A thug dad-of-four was locked up for 21 months on July 12 after twice assaulting his former girlfriend, leaving her "petrified" to return house. Daniel Web page, 32, bit his sufferer twice on the face and even destroyed her fish tanks in a single incident, earlier than attacking her a number of months later by shoving her up in opposition to a brick wall.
The girl needed to go to Hull Royal Infirmary to obtain therapy after the primary assault and the second precipitated a extreme minimize to her head. In each situations, Web page breached bail circumstances, Hull Crown Court docket heard as sentencing was handed.
Web page, who has been on remand because the second assault on Could, had pleaded responsible in June at Beverley Magistrates Court docket to 2 counts of assault occasioning on precise bodily hurt and one rely of legal injury, Hull Dwell reviews.
The sufferer and Web page had been concerned in a relationship. Web page attended her tackle in Hull on January 20 after she had blocked him on social media.
As soon as inside her house, he started ingesting alcohol. He appeared aggressive to the sufferer and in an try and attempt calm him down, she tried to kiss and embrace him.
He pushed her away, inflicting her to fall and undergo mild bruising. Web page subsequently bit her twice on the face, inflicting swelling.
The pair ended up out on the street, the place she tried to movie the incident with a cell phone and he tried to kick her earlier than leaving her sight. She later returned to her home, solely to seek out that he had re-entered it and smashed her two fish tanks.
In consequence, all her fish died. Whereas the sufferer was on the cellphone with the police, he threw her throughout the room, inflicting her to land on a rabbit hutch and he then proceeded to punch and kick her a number of occasions.
On Could 4, whereas on bail for the earlier incident on the situation of not contacting the sufferer, Web page picked up gadgets from her tackle whereas she was out. This led to 2 cellphone calls between the 2 the place he was verbally abusive and at one level referred to as her a "fats c***".
He got here spherical to her tackle about half-hour later and she or he needed to jam her foot in opposition to the door to forestall him from coming into. To appease him, she agreed to stroll with him to the retailers. Throughout that stroll, in an alleyway, he shoved her in opposition to a brick wall which her head bounced off and he threatened to harm her once more.
In a sufferer affect assertion referring to the primary incident, the lady stated: "This incident has left me terrified to return to my house." She additionally acknowledged that Daniel Web page knew she suffered from melancholy and believed he focused the fish as a result of he knew how a lot she cared about them and the way they helped along with her psychological well being.
Cathy Kioko-Gilligan, mitigating, acknowledged that Web page's actions have been "unacceptable and disgraceful behaviour". He had turned more and more to ingesting within the wake of distressing well being information referring to a member of the family. His actions have been "out of character". He's the daddy and step-father to 4 youngsters aged between 5 and 12 and whereas a member of the family was lined as much as apply for custody, it was a chance that a extended custodial sentence would result in the youngsters being taken into care.
Daniel Web page had three prior convictions, all associated to driving offences. This included driving with out due care and a focus and failing to supply a specimen on January 20, after assaulting the sufferer. He had obtained a suspended sentence in February for this.
"You plainly have some good qualities as a result of for plenty of years you've gotten taken care of 4 youngsters between the ages of 5 and 12," stated Decide Bury. He stated of the 2 bites Web page made to the sufferer's face: "Now, that actually is a surprising solution to behave to any individual you are alleged to be in love with."
The smashing of the fish tanks was "spiteful". "Because the sufferer's private assertion made clear, they have been fish tanks with sizzling water fish in them which helped her deal with anxiousness and melancholy."
"The excuse that you've for committing these offences is that you simply have been on the time ingesting closely. That is no excuse for behaving like this."
Daniel Web page obtained three months for the suspended sentence associated to the driving offence, 10 months for the assault the place he bit his sufferer twice on the face, and an additional eight months for the alleyway assault.
All sentences have been to be served consecutively and he was to serve half of the sentence in custody. A restraining order was additionally issued to not contact instantly or not directly the sufferer for 5 years. Two group orders linked to separate driving offences together with the January 20 conviction have been eliminated.
Do not miss the newest information from round Scotland and past - Signal as much as our day by day e-newsletter right here.