A City insurance executive has avoided jail after he grabbed his petrified girlfriend by her throat and lifted her onto her tiptoes in a row outside his £1.6million west London flat.
Howard James Burnell, 62, was convicted of assaulting his then-girlfriend Mary Phillips in the doorway of his flat in Richmond, where they both lived, after a dinner date on March 14.
The former head of Marine & Energy Liability was ousted from his lucrative directorship at insurance giants Apollo when news of the late-night attack broke.
Wimbledon Magistrates Court heard how Burnell, a divorced father-of-two, inflicted bruising to the throat and thigh of Ms Phillips when they rowed after an evening out.
A racist pensioner who terrorised a lollipop lady outside Jacob Rees-Mogg s prep school will be sentenced next month.
Mukesh Vala, 66, shouted vile abuse at Westminster Under School crossing attendant Julie Khames leaving her too terrified to work.
He also attacked the school s deputy headmaster and several medical professionals.
Vala s campaign of harassment took place when he was already subject to a suspended prison sentence.
Many of his crimes took place in front of pupils of the £41,000-a-year school, whose alumni includes Tory minister Rees-Mogg, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Labour MP Hilary Benn.
Mukesh Vala, 66, shouted vile abuse at Westminster Under School crossing attendant Julie Khames over several weeks, leaving her too terrified to work outside Westminster Under School in central London