A "controlling and jealous" Port Talbot man who punched his girlfriend unconscious — leaving her with black eyes, severely swollen cheeks, and covered in cuts and bruises — has been sentenced to two years in prison.
Rhys Kinsella launched the attack at his partner's home in Sandfields after the pair ordered a pizza had began "bickering".
Swansea Crown Court heard 22-year-old Kinsealla has five previous offences of battery on his records, as well as actual bodily harm, robbery, racially aggravated assault, public order and criminal damage.
Kinsella, of Station Road, Port Talbot, had previously pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm when he appeared in the dock for sentencing.
The court heard that on the evening of April 15 Kinsella finished working with his father and went to his partner's house.The pair drank Foster's lager and ordered a pizza but then a row broke out, which resulted in Kinsella punching his partner in the face as she sat on the sofa.
He then grabbed her by her hair and dragged her into the bedroom where he repeatedly punched her in the face.
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Craig Jones, for the prosecution, said: "The complainant cannot remember how many times she was punched by the defendant, but she must have passed out because when she came to she was back in the living room."
Kinsella then left the property — and later posted messages on Facebook apologising to his victim.
The barrister added that the victim described the defendant as "very controlling and jealous in nature".
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The court heard that at the time of the attack Kinsella was out of prison on licence following his conviction for a street robbery in Bridgend in 2014. He was since been recalled to prison to serve the rest of the three year sentence for that offence.
Robert Chudleigh, for Kinsella, said both parties had been intoxicated at the time of the incident, and neither were able to remember what the bickering had been about.
Recorder Paul Lewis QC sentenced Kinsella to two years — which will run concurrently with the remainder of the robbery sentence he is currently serving — and made him the subject of a five year restraining order banning him from contacting his victim.
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