‘Caveman’ jailed for attack on partner

COURT HEARS OF ‘INHUMAN’ ASSAULT ON VICTIM

AMAN who assaulted his partner in a “sickening incident” caught on CCTV “resembled a caveman” a Judge said.

Glynn David Lewis, 45, (right) pleaded guilty to committing common assault against Delyth Anne Hartleb in Bangor.

A judge at Caernarfon Crown Court, who branded the attack “inhuman” jailed him for four months.

Prosecutor Simon Rogers told the court police received a call in the early hours of January 11 from a woman calling herself

Nicola. She said she had harmed her wrists. A male was sobbing in the background.

Police arrived at the flat in Park Street in Bangor.

The defendant was lying on a mattress and there was dried blood on the mattress and wall. He said he had not been with the victim and became verbally abusive to officers.

The victim wasn’t there but police found her in The Late Shop on Holyhead Road in Bangor. She had injuries and a black eye.

She was taken to hospital but refused to make a statement.

However, police investigated and found CCTV footage showing the defendant Lewis dragging the complainant back by her hair and into the flat.

At one point during the “prolonged” incident the victim tries to get her foot around the rail of the banister to stop herself being dragged into the flat.

Dafydd Roberts, defending, accepted his client’s criminal record is “appalling” – with 93 convictions for 198 offences – but his last conviction for assault was in 2007.

He said Lewis said Ms Hartleb had threatening to harm herself and he did want her to leave. But he accepts by his guilty plea that what he did was unlawful. The relationship is now over.

The judge His Honour Niclas Parry condemned his behaviour as “inhuman”.

He told Lewis, who was on a video link from custody: “What I have just witnessed on that

CCTV, Mr Glynn Lewis, was sickening. It was inhuman behaviour.

“You resembled caveman dragging a woman along the floor the hair, pulling her by whole weight when she was clearly distressed and desperate to get away from you.”

The judge added: “It was a quite sickening incident against a vulnerable victim because of her circumstances.” The judge also cast doubt on whether his sentencing guidelines were adequate for a case such as this of domestic violence. But he jailed Lewis, of Park Street, Bangor, for four months.