A violent boyfriend attacked his partner with a can of air freshener and threatened to slash her so she wouldn't get another partner after she dumped him.
Johnny McRae had been in an on-off relationship with the victim for around three years and she said he had been controlling and violent. She ended it in October 2018 but continued to have issues with him turning up at her home and making threats.
Newcastle Crown Court that in January 2019, she returned home to find him with a brick and he said she was lucky she returned as he was going to put her window out.
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She went to ring the police but he grabbed her phone then refused to leave her home until the following morning, stealing her phone. McRae then attended on further occasions, kicking and damaging her door and dragging a sofa outside, saying it was his.
He then hit her on the head with a can of air freshener and kicked her leg, causing bruising and soft tissue injuries and a bump to her head. The victim said she feared for her life after that attack on January 12.
Around a year later he assaulted her again. Sentencing him, Judge Robert Spragg said: "She made the foolish decision to visit you because you were upset.
"Everything was fine to start off with but as you began to drink your mood changed and you assaulted her. She hit her head on the floor and she was thrown on a coffee table."
To try to keep the peace, she stayed and the next morning McRae was apologetic and crying. The woman was left with extensive bruising to various parts of her body and said she wants him out of her life.
McRae, 30, of Belgrave Terrace, South Shields, pleaded guilty to harassment, theft of her phone, criminal damage, two counts of common assault and using threats to gain entry. He was sentenced to 20 months suspended for two years with a six month curfew, an exclusion requirement and he must do a building better relationships course and pay £500 compensation.
He will also be subject to a ten year restraining order.
The court heard he has stayed out of trouble in the two years since and is now in work.
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