AN alcohol-fuelled man who broke his partner’s wrist after picking her up and throwing her in her own home has received a suspended jail sentence.
Brian Thomas, 42, admitted assaulting the mother-of-two in Bournemouth after violence flared in the early hours of November 13 last year.
Prosecuting at Bournemouth Crown Court, Carolyn Branford-Wood said Thomas’s victim had been in her kitchen when she was attacked, while her two children slept in the property.
She added: “He came in and became aggressive, pushing her forcefully a number of times. She was unable to stop him.
“He became really intimidating, with an angry look on his face which scared her.
“She tried to fight back, biting Thomas on the arm to get him off but he picked her up and threw her to the floor.
“When she landed she felt pain in her left wrist, ribs, shoulder and back,” she told the court.
An ambulance was called and the woman was taken to Bournemouth Hospital for treatment. She was in plaster until December 23.
In Thomas’s defence, the court heard that he couldn’t remember the assault because of the amount of alcohol he had consumed.
The recovering alcoholic and drug addict, who now helps rehabilitate other drug users, accepted that his behaviour had been “entirely over the top.”
Imposing an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, Judge Samuel Wiggs told Thomas from Upper Tulse Hill, Brixton, London, that the offence had been “very unpleasant.”
Thomas will be supervised for two years and must take part in alcohol treatment and domestic abuse programmes.
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