A “misogynistic” Carlisle man who attacked his partner while high on alcohol and cocaine has been given a 20-month jail term.
Kenneth David Pointon, 30, was downstairs and his girlfriend upstairs at her city home on October 18.
Pointon then ran upstairs amid an argument, prompting his fearful partner to try and use a mattress as a makeshift barrier.
However, he punched the woman to her face and then her arms as she desperately tried to defend herself, before grabbing her throat and squeezing.
“I could not breathe at all and started to think I was going to die,” she told police.
Pointon, of Stockwell Road, Carlisle, later confessed to downing 10 pints and “a lot of cocaine” before the incident. He then looked into her eyes and “all of a sudden” let go, Carlisle Crown Court was told today.
The woman suffered swelling and bruising to her face and arm.
Scaffolder Pointon admitted assault, occasioning actual bodily harm, was said to have expressed remorse and acknowledged a link – between his use of alcohol and cocaine, and violence – which he wished to break.
But Judge Peter Davies, passing sentence, spoke of his “atrocious” record of previous domestic crimes against different female partners, a poor response to past supervision and highlighted a probation report had described him as a misogynist.
“That tells me not only you don’t like women and you assault women – and it’s easy to assault women – but you never assault men, do you? Which tells me you are a bit of a coward, really,” said Judge Davies.
“This was a sustained, frightening assault by a young man much more physically capable than she was, in her own home.”
Pointon,, was jailed for 20 months, and banned from communicating with the woman in any way, or and going near home or work addresses, for seven years.
