Four year jail for thug who beat up partner
A thug who beat up his partner twice in a month has been locked up for four years.
The 18-month relationship between 24-year-old Baden Robinson and the female victim started well but soon began to go down hill, a judge was told.
Robinson, who lived at the victim's Wolverhampton home, became increasingly difficult to live with as the arguments became more frequent, the city's crown court heard.
The couple were having a row on November 6 when Robinson picked up a cracked floor tile to attack her with and sliced a finger on her right hand, cutting the ligaments, as she tried to fend off the blow, said Miss Sharonjit Bahia, prosecuting.
She suffered wounds to both hands and multiple bruises to the face during the beating but went back to her home to live with him after receiving treatment at New Cross Hospital.
He had taken her there and discouraged her from having the finger operated on immediately for fear she would tell doctors how she had been hurt, it was said.
He struck again on December 7 during a nightmare 24 hours in which the woman was punched, kicked and bitten by him before she managed to escape and get treatment for her swollen jaw and badly bruised body.
She is now taking medication for anxiety and depression, the court was told.
Mr Graham Russell, defending, conceded that the offending was 'ugly and serious' but pointed out that Robinson had been diagnosed as suffering from bipolar disorder.
The defendant from William Booth Lane, Birmingham, admitted wounding and assault and was sent to prison by Judge Amjad Nawaz who told him: "For somebody to have been treated in the way you treated this woman is deplorable. You made her life a misery. In the end she had to escape from her own home."
