JAIL FOR BULLY WHO ATTACKED GIRLFRIEND
A PERSISTENT bully who attacked his long-term girlfriend will spend two years behind bars.James Kristensen appeared at Warrington Crown Court on Monday charged with causing Alison Green, his on-off partner of 15 years actual bodily harm and breaching his injunction against the complainant twice.
Jonathan Austin, prosecuting, told the court how the 41-year-old, of Quebec Road, Orford, called at the complainant’s house on August 22, shouting at the front door demanding to be let in.
Ms Green thought the defendant had been drinking and heard him kicking the panel of the back door.
She escaped through the front door and ran.
Mr Austin said: “He ran after her.
He pushed her over, kneed her in the face then used his knee to strike her several more times.” The victim was said to suffer a cut to her skull when she fell – she received treatment in hospital.
Despite being ordered not to threaten or cause violence to his long-term partner by the courts in June, he was found hiding in the loft of Ms Green’s empty house by police the day after the assault.
While on remand, the offender, who has 22 convictions for 49 offences, threatened and intimidated Ms Green by writing two letters ordering her to ‘tell the truth’, the court heard.
Daniel Dennis, defending Kristensen, said his client had entered a prompt guilty plea rather than opting for a trial and making the victim give evidence.
He said: “He accepts the inevitable.” Judge Thomas Teague sentenced the career criminal to 20 months imprisonment.
