‘Bully’ grabbed mum by throat as children watched

before going downstairs with her mobile phone.

She followed, trying to get it back from him and in the utility room he threw her against a glass door before leaving. She struck her head causing a cut above her eyebrow which began to bleed.

A neighbour had heard the upset in the house and contacted police. Officers arrived to find her bleeding and bruised with her children in tears.

Mr Thomas said Hanson received 15 months suspended for two years in February for the assault on a friend he had been drinking with who struck his head on the ground, suffering a fractured skull. Fiona Clancy, representing Hanson, said he was extremely disappointed that he had acted as he had so soon after being given a chance; he realised his difficulties stemmed from alcohol and he believed seeing domestic violence when he was a child himself.

He was motivated to change for the future. Hanson, 29, of Carr Street, Liversedge was found guilty at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court of assault and admitted harassment and criminal damage.

Jailing him for a total of 33 months, including a period from the suspended sentence, Judge Robin Mairs said: “This was a cowardly, bullying, brutal attack on a young woman at her home in front of children.

“Her physical injuries will heal, the emotional ones will take considerably longer.”

The children were distressed and one was shouting at him to ‘leave mummy alone’