Case - Basildon Crown Court
A MAN repeatedly beat and strangled his girlfriend until she passed out after she refused to get his drugs, a court heard.
Richard Waterhouse, 35, of Chancellor Road, Southend is standing trial at Basildon Crown Court accused of repeatedly hitting and strangling the woman at her home in Basildon.
Yesterday the jury in the case heard Waterhouse had previously been convicted of manslaughter after stabbing someone to death.
Prosecuting, Oliver Kirk told the jury the woman was left bruised after the attack.
He said: “We say on November 13 the victim and the defendant went to get some medication for her from All Cures in Whitmore Way, Basildon and made their way back to her flat in Havengore, Basildon.