Anthony Skinner told police he had 'kicked off big style' when he attacked his former partner
A man who throttled his former partner and threatened to kill her has been jailed for 18 months.
Anthony Skinner, 42, was jailed at Newport Crown Court on Thursday after admitting assault occasioning actual bodily harm and assault by beating.
Skinner, of Bala Road in Cardiff , had been given a lift to watch a rugby game by his former partner, Sally Gwilliam, with his son on November 19.
After talking about Miss Gwilliam’s new partner, the court was told the defendant became angry and repeatedly called her a "lying b***h", threatened to ruin her and “take her down”.
A week later, on November 26, the defendant turned up drunk at his former partner’s home at around 9.40pm where she was with her three children.
Mike Hammett, prosecuting, said: “She heard a car pull up. Believing it to be her current partner she opened the front door.
“She told him he wasn’t coming into the house. He ignored her and pushed past her.”
He then pushed his former partner onto the sofa before grabbing her by the throat when he began to throttle her, causing her to scream.
Mr Hammett said: “She was struggling to breathe. As this was going on her 17-year-old daughter came downstairs.
“She had been brought down by the sounds of her mother’s screams.”
The court heard Miss Gwilliam was so starved of oxygen that her face began to turn blue before she managed to flee the house to try and get help while Skinner assaulted her daughter after she came to try and help her mum.
The defendant later told police “I kicked off big style” and “I’m not sorry for what I’ve done – she f****** deserved it”.
When shown images of Miss Gwilliam’s injuries by police he began to cry.
Summarising Miss Gwilliam’s victim impact statement, Mr Hammett said she had been left too nervous to be alone, too frightened to go out, and was struggling to sleep due to flashbacks.
The statement read: “I still can’t believe it happened. I don’t want my girls to grow up thinking it’s okay to be hit my a man.
“I don’t want my son to grow up thinking it’s okay to hit a woman.”
Punched to jaw and head
Skinner was told the offences were aggravated by the fact they took place in a home, they were in the presence of others and carried out while under the influence of alcohol, and were also aggravated by the defendant’s previous caution for violence in a domestic setting.
David Pinnell, defending, said Skinner was struggling to cope with the breakdown of the relationship and he had lost a great deal.
Skinner pleaded guilty at the first crown court hearing on January 4 to assault, occasioning actual bodily harm, against Miss Gwilliam, and assault by beating against her daughter.
A charge of threat to kill would lie on file, the court heard.
Skinner was sentenced to 18 months for assault occasioning actual bodily harm and two months for assault by beating to be served concurrently.
A restraining order was also put in place to prevent the defendant contacting his former partner, her daughter, or going within 100m of their home for five years.
Judge Daniel Williams said: “There was an element of premeditation – you threatened her the previous weekend. You had threatened her the previous week because you couldn’t come to terms with her moving on with her life.
“You pushed her onto the sofa and then you grabbed her by the throat and threatened to kill her. You punched her to the jaw and the head about three times.”
He said the offending was so serious that “only a sentence of immediate imprisonment can be justified for it”.
“You were arrested, you were interviewed and, when you were in a position to admit what you had done, you remained tight-lipped. There was some self pity between that interview and a second interview when you cried before resuming your 'no comment' interviews.
“Following your arrest you indicated that Miss Gwilliam deserved the violence.”
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