Thugs jailed for brutal attacks on women
THREE thugs from Hyndburn are this week beginning jail sentences for brutal attacks on women.
Anthony Jordan, David Cuthbertson and Aaron Newton are all behind bars over unrelated incidents of domestic violence which left their victims with shocking injuries.
Anthony Jordan, of Knowlmere Street in Accrington, broke the arm of his partner – who is registered blind – after pushing her across a backyard.
Meanwhile, David Cuthbertson, of Lynwood Road, Accrington, kicked his wife in the head after a furious row before accidentally hitting her with his car as he performed a dangerous 360-degree spin.
And Aaron Newton, of Fountains Way in Oswaldtwistle, was arrested for two assaults on his ex partner in which he pulled out a clump of hair from her head at her home. Hyndburn councillor Munsif Dad, an ambassador for the White Ribbon campaign, a group working to end violence against women, said: “I commend the victims who have gone through the court process.
“We need to make sure these people get the appropriate sentences to discourage others and let them know this is not acceptable.”
ATHUG who broke the arm of his registered blind partner who suffers from Huntington’s disease has been jailed.
Anthony Jordan attacked the victim, 46, at his home on Knowlmere Street in Accrington after she tried to leave when he became abusive.
He grabbed his partner by the throat and squeezed his hands hard around her neck saying ‘I will ******* kill you, you bitch’.
Jordan, 41, then punched her to the back of her head before pushing her across the backyard causing her to hit a wall and break her upper right arm. He pleaded guilty at Burnley Crown Court to GBH and was jailed for 18 months and given a five-year restraining order.
Stephen Parker, prosecuting, said the victim was registered blind after being born with an eye defect that has degenerated throughout her life.
The court heard how the couple had been out drinking in Accrington town centre on June 3 this year and returned to Jordan’s home. Mr Parker said after 30 minutes the ‘atmosphere changed for no apparent reason’ and Jordan ‘started running his mouth off’ and insulted the victim.
The prosecutor said when the victim said she was not putting up with that and started to leave, Jordan chased after her and grabbed her by the throat. The court heard how she was ‘struggling to breathe’ and a neighbour heard her shouting ‘help me, help me’.
Jordan replied saying ‘I will put you in ******* Greenbank [police station]’. When the victim pleaded with Jordan saying ‘stop it, you’re killing me’ he said ‘I ******* will kill you, you ******* bitch’.
Mr Parker said the victim managed to escape, but when she got to the back door Jordan punched her to the back of the head and then pushed her with such force that she felt like she was ‘going to come off her feet’.
She then hit a wall, fracturing her arm and sat on the floor for several minutes before getting up and sitting on a garden chair. When Jordan approached her she slapped him to the face before he went back inside the house, the court was told. Mr Parker said the victim was taken to hospital and her arm was placed in a sling ‘for some time’ but she didn’t need surgery. He told the court she was a ‘vulnerable’ victim and it was a ‘sustained and repeated assault’.
Jordan had attacked two other partners and had previously been given a suspended jail sentence, the court was told.
Defence barrister Darren Lee-Smith said it was a ‘very unpleasant incident’. He told the court that Jordan, who has spent over nine weeks on remand in custody, pleaded guilty at the first opportunity and there was no evidence of any longlasting injuries.
Mr Lee-Smith said: “On the night of the offence both parties were intoxicated but for the defendant that’s a long term issue he would like addressing. He now accepts the relationship is finally at an end.”
The court heard how Jordan had previously been convicted of attack- ing two other partners in 2007 and 2010 and was given a suspended jail sentence with a domestic violence programme.
Recorder Simon Berkson said that programme ‘clearly didn’t work’ and in the latest incident he had caused ‘really serious harm’ to his partner.
Sentencing, he said: “This is against a background of somebody who has been in trouble before for violence towards a partner. Only an immediate custodial sentence is appropriate for the nature of the violence in this case.