A DRUG and alcohol-fuelled man who attacked two women and forcefully kicked a dog trying to protect its mistress has been jailed for 20 months.

Terry Brockhill had been drinking vodka and taking cocaine when he set about his part-ner and her sister at a house in Keighley on March 26, Bradford Crown Court heard today.

Brockhill, 38, of Kingfisher Grove, Allerton, Bradford, pleaded guilty ahead of his trial to two charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

The court heard he throttled one woman so that she had difficulty breathing and kicked the other when she was on the ground.

Prosecutor Gareth Henderson-Moore said the three had been drinking the previous night and Brockhill had taken cocaine.

In the early hours, at about 1am, he suddenly got up and attacked his first victim. He punched her in the face, loosening her tooth, and then grabbed her by the throat.

When her sister intervened, he pushed her out of the room. The dog then went to protect its mistress and Brockhill ‘kicked it with force,’ Mr Henderson-Moore said.

The police were alerted and Brockhill was arrested at the scene.

Both women sustained bruising and told the police they were very frightened during the attack. One said he had ‘a look in his eye’ and she was petrified. The second said she was also extremely afraid.

Brockhill had 12 previous convictions for 16 offences but nothing for violence, the court was told.

Lydia Pearce said in mitigation that he had done a lot of work in custody to address his thinking and his actions that night.

While in prison on remand for five months he had shown a high level of motivation to address his issues with drugs and alcohol.

Miss Pearce said any jail sentence could be suspended to allow him to seek help from the probation service.

The women’s injuries were ‘limited to bruising’ although there had been an element of strangulation and kicking on the ground.

Recorder Ian Mullarkey said Brockhill had been drinking and he had taken cocaine.

He had stood up in the early hours and punched his first victim in the face and grabbed her by the throat, squeezing with such force that she had difficulty breathing, effective-ly throttling her. The second woman was punched and kicked.

Brockhill had no similar convictions and had made good progress in custody.

He was jailed for 16 months for the first assault and four months to run consecutively for the second.