JAKE EARDLEY

Two men have been jailed after a woman was subjected to a vicious attack.

Jake Eardley, aged 33, subjected his partner to the prolonged assault which involved him punching, kicking and throttling her in Meir.

Barry White, mitigating for Eardley, said he had been in custody since his arrest - nearly nine months.

He said the victim made a retraction statement.

Mr White said: "He has seen the footage.

He knows his behaviour was completely unacceptable.

At the time his life was a very unstable lifestyle." "He is doing very well in prison.

He appears to be a completely different person to the person we see in the footage.

He wants to leave Stoke-on-Trent and go to Yorkshire where his friend has secured him a job as a security officer." Judge Graeme Smith told Eardley: "It was a prolonged incident and included punches, kicking and throttling her.

This was a persistent assault.

It involved strangulation.

It was within a domestic context.

It is very positive to hear of the changes that you have made in custody and are looking forward to a future in a different area with gainful employment." The victim was taken to hospital.

She was left with facial injuries.

In a victim statement she said she was still shocked and in pain from her injuries.

She said: "I believe I was meant to be killed.

I do not believe I was meant to leave that flat." Eardley, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Both men will serve 40 per cent of their sentences before being released on licence.