Attacked over vote

A MAN beat his girlfriend, threatened to kill her and set her clothes alight after she voted Labour.

Robert Cochrane, 36, attacked Misty Greenwood at 2.30am on June 10 before saying: “That’s what you get for voting Labour.”

He trashed her home near Blackburn, Lancs, in a drunken rage as she ran to a pal’s house in her nightie.

Cochrane pleaded guilty at Burnley Crown Court to battery, criminal damage and arson and was jailed for nine months.