Vale of Glamorgan,South Wales - Sweet potato used to assault woman who was then threatened her parents' house would be torched

Windsor Road, where Jones had a flat. He assaulted his partner with a sweet potato.

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A MAN assaulted his partner with a sweet potato before going on to threaten to beat her to death and burn her parents' house down.

Swansea Crown Court heard that Anthony Jones and his now ex- had had a "volatile relationship" since meeting at the Headlands School in the Vale of Glamorgan, a school which specialises in teaching youngsters with challenging needs.

Robin Rouch, prosecuting, said the couple — who both have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) — began dating in their early teens and eventually moved in together in a flat in Neath.

However in June this year police were called after Jones sent dozens of "threatening and sinister" texts to his partner following her ending of the relationship, telling her he was going to beat her to death and burn down her parents' house.

On one occasion he tried phoning her 63 times in an hour, but she refused to answer any of the calls.

Mr Rouch said police went to Jones' flat in Windsor Road, Neath, the following day but he ran off — officers gave chase and caught him a short distance away.

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It then emerged he had wounded his partner in the leg with a knife in 2013, and had assaulted her with a sweet potato in early 2015 — on that occasion a row between the pair had escalated, and he had thrown the root vegetable at her, hitting her in the face.

Jones, aged 21, had previously pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, harassment and making threats to kill when he appeared in the dock yesterday for sentencing.

Frank Phillips, in mitigation, said the emotional difficulties the pair had — Jones' ex also suffers with oppositional defiant disorder as well as ADHD — meant they had a "mutually destructive" relationship which was a "recipe for disaster".

Jones was sentenced to 12 months in prison suspended for 18 months, and made the subject of a two-year restraining order banning him from contact his ex-partner.

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