2009: MILKING BANK MAN JAILED FOR HORRIFIC ATTACK ON GIRLFRIEND
A young man aged 28 from Milking Bank has been sentenced to three years imprisonment after a violent and threatening incident involving his girlfriend.Daniel Crooks, described as jealous, dragged his partner Kimberley Webb into his flat by her hair and later threatened to cut her up with a chainsaw.
The confrontation followed Crooks’s demand to know who she had been messaging during a night out.
Wolverhampton Crown Court heard that Crooks took Miss Webb’s BMW the next morning, noticing a knife, beer cans, and the chainsaw in the vehicle’s boot.
The prosecutor, Alison Scott-Jones, reported that the pair drove to his mother’s house to get a petrol container.
When Miss Webb was hesitant to return to the car, Crooks forcefully pulled her hair, causing some locks to be torn out.
She managed to escape when Crooks stopped at a petrol station, but he later forced her back to his flat, stole her car keys, and pulled her inside.
At the flat, Crooks assaulted Miss Webb by banging her head against the wall multiple times and threatening to use the chainsaw on her.
The violence ceased only after neighbours, alarmed by the noise, contacted the police, leading to Crooks’s arrest.
Crooks admitted charges of false imprisonment, threatening to kill, witness intimidation, and two counts of actual bodily harm.
Additionally, Miss Scott-Jones disclosed that Crooks assaulted another woman shortly after she rejected his sexual advances at a pub in Dudley.
Crooks gained entry to her home through an unlocked door, assaulted her in her bedroom, and made threatening comments about future refusals.
Crooks’s lawyer, Timothy Pole, explained that his client’s aggressive conduct was related to depression and heavy alcohol consumption.
Judge Jonathan Gosling, delivering the sentence, stated that Crooks has a “long history of alcohol-related violence,” especially when situations turn unfavorable for him.
