A MAN who broke his estranged partner’s nose during a “brutal” hour-long attack in her own home has been jailed for 21 months.

Courtney Booth, 24, had broken up with the mother of his three children around six weeks before bumping into her in a Bingley nightclub on August 26 last year.

Prosecutor Philip Adams told Bradford Crown Court that the pair went back to the woman’s home, where Booth became “increasingly jealous and aggressive”.

He took her phone, worth at least £400, and smashed it on the floor before pulling the woman to the floor of her cellar.

He then sat on top of her, punching her repeatedly to the face and body.

Mr Adams said: “He used his hand to cover her mouth so she couldn’t call out.”

The court was told that the woman bled heavily and said she blacked out at points during the attack, which she said lasted around an hour.

She eventually persuaded Booth to go back upstairs at which point she escaped her ordeal by running to a neighbour’s house and calling the police.

She was taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary where she was treated for a fractured nose and bruising to her eye and cheek.

Booth handed himself into police on September 12 but denied the assault, claiming he was acting in self-defence.

The court heard that on January 31, Booth smashed a bathroom window to gain entry to a house on Cherry Tree Gardens in Bradford before stealing a games console worth £250.

He caused in excess of £1,000 of damage to doors and windows of the property, and was identified by blood and fingerprints left at the scene.

Booth, of Weyhill Drive, Allerton, Bradford, was on bail for the assault at the time of the offence, and also subject to a community order imposed in early January for offences of drink-driving and assaulting a police officer.

He pleaded guilty to charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, criminal damage, and burglary.

Stephen Wood, defending, said the assault was a “dreadful incident for the woman to endure”, and conceded that Booth’s only mitigation was his early guilty plea.

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He described the burglary as “out of character”, with Booth having no previous convictions for that offence.

Judge Jonathan Rose told Booth that he was an “intimidating” man, warning him that future sentences would consist of “years not months” if he did not bring his violent behaviour to an end.

Of the assault on Booth’s former partner, he told him: “There was absolutely no excuse for the attack you carried out.

“To beat her repeatedly was savage, brutal, and behaviour for which you have good cause to be deeply remorseful. You left her with extremely serious injuries for an offence of this type.”