Girlfriend left scarred after violent attack with an iPad
A charity fundraiser attacked his girlfriend with an iPad – scarring her face –while the pair were on a Shropshire camping holiday, a court has heard.
Nottingham man Luke Taylor, 30, was given a suspended 26-week prison sentence for the 'sustained and violent' attack on his then-girlfriend when they were staying at the Green Caravan Park in Wentnor on July 18 last year.
Taylor was drinking heavily at a pub and was made fun of by a group of men, Shrewsbury Crown Court heard yesterday. They returned to the tent, with Taylor initially going to sleep.
Nicholas Burn, prosecuting, said Taylor's girlfriend tried to get some cigarettes out of his pockets, resulting in him going into a 'rage'.
He said Taylor had thrown his girlfriend to the ground before grabbing her throat and then using the iPad to hit her.
The woman required three stitches to a head wound following the attack.
In a victim statement from the woman she said she had been left scarred by the attack.
Taylor, from Bulwell, in Nottingham, who represented himself at the sentencing hearing, apologised for his behaviour.
"I accept full responsibility for my actions and I am still extremely shocked and disgusted by them," he said.
He was sentenced for assault causing actual bodily harm to 26 weeks imprisonment, suspended for two years, and ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work and to pay £750 in compensation to his former partner.
Taylor was also given a restraining order for a year to stop him seeing or contacting his ex-girlfriend for 12 months.
