Walsall man pleads not guilty to nine year campaign of controlling behaviour and strangling woman
A Walsall man has denied subjecting his former partner to almost a decade of violent controlling behaviour including strangling her.
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Marius Sturza, from Prince Street, Walsall, appeared at Wolverhampton Crown Court charged with three offences concerning the same woman.
Sturza, who entered the dock with crutches, needed a Romanian interpreter to answer the charges.
The 49-year-old pleaded not guilty to threatening the woman with a knife at a Wolverhampton property on February 7, this year.
