Dog-attack brute in threat to bomb house

THUG BATTERED EX-GIRLFRIEND’S PET DURING CAMPAIGN OF VIOLENCE

A VICIOUS bully who repeatedly punched his ex-girlfriend’s dog and threatened to petrol bomb her house has been jailed.

Dale Stanley left his former partner feeling ‘numb’ and ‘terrified’ following two violent ordeals.

The victim woke to find Stanley, 25, in her bedroom holding a knife in the early hours of April 11. She said he was sitting on a stool staring at her.

When the victim questioned him and tried to take the blade, he ‘went mental’ and cut her leg during a tussle.

Bolton Crown Court heard how she threw the knife out of the bedroom window and Stanley, of Glebe Street, Leigh, left. He returned three days later to subject her to more terrifying abuse.

Craig MacGregor, prosecuting, said Stanley left her house at 9pm on April 14.

She went to sleep and was woken up by banging on the front door at around 5am.

Stanley ran upstairs and started smashing up her sunbed.

Stanley then picked her dog up by the neck and started punching it ‘all over.’ The victim was screaming and managed to pull the dog from his grip and it ran downstairs. As she went after the animal, she felt a blow to her back.

She slid down the stairs and hit her head at the bottom, knocking her unconscious. When she woke, Stanley was standing over her holding a hammer. He threatened to hit her with it but she managed to escape out of the front door.

Stanley, who has 11 previous convictions, then threw the hammer through the living room window. He picked up a bike and threw that too.

Later that night, he phoned her and told her he would petrol bomb her and her mother’s houses. In a victim impact statement, she said she thought he was ‘more than capable’ of carrying out the attack. She said: “I just feel numb. I am terrified of him and I need it to stop”. Rachel Faux, defending, said Stanley wishes to make a fresh start with his life.

She said: “He is in a frame of mind where he does wish to comply. The public interest benefits him more than incarcerating him for a long period where he is unable to learn.” Stanley pleaded guilty to threatening to damage or destroy property, criminal damage and two counts of assault by beating. He also breached a community order from a previous offence of being in possession of class A drugs with intent to supply. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail and handed a five-year restraining order.

I am terrified of him and I need it to stop

Dale Stanley’s victim