I want to go to prison for killing you
Thug attacked ex with bat, then told police ‘I’m packed for jail’
AMAN who viciously attacked his expartner with a baseball bat in her own home and threatened to kill her has been branded a ‘dangerous offender’ and put behind bars.
Matthew Bonnell, 27, was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison and an extra three years on licence after admitting assaulting his former girlfriend at her house on Chester Street in Accrington.
Burnley Crown Court heard that Bonnell came to the victim’s house on October 10 carrying a suitcase.
After shutting the door on him she heard the defendant smashing the glass and shouting “get the police, I want to go to prison for killing you, I have been taking heroin all night because of you”.
The victim rang the police, but Bonnell then went upstairs and attacked her with a baseball bat.
She managed to run into a bedroom, and he followed her, shouting: “I have got petrol. I’m going to burn your house down.”
Bonnell, of Robert Street, Accrington, pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary and trespass, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm with intent to commit grievous bodily harm.
AMAN who viciously attacked his ex-partner with a baseball bat in her own home and threatened to kill her has been branded a ‘dangerous offender’ and put behind bars.
Matthew Bonnell, of Robert Street, Accrington, was sentenced to seven years, four months in prison and an extra three years on licence after admitting assaulting his former girlfriend at her house on Chester Street in Accrington.
He pleaded guilty at Burnley Crown Court to aggravated burglary and trespass, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm with intent to commit grievous bodily harm.
Prosecuting, Stephen Parker told the court that the victim and Bonnell, 27, had been in a relationship but this had ended after he had become ‘moody’ and ‘verbally aggressive’, and she alleged he had assaulted her.
But he continued to text and call her using withheld numbers, ringing her ‘a dozen times’ two days before the attack at her home.
The court heard that at 10am on October 10, Bonnell came to the victim’s house carrying a suitcase and appeared ‘drugged up’.
Mr Parker said: “She shut the door on him and went back upstairs thinking that was the end of it.
“She heard the defendant smashing the glass, she heard the defendant shouting ‘get the police, I want to go to prison for killing you, I have been taking heroin all night because of you’.”
The victim rang the police, but Bonnell then went upstairs and attacked her with a baseball bat, saying ‘I am going to kill you, you bitch’.
Mr Parker said: “She lifted her arm up and turned away and he began hitting her back with the baseball bat shouting ‘I ******* hate you’.
“She said she was crying and screaming at him saying she couldn’t breathe. He began kicking her to the stomach. She was shouting ‘please stop’.
“He did stop and go downstairs and began smashing property.”
After cutting his thumb on broken glass, Bonnell returned to his victim asking her to help him because he believed he had ‘cut an artery’.
But the court heard he then began to assault her again, kicking and hitting her as she lay on the floor.
Mr Parker told the court she managed to run into a bedroom and he followed her shouting: ‘I have got petrol I’m going to burn your house down’.
When police arrived, Bonnell told them ‘I’ll ******* do you, come on’, and he was immediately hit with PAVA spray, an incapacitating device.
He was restrained and arrested at the scene, and then asked police to col- lect his suitcase from an alley outside the house and told them ‘it’s got all my stuff ready for prison’.
Mr Parker said: “Police said as you went up the stairs it resembled a scene from a horror movie. The complainant had red marks on her back, lumps on her back and was sore all over her body.
“She said she was scared throughout the incident and she genuinely thought the point had come where the defendant may well kill her.”