A man has been jailed for stabbing, strangling and head-butting a woman who later told police he was an animal.
The woman made disclosures about 28-year-old Louis Pattinson’s domestic violence in her Cleator Moor home as she nervously attended a police station on February 14.
She disclosed to a female officer that she acted in self-defence as Pattinson strangled her three times during an incident two days earlier.
The woman sought to defend herself by using a kitchen knife she kept hidden nearby, injuring Pattinson’s hands. But Carlisle Crown Court heard he then disarmed her before stabbing her twice, to the back and leg.
She suffered wounds which were seemingly starting to heal, without medical treatment, at that stage. But when the officer saw other bruises, the woman disclosed she would be thrown about, kicked and punched.
She described Pattinson as a panther who would turn up at any time. “She said he would be terrifying to any woman,” prosecutor Dan Bramhall told the court.
The woman would also later describe Pattinson as an animal during further disclosures later that month about another incident in which Pattinson dragged the woman from a sofa before head-butting her.
The terrified woman had made no formal complaints about Pattinson’s violence. But after a trial he was convicted of non-fatal strangulation, wounding and assault by beating after a jury heard evidence.
As Pattinson was sentenced today, a judge heard he had previous convictions for assaults on his sister, by holding her by the throat and kicking her; on his mother, by repeatedly stamping on her head and threatening to kill her; and also the same partner.
Pattinson, of Howe Street, Carlisle, was jailed for 46 months and banned from contacting the woman.
