Published date: 26 February 2016 |
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A "manipulative and violent" man has been jailed for 63 weeks after a court heard about his habit of attacking partners.
Joshua Wren, aged 23, pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm when he broke a finger of 35-year-old Nia Short, his former partner, where they were living in Anglesey, and of two other common assaults on her, one of them a head-butt.
A probation officer told Judge Philip Harris-Jenkins at Caernarfon crown court on Thursday that Wren seemed to minimise the seriousness of the offences and failed to empathise with his victim.
Miss Short was the third victim of domestic assaults by him.
He took cannabis on a daily basis and did not contemplate stopping, and was assessed as being of a high risk of harm to future partners.
Simon Mintz, defending, said Wren was 22 at the time and too young to embark on a relationship with someone who had three teenage children.
"He needs help with his anger," added the barrister.
Apart from the jail sentence Wren, of no fixed address, must observe a five-year restraining order banning him from the Maes Hyfryd Estate at Beaumaris or contacting Miss Short and her family.
The judge told him that in her impact statement Miss Short had recalled how for most of their relationship she had been in fear of him.
"It affected her life because of your manipulative ways, violence and aggressive behaviour towards her."
see-http://www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/159106/-manipulative-and-violent-man-jailed-for-more-than-a-year.aspx
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