Twisted Billy Walsh, 30, was caged for three years after subjecting the schoolgirl to the several-hour ordeal last December.
He was arrested when his brave victim – who cannot be named for legal reasons – reported him to cops after the attack in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
The fiend had been in a relationship with the teen for over a year before learning that she planned to flee to a friend's house in Blackpool to get away from him.
He then subjected her to a terrifying night of violence, in which he strangled her, pulled her hear, doused her in lighter fluid, and threatened to set her alight.
Sentencing Walsh at Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester, Judge Bernadette Baxter said: "You began a relationship when you were 30 with a much younger girl who was aged 17 and you knew her to be young and vulnerable as she was in care.
"You behaved in a controlling and coercive way towards her because you were jealous.
“That behaviour included violence such as striking her, pulling her hair, hitting her and on one specific indecent you repeatedly assaulted her causing her actual bodily harm by striking her, slapping, hitting and punching her.
“In one sustained assault over a period of hours,you bit her nose, poured a drink over her, strangled her, hit her and doused her in lighter fuel and threatened to set her alight.
This occurred over a period of hours and one can only imagine this must have been a terrifying ordeal for her.
Defence lawyer Patrick Williamson added; "The victim describes a Jekyll and Hyde personality where he would become physically and mentally abusive.
"But although the relationship gas come to an end she has still been in contact with the defendant through letter during his remand.
"There is a risk of further harm. The psychology report has described him as a volatile person and extremely immature when faced with difficulties.
"The defendant must go to custody for some period of time. There was a degree of coercion and control."
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