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Frank Spencer, 34, who had smoked a crack pipe for “most of the day” and drank about forty-five yellow pills, held his victim after drugs all day and then kicked her out of the house.
Newcastle Crown Court heard that the 20-year-old had purple eyes, swollen face, bruises, abrasions and needed stitches for cuts when he pushed her against the glass.
Prosecutor Neil Pallister told the court that the couple ended up at Spencer’s home on Thelma Street, Sunderland, on May 19 and that violence erupted in the early morning after he “became angry and argued.”
Mr Pallister said: “She describes it in the face, he grabbed a lock of her hair and dragged her into the room yelling at her.
“He admits that he hit her by dragging her from room to room.
“In a moment, he dropped it, took a screwdriver and threatened it, pushing her.
“She remembers hitting her with her keys that were in a thong that he helps keep around her neck.”
The court heard that Spencer’s front window had been closed and that the damaged window had been left opposite to a wall of the room through the owner.
Mr Pallister added: “He pushed her backwards onto the pane of glass, causing her to fall into it. She received a cut to her back and shoulder blade and a cut to one of her fingers.”
The court heard that Spencer had taken the injured woman out of space and stopped through a police car that passed after officials saw that she was “covered in blood.”
Then the officials went to Spencer’s house.
Mr Pallister added: “Police saw blood in the bathroom, on the sofa near the living room window and on the floor in front of the defendant’s address.”
Spencer pleaded guilty to the unlawful injuries.
The victim, who admitted that he also “smoked” that day, said, “I’m surprised Frankie’s doing this to me.”
Judge Christopher Prince sentenced Spencer, who has been on pre-trial detention since the attack, to 12 months in prison, suspended for 18 months, with drug rehabilitation and program requirements, such as a lifetime ban order to separate him from the woman.
The opinion on it said the attack would have been “painful and painful,” but the public is larger in the long run through Spencer’s rehabilitation.
Gavin Doig, in defense, said Spencer had begun addressing his drug problems.