Kenneth David Pointon, 30, was downstairs and his girlfriend upstairs at her city home on October 18. Pointon then ran upstairs amid an argument, prompting his fearful partner to try and use a mattress as a makeshift barrier. However, he punched the woman repeatedly to her face and then arms as she desperately tried to defend herself. “I was screaming at the top of my lungs,” she later told police, describing how Pointon then grabbed her throat and squeezed. “I could not breathe at all and started to think I was going to die,” she added. “He looked into my eyes and all of a sudden let go.”