A man has been jailed for 20 months for urinating on his partner and repeatedly punching her after drinking and taking drugs on St Valentine’s Day.

Luke Longstaff left the woman bruised and bleeding in the attack at her home in the early hours of February 15 last year.

Longstaff, 28, who had been remanded in Leeds Prison since April, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm in Bradford and criminal damage to a radiator.

A further charge that he unlawfully and maliciously administered a poison or other destructive or noxious thing, namely urine, with intent to injure, aggrieve or annoy was dropped by the prosecution because it was part of the assault.

Prosecutor Andrew Semple told Bradford Crown Court on Tuesday that Longstaff and the woman met on a dating website.

At first they were happy together but his drinking and drug taking caused problems between them.

On the evening of St Valentine’s Day they had both been drinking and they began arguing. Longstaff, who had taken cannabis, called the woman insulting names and then urinated on her as she sat on the floor.

He then dragged her along as she clung to the radiator, pulling it off the wall.

Longstaff pushed her into a clothes rail, punched her twice in the face and shoved her to the floor before leaving the house.

The woman suffered a bruised and swollen face and bruising and grazing injuries to her arms and legs, Mr Semple said.

An ambulance was called but she did not need to go to hospital.

Water leaked from the radiator and caused flooding damage to her home, the court was told.

Longstaff was bailed following the attack but remanded into custody in April after returning to the woman’s home in breach of the conditions.

Mr Semple said that at first he tried to blame her for the violence, saying she had hit him, although the police had found her injured at the scene.

Abdul Shakoor said in mitigation that Longstaff had now served the equivalent of a 16 month prison sentence on remand.

Although urinating on the woman was “gratuitous degradation” she was not physically injured by that.

Longstaff, who worked at a garage, had never assaulted her before and he accepted that the relationship was over.

Judge Andrew Hatton said it was a sustained assault in the woman’s own home in which she had been subjected to “appalling degradation.”