Thug bit and punched his pregnant girlfriend
AVALIUM-FUELLED thug who punched his pregnant partner and ‘sank his teeth’ into her elbow has been jailed.
Shane Emmett Smith ‘threw her to the floor’ and then ‘bit her right elbow, sinking his teeth into her skin’.
The victim was forced to flee her home on Fairfield Avenue in Waterfoot and seek refuge with a neighbour.
When 31-year-old Smith was arrested he managed to conceal a steak knife down his trousers and then armed himself with it in the police van after freeing himself from the cuffs, Burnley Crown Court heard.
He then ‘smeared excrement’ over his police custody cell requiring specialist cleaners to sanitise it. Smith, of Parkinson Street, Haslingden, pleaded guilty to possessing a bladed article, criminal damage and common assault and was jailed for 186 days.
AVAL IUMFUELLED thug who punched his pregnant partner and ‘sank his teeth’ into her elbow has been jailed.
Shane Emmett Smith assaulted the victim while she was at home and forced her to flee the property on Fairfield Avenue in Waterfoot and seek refuge with a neighbour.
When the 31-year-old was arrested he managed to conceal a steak knife down his trousers and then armed himself with it in the police van after freeing himself from the cuffs, Burnley Crown Court heard.
He then ‘smeared excrement’ over his police custody cell requiring specialist cleaners to sanitise it.
Smith, of Parkinson Street, Haslingden, pleaded guilty to possessing a bladed article, criminal damage and common assault and was jailed for 186 days.
Stephen Parker, prosecuting, told the court how Smith entered his partner’s house on July 19 this year ‘as she saw him she could tell that he was under the influence of something’.
When Smith told his 15-week pregnant partner that he had taken valium she told him to leave but he refused and ‘started shouting aggressively towards her.’
The court heard he started shouting louder and began banging on a kitchen door before the victim ‘barricaded herself in to get away for the defendant’.
Mr Parker said Smith eventually managed to get into the kitchen and ‘overpowered her’ when she tried to push him away.
He told the court that he ‘threw her to the floor’ and then ‘bit her right elbow, sinking his teeth into her skin’.
The victim then ran out of a back door and was chased down the street by Smith who ‘kicked her to the back of the leg causing her to stumble’.
Mr Parker said she managed to get into a neighbour’s house and was ‘distressed and crying’ before Smith returned to his partner’s property.
He was heard ‘crashing, banging and shouting’ and caused £1,100 worth of damage before going round to the neighbour’s house.
When police arrived on the street he was ‘still acting aggressively’ and ‘threatened to assault and spit at them’.
Mr Parker said: “He was placed in handcuffs but he managed to slip those in the back of the police van on the way to the station and produced a knife that had been down the front of his trousers.
“It had not been discovered by the police when they presumably per- formed an initial search when putting on the handcuffs.
“He then smeared excrement on the cell wall of the police station and required specialist cleaners to come and sanitise the cell.”