A man who had taken drink and drugs stamped on his partner’s face causing horrific injuries.
This victim suffered a broken jaw but attacker Matthew Jones refused to get her help saying she was all right.
Jones, 37, of Nant y Coed in Holywell, admitted wounding Laura Anne Jones and was jailed for three years.
A five-year restraining order was made under which he is not to contact her in any way, and he is not to go within 200 yards of her address.
Jones, who appeared at Mold Crown Court via a live television link from Altcourse Prison in Liverpool, was told by Judge Niclas Parry that it was a sickening attack in drink.
“You dragged her by the hair, you held her and you then punched her repeatedly,” Judge Parry told him.
“When she was on the floor, you stamped on her.”
The shape of her face changed
The judge said a witness had described how the shape of her face changed when he stamped on her.
“When she asked you for help you told her that there was nothing wrong,” said Judge Parry.
It all happened in the presence of a relative who “felt it necessary to throw herself over your victim” to protect her from further violence.
Judge Parry said that the defendant had an appalling record for violence which included numerous convictions for assaults both on his previous partner and the present victim including an incident for which he received a two-year sentence.
Fresh start
Defending barrister Owen Edwards said that his client accepted full responsibility and the fact that the problems he had impacted on other people’s lives.
It was a deeply worrying assault in unpleasant circumstances.
It had been a dysfunctional relationship which would not persist.
On his release he would make a fresh start and would move away from the town where he had been drinking and where he had been getting himself “into this situation”.
While on remand he had been receiving more help than he had ever received in his life.
He had done horticultural and surveying courses, following anger management, and drug and alcohol courses and was receiving mental health treatment.
For the first time he was medication for anxiety and depression.
“My client is looking to the future with a clearer eye and recognises that it is better for Laura Jones not to have him in her life.
“It will be better for him to start a new life where he does not put himself in these situations,” said Mr Edwards.
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