Jail for Black Country thug who stamped on ex-partner
An ‘immature’ man who kicked and stamped on his former partner while asking ‘why don’t you love me?’ is starting a two-year jail sentence today.
Bradley Robertson could not accept that the seven-month relationship had ended more than six months earlier, a judge heard.
The 22-year-old had ‘blackmailed’ her into withdrawing earlier complaints about his behaviour by threatening suicide, Wolverhampton Crown Court was told.
A restraining order was issued in December banning him from having any contact with the woman but he messaged her several times, culminating in January with a warning that if she contacted the police he would wreck her car, said Mr Edward Soulsby, prosecuting.
She changed her phone number in the hope of being left alone but saw him while out with a friend in a bar from which the defendant was banned from entering
He was ejected when he tried to get to her on February 3.
Grabbed and punched
But he kicked open the back door of her Black Country home at 2.30 the next morning, pushed her into the living room where he grabbed her round the throat and threw her against a wall before punching her in the face, continued the prosecutor.
She and her friend managed to bundle him out of the front door but he came back into the property through the rear entrance that had been kicked off its hinges.
Mr Soulsby said: “He attacked his former partner again, stamped on her face as she lay on the floor before stepping back, taking a short run-up and kicking her in the ribs while he kept asking why she did not love him.”
The two women managed to throw him out of the property again and he was arrested soon afterwards.
Mr Stephen Cadwaladr, defending, said: “He is an immature young man and getting into a relationship with ups and downs was a recipe for disaster. The problem was his inability to accept it was over.”
Roofer Robertson from Bloomfield Street North, Halesowen, pleaded guilty to assault and repeatedly breaching a restraining order.
He was locked up by Judge James Burbidge QC, who said: “You are much less mature than your chronological age would suggest.
"You asked her why she did not love you while attacking her and the answer should have been as clear as clear to you.”
