Crack addict, 22, held ex-girlfriend prisoner in home

Woman, 19, found former partner in her bed

A crack addict throttled and kicked his girlfriend “like a boxing bag” and then imprisoned her inside her own home.

Tony Little, of Hythe Road in Willesborough, also “slapped” her “full pelt” in the face after breaking into her Ashford home.

The victim had found her thenex-partner sleeping in her bed.

He then woke up, became angry, and imprisoned her.

The 22- year- old punched, slapped and placed his hands around her throat making her feel “hot and sick”, a court heard.

Little stole her phone which she managed to retrieve, smashed up her home and launched another assault in the summer.

“He was slapping me around the face full pelt, kicking me like a boxing bag,” she described in one text read out in court.

Canterbury Crown Court heard Little was in the habit of stealing the mother of his child’s mobile.

Days before he turned up at the Albion Pub in Willesborough where the victim was relaxing with friends.

He grabbed her arm, began punching himself demanding money for drugs and took her mobile phone.

Her friend had to pay the addict £25 to return it.

On a separate occasion he would kick through her front door, smash her TV, and “took glasses from her face and bent them out of shape,” prosecutor Caroline Knight explained.

He stole her phone and fled the scene later to be arrested at another address.

Since on remand, Little’s barrister Kerry Waite claimed he had cleaned up his act and the 19-year-old victim has hopes for the relationship.

Judge Rupert Lowe heard Little was a “different man” after quitting the Class-A drug and hoped to become a stable father to the couple’s young child.

But the judge highlighted the court’s experience in domestic abuse cases, adding: “I think she may be naive, in her youth that things will be different in the future.”

‘He was slapping me around the face full pelt, kicking me like a boxing bag...’ - Tony Little’s victim