In August, police were called to his now former partner’s home where the 52-year-old was “drunk, shouting and waving his arms around.
Then in October, police were called again to reports that the defendant had punched the woman to the face.
Describing the October incident, she said: “Police were called to her address at about ten to five in the morning. She said she had been in bed and he had come upstairs and hit her a lot of times.
“She said he had been drinking and police found an empty half bottle of vodka in the kitchen. He was annoyed because her phone kept pinging.”