MAN WHO BEAT UP HIS PARTNER ARRESTED TRYING TO FLY TO TENERIFE
A man wanted over a nasty attack on his partner was arrested as he tried to board a plane to Tenerife.Jason Goacher from Meltham cut off the electronic tag monitoring his whereabouts and headed to Leeds Bradford Airport.
He had been on bail following an assault on his partner which was overheard by a police operator after the victim hid her mobile phone under a pillow in her bedroom.
The call handler overheard her screaming and pleading as he repeatedly hit her and threatened to slit her throat.
Goacher, who met the victim in Tenerife and was once jailed for an assault over there, appeared at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court via a prison video link.
The 44-year-old pleaded guilty to an offence of assault by beating.
The Huddersfield court heard that the incident happened on March 15 at his partner’s home in Church Terrace, Holmfirth.
They had both been drinking and rowed over some medical forms the victim, who suffers from epilepsy, had signed.
Prosecutor Andy Wills said: “He hit her in her face, causing to a cut to her lip.
Then he pushed her onto the bed and grabbed her around the throat, making it very difficult for her to breathe.” She grabbed her mobile phone, dialled 999 and was connected to a police operator when he returned.
The call handler overheard her screaming and pleading as he repeatedly hit her and threatened to slit her throat.
He continued to assault her, calling her a slut and said that he would slit her throat and this disturbance was heard by the operator.
He threw a glass of wine at her and the contents went onto the wall behind her.
Police attended and Goacher, of Pavilion Way, was arrested from the house.
He initially denied assault, claiming that his partner had hit him and he was defending himself.
Goacher labelled her a “drama queen” and said that the pleading the call handler heard was her begging him not to take the dog out.
Magistrates heard that he had 33 offences to his name and in 2010 was jailed in Tenerife following an assault there.
They were told that the couple’s relationship ended following the attack and he was given police bail with conditions not to contact her or go to her home.
He flouted these terms and was arrested from Leeds Bradford Airport as he tried to leave the country and return to the Canary Island where he had lived for years and met the victim.
His solicitor Ian Whiteley said: “He tried to leave the country because he thought that he case had been dropped and because the complainant had made a retraction statement.
He was going to go back to Tenerife to get away from the situation and cut off his electronic (curfew monitoring) tag and went to the airport.
There he was about to board a plane and got lifted for breaching his bail conditions.
He was initially arrested for a first breach of bail and it was only when he disclosed to the officers that he’d destroyed his tag and was about to leave the country that the officers realised he’d committed a second breach of bail.” Goacher was arrested and taken to Leeds Magistrates’ Court last Friday where he admitted the breach and was remanded into custody.
The court was told that he had 33 offences to his name and in 2010 was jailed in Tenerife following an assault there.
Magistrates ordered a full probation report ahead of his sentencing on April 19.
He was remanded into custody until then and will be produced at the court for the hearing.
