A man has been jailed for nine months after he went into his former girlfriend’s Milnsbridge home in the early morning and assaulted her and the new man she was seeing.
Joseph Dickinson, 22, of Lockbridge Way, Milnsbridge, had a two-and-a-half year relationship with Sinead Smith but it ended after she blamed his behaviour when he took drink combined with Mcat or cocaine, Jonathan Sharp prosecuting told Leeds Crown Court yesterday.
After the break-up she started seeing Adam Sykes and they spent the night of March 28 together at her home.
Dickinson was walking past at 6.30am the next morning and decided to go in at that time uninvited.
Mr Sharp said: “He was drunk and, in her estimation, on drugs. He found them in bed together, he lost his temper and became violent to both of them.”
Mr Sharp said Dickinson punched Mr Sykes repeatedly to his face and head before he grabbed his clothes and managed to escape from the house. He was later treated for a cut to the top of his head and bruising to his eye and forehead.
After he escaped Dickinson had turned his attention to Miss Smith causing her scratches to her neck and chest and swelling and bruising to her right eye in a struggle as he pinned her down on the floor.
He then turned his temper to the furniture in the room, throwing a television set and a mirror on the floor and pulled out a drawer breaking it.
He saw his ex-girlfriend trying to hide her and Mr Sykes’ mobile phones and smashed both of them after grabbing them from her. He caused a total of £723 damage.
Mr Sharp said even when a neighbour arrived to help Miss Smith and took her to her home Dickinson followed, banging on the door for a time. She was still there upset and shaking when the police arrived.
Adam Birkby, representing Dickinson, said he realised his actions were reprehensible. He had planned to see her later that day to talk over things between them and thought she might be still up.
Mr Birkby said: “He knows now that was a daft thing to do and when he found them in bed together he reacted. He accepts he was entirely in the wrong and is very sorry.”
Dickinson admitted assault causing actual bodily harm and criminal damage.
Jailing him Judge James Spencer QC said it was clear he had decided in his “arrogance” and when either in drink or drugged or both to go into his ex’s home at that time of the morning “to find out what was going on.”
“You found your ex-partner with her new friend and set about them both,” the judge told Dickinson. “You showed them no mercy, even to the extent of pursuing her afterwards when she was helped by her neighbours.”
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