thick, no one will hear you" before dragging her onto the bed and choking her.
Sentencing, Recorder Paul Taylor said: "You had way too much to drink. You started an argument over some issues you had concerning her father. How that was something she was responsible for is difficult to see. Arguments, albeit not leading to violence, had been a feature of your relationship.
"She couldn't get away. It must have been terrifying. She thought you were not going to stop. She thought she was going to die.
"I bear in mind there is still some level of immaturity. But your offence terrified your former partner. It was not a momentary offence from which you desisted quickly. She thought you were the reason she was going to die."
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