Horrifying pictures show the injuries suffered by a domestic violence victim after she was attacked by her alcoholic partner who was drinking 20 pints a day.
Vicious George Osborne, 24, "pulverised" Judith Bevan, fracturing ribs and her thyroid cartilage in her throat, Gloucester Crown Court was told.
In a fit of rage, he told her: "You didn't look like that when I left you."
Towards the end of the relationship Ms Bevan said she was 'walking on eggshells' as Osborne had begun controlling her life, Gloucestershire Live reports.
Jailing Osborne for 16 months, Judge Timothy Rose said: "You left her body bloodied and bruised all over. She had a cut lip and severe black eyes and a broken nose.
"She also had a large hematoma swelling on her skull."
Osborne, from Gloucester, pleaded guilty to assaulting Ms Bevan causing her actual bodily harm in Cheltenham, on February 27 last year.
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But he claimed he had not caused the full extent of her injuries – meaning a 'trial of issue' was held this week.
Pictures of Ms Bevan's injuries were released after the hearing, with her consent.
Prosecutor Susan Cavender said the couple had met at a residential alcohol rehabilitation unit at the end of 2018 and had been together for a couple of months.
She told the court that in the evening they both started drinking again when he attacked her.
She said: “His whole body was on top of me. He applied such force that he fractured my throat. I told him I couldn’t breathe and blanked out. When I came round he continued to beat me up.
“He smashed my head and grabbed my hair and swung me around all over the place. He kicked me in the face, in my chest and stomach. I fell to the floor and my nose was broken. I was bleeding from my nose and lips.
“He continued to kick me in the head and my ribs were aching.
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"When he finally went I was completely dazed and lay on the sofa for 10 minutes.
“The pain was so bad I decided to go to Tesco to get some whisky to numb the pain.”
Ms Cavender told the court that Emma Nogle, a sales assistant at the store, saw Ms Bevan come in and she asked her about her facial injuries. Ms Bevan revealed that she had just been attacked.
“A clump of her hair was still clinging to the woman’s leggings,” said Ms Cavender.
The court was told that the sales assistant informed her supervisor and the police were called.
Sarah Jenkins, defending, said: “Osborne admits assaulting the woman, but not to that extent. He was surprised when she sent him a picture of herself and he responded ‘you were not like that when I left you’.”
The judge interjected: “The implication being that somebody else beat her up in the 40 minutes after he left her to when she was witnessed by the sales assistant at Tesco?"
Ms Bevan said that she had been left with post traumatic stress and panic attacks.
Dr Robert Stacey, who was on duty at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital A&E when Ms Bevan was admitted, said: “She was showing signs of being assaulted. She had a very bruised face, severe bruising to her eyes and cheeks.
"She had cuts to her face and bruising all over her body. Her thyroid cartilage had been fractured and she had a large hematoma on her skull."
The court was told that Ms Bevan described her own injuries as looking like an ‘elephant man’.
Judge Rose said to Osborne: “To be blunt you beat your victim up and you did so in a sustained and particularly violent way.
“Despite admitting your guilt, you rejected nearly all the evidence presented. In the process you obliged your victim to come to court and endure the process of giving evidence and being quite wrongly being blamed for the incident.
“Unfortunately when this incident occurred you both had slipped back into the consumption of alcohol, having originally met in a rehabilitation unit for the treatment of alcohol abuse.
“Your behaviour that day was no doubt affected by the alcohol you had consumed.
“You assaulted her in a thorough and brutal way. I have seen all the photographs. You used such force you fractured both sides of her thyroid cartilage.
“You pulverised her with punches and kicks, primarily to her face and body and fracturing her ribs.
"You left her body bloodied and bruised all over. She had a cut lip and severe black eyes and a broken nose. She also had a large hematoma swelling on her skull.
“This is a sustained and brutal attack to which you subjected her too. But that is not where it ended.
“You then, in the victim’s own words, continued 'ragging her around' by her hair to such an extent you pulled out a clump, which was observed by an alert shop assistant a short while later.
“You also lost your self control when you hurled her handbag across the room to empty its contents.
“This is an exceptionally serious matter.
“You are still drinking up to 40 units a day – some 20 pints of beer in your case – which is a massive consumption of alcohol by anybody’s standards.
“Your offending crosses the custody threshold and, as you pose a high risk if I were to sentence you to a community order, I have no choice but to impose an immediate prison sentence, which I am unable to suspend.”
The judge sentenced Osborne to a prison sentence for one year and four months and ordered that a £140 victim surcharge to be paid. He also imposed a five year restraining order for him not to contact his former partner.
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