5 years for yob who killed partner by throwing a phone at her neck
Paul Jeeves
A SERIAL domestic abuser was jailed for five years yesterday for killing his girlfriend by hurling a mobile phone at her neck.
Drunken Lloyd Birkby went berserk on a night out meant to rekindle his troubled relationship with Levi Ogden, 26.
Levi – mother of his two children – had posted happy images of them both on Facebook just hours before, captioned: “Date night. First one in forever.”
The pair had gone on a pub crawl but a row erupted and Birkby picked up a phone lying in the street and threw it at her with force from about 6ft away.
Levi collapsed in Halifax, West Yorkshire, on November 3.
She ruptured blood vessels in her neck by twisting away from the impact. This caused a brain bleed and cardiac arrest.
Birkby then shoved her friend Courtney Bland to the ground and walked off.
The thug, 27, was jailed after admitting manslaughter but denying murder at Leeds Crown Court.
He had previously served jail time for battery and police
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had been called to the couple’s home around 20 times.
Judge Geoffrey Mason QC told him: “You will have to carry with you the knowledge that you have deprived the children of their mother.”
A friend of Levi’s said: “Lloyd had a dreadful temper but she still loved him. They split up a couple of times before because of his violence. That said: “I think I was slightly channelling DCI Kate Fleming.
“There’s something so calmly forensic about the way she does it. It’s really unemotional, really calm, really quiet, but you just know she’s done all her homework.
“It was just a question of making sure we understood the full narrative of what he was able to tell us.” night was supposed to be another attempt to give their relationship a go.”
Stephen Wood QC, defending, said Birkby’s mental age was about 11 and the judge found that he was in the “lower culpability range” because of it.
“He has a history of pushing, shoving and spitting at his victim and throwing objects at his victims,” MrWood added.