A violent abuser beat his terrified girlfriend while she believed she was in the middle of having a miscarriage.
Jack Samuel, 23, viciously attacked his pregnant girlfriend repeatedly over a period of six hours after picking her up from the Reminisce Festival in St Helens last September.
Five months later, while under investigation for the assaults, he imprisoned another woman in a Birkenhead hotel and subjected her to "the worst two hours of (her) life", punching and kicking her, and forcing his hand into her mouth when she tried to scream for help.
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The first attack occurred on September 11 2022, after the female victim had begun suffering abdominal pains and bleeding in the middle of the music festival in Sherdley Park. She believed she was suffering a miscarriage, and Samuel was called to take her to his family home in Runcorn.
At around 6am, the woman was woken up by an enraged Samuel, who had checked her mobile phone and believed she was cheating on him. At Liverpool Crown Court on Friday, July 7, prosecutor Simon Mintz said: "He punched her on the side of her head. She tried to leave the address, but he warned her if she tried to leave he would kick her down the stairs.
"Over the next few hours the defendant repeatedly assaulted her, punching her and kicking her."
The woman ran downstairs and tried to leave, but Samuel grabbed her hair and dragged her back inside. This was witnessed by the 23-year-old's parents, who were alerted to the house's doorbell camera, and they phoned their son and ordered him to leave the woman alone.
Samuel and the woman then left the house and walked to the nearby Co-Op, where they met Samuel's sister. She noticed the woman's injuries and asked if they had been caused by her brother, but the woman denied this due to fear of Samuel. The pair continued to East Runcorn Station and Samuel attacked the woman again, punching her face as they walked along Bridgewater Canal.
They boarded a train and arrived at Chester Station at 3.20pm, where a member of staff noticed the woman's injuries and called the police.
Mr Mintz said: "She was crying, trembling, with a highly bruised face and blood-stained clothing." Samuel initially denied assault, and claimed she had suffered the injuries at the Reminisce Festival.
On February 18 2023, while under investigation for the attacks, Samuel brutally assaulted another woman who had broken up with him just five days earlier.
The pair had formed a relationship in September 2022, but a court heard Samuel "quickly became jealous and controlling, making her contact him on Facetime to show she was not with anyone else, monitoring her social media and changing her passwords." When she broke up with him in February 2023, he bombarded her with text messages and phonecalls, and she eventually agreed to meet with him in a public place.
However, Samuel arrived in a car being driven by a friend, and ordered the woman inside. He began to verbally abuse her, and when she attempted to exit the car he pushed her back inside, armed with a baseball bat and black gloves.
He ordered his friend to drive them to the nearby Travelodge Bromborough, where they checked into a room.
Mr Mintz said: "Once in the room, the defendant didn't allow her to speak, and shouted at her, claiming to have slept with other women in retribution. He said 'I'm not going to touch you if you're honest'. He then forced her against the wall and punched her on the nose, causing her to bleed profusely.
"He punched her repeatedly... soon her face was covered in blood."
The woman tried to crawl to the door, but Samuel blocked her way, took her phone and punched her again. He continued to attack her in between snorting cocaine and drinking lager, and forced his hand into her mouth when she tried to scream for help. He also forced her to take off her bloodied clothes.
At around 00.15am he told her to buy him beer and cigarettes, and she took the opportunity to get help from hotel reception staff.
Mr Mintz said: "They described her as looking fearful, crying, claiming her boyfriend had beaten her up. She described the experience as 'the worst two hours of my life'."
Samuel, of Actons Wood Lane, Runcorn, pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm and battery relating to the first woman, and wounding, and coercive and controlling behaviour in relation to the second.
Daniel Harman, defending, said: "There's not a shard of mitigation to be had in their defence of these offences. They were nasty, they were mean-spirited, and they were wholly reprehensible." However, he added Samuel had shown "a level of remorse and determination to change".
Samuel said: "Alcohol and drugs took over. I can't believe what I have actually done. I'm so sorry. I was a nasty person who had a different outlook on life. I'm disgusted with myself. I know it's wrong."
But Judge Denis Watson KC said his remorse was "difficult to accept".
He said: "On September 11 (the first victim) suffered a six hour ordeal at your hands.
"You began by punching her to her head. When you realised that she wanted to leave, you threatened her that if she did you would kick her downstairs - her punishment would be worse. You repeatedly punched and kicked her, hitting her hard in the face, getting on top of her and punishing her repeatedly, threatening to snap her jaw.
"Your target of her face was a deliberate step design to distort her face, to humiliate her so she would be embarrassed by her looks. It was a particularly spiteful attack."
He added: "While under investigation you formed a relationship with another woman who had the misfortune to meet you. Your relationship was quickly characterised by your jealousy.... The only surprise is the relationship lasted until February before she was finally at her wits' end.
"Within days you were demanding to see her... Unfortunately she wasn't to know that you were to come to that meeting armed and ready to assert control all over again. You had a bat and gloves with you. Small wonder she felt compelled to get into the car with you, and you took her to a nearby hotel, where there began for her a prolonged ordeal lasting two hours or so.
"In the course that that you forced her against a wall, punched her hard to the nose, punched her repeatedly to the head with both fists, knocked her onto the bed, where you carried on punching her."
He sentenced Samuel to a total of three years and nine months in prison.
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