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ACONTROLLING bully punched and strangled his partner during four horrendous attacks after she told him she wanted to end their relationship.
On one occasion he dragged her back into the house by her hair in front of onlookers.
Jason May, 35, attacked his now exgirlfriend at her home in Abertillery throughout the course of their relationship between 2021 and 2022.
A sentencing hearing was told one of the attacks resulted in the victim falling on top of a glass table, causing it to smash.
Prosecutor Alex Greenwood said the first assault took place on November 8, 2021, when the couple were arguing in bed. May was screaming and got on top of the victim before headbutting her.
She described hearing a noise that sounded like her nose breaking. She later went to a garage and was asked by staff if she needed help, and she realised she was bleeding, had two black eyes and was crying.
Police were called to the house, but May was present when the victim was questioned and she said she had been headbutted by the dog.
The second assault took place on January 10 last year, when the victim told May she wanted him to move out. She ran out of the door when the defendant reacted badly and he chased her, shouting: “Get back in the f ****** house”. He grabbed her by the hair and threw her onto a bank, causing her hair extensions to be ripped out and leaving a bald patch.
May continued to hold her by the hair and dragged her back into the house. Once inside, he shouted at her “I have given up everything for you” and she told him she was “broken” and he should leave.
The defendant hit her to the face. Police attended, but he told the victim to shut the door and said “Everyone is entitled to an argument”.
The third assault took place on February 23 last year, when the defendant strangled the victim while she was in bed before picking up a ceramic pot and throwing it at her.
She attended Grange University Hospital, in Cwmbran, to receive treatment for a fractured wrist.
On March 14 last year the victim arranged to go for a drink with a friend. But while she was out, May phoned her and screamed at her, telling her he had been waiting two hours for her to call. He turned up at the pub and screamed at her, before taking the victim’s phone and smashing it in front of the pub.
The final assault took place days later in the early hours of March 16, when the victim found messages from other women on May’s phone.
She woke him up and he claimed the accusations were “all lies” but the victim told him to leave.
The defendant kicked the bedroom door and shouted “Come back here”.
Mr Greenwood said May pushed the victim on the bed and punched her to the left eye. The defendant looked “panicked” and told her to clean up before putting his hand around her throat and strangling her.
May let go but “backhanded” her to her face. He grabbed hold of the victim’s hair and dragged her.
She ran to a window, and screamed for help. The defendant then hit or pushed the victim, causing her to fall onto a glass table, which smashed underneath her, and closed the window. May then left.
May, now of Forest Edge, Drybrook, Gloucestershire, was arrested and later pleaded guilty to four counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and two counts of criminal damage. He had nine previous convictions related to drugs.
He was sentenced to 45 months’ imprisonment.
He was also made subject to a restraining order preventing him from contacting the victim for five years.