Man launched attack on mother of his son
A young man grabbed the mother of his little son by the throat, punched her, bit her on the chin and pulled up her T-shirt in a sustained attack lasting 30-45 minutes.
Dominic Allen, 24, of Leef Street, Moldgreen, was jailed for 50 months at Leeds Crown Court for offences including burglary as well as assaulting two police officers.
Prosecutor Chris Moran said the defendant had sent aggressive text messages and phone calls to his former partner at her home in the Huddersfield area on October 21 last year.
But this behaviour escalated later on in the evening when he climbed into her home while she was asleep. Mr Moran said: “She was at home at 12.20pm when she received messages and phone calls from Mr Allen making threats if she didn’t rekindle their relationship – ‘watch what happens if we don’t get back together.’
“At 2.30am she was woken by a loud bang. At first he thought it was her son but he had climbed up a drainpipe and gained access to her bedroom.
“He said he had only come to make sure there were no other males around.
“He pulled up her T-shirt and bit her on the chin leaving bite marks.
“He picked up their son and began punching her and bit her on the chin.
“During the attack he nearly dropped their son. It was an attack which caused her pain.
“Police officers found her upset and crying and she told them ‘I want him out of the house’.
“Officers arrested him and as he was being led away he called out her name saying: ‘I love you’.
Having initially pleaded not guilty, Allen decided he wanted to make a “clean breast of everything”.
He pleaded guilty to a number of offences including assaulting his partner occasioning actual bodily harm, burgling a friend’s home in School Street, Moldgreen, with an accomplice, Mark Cuniffe, 36, and battery of two police officers following another incident last year involving his former partner.
Aggravating features including carrying out the offence against his ex-partner while children were in the house and committing it while on bail and breaching a community order.
A restraining order is now in place preventing him contacting his ex-partner.
The court heard he has 14 convictions for 23 offences.
Cuniffe, a self-employed labourer and father, who has overcome a crack-cocaine habit, pleaded not guilty to the School Street burglary but was convicted on Thursday after a trial.
The defendant of Bellcote Drive, Moldgreen, was sentenced to 36 months imprisonment for the Category One offence which occurred on the night of May 18, 2018.
Judge Simon Phillips QC said the burglary took place at the home of the men’s friends, Johnnie Eastwood and Karen Roberts, while they were in the Ivy Green pub in Moldgreen.