2024 - BRIDLINGTON SERIAL OFFENDER JAILED FOR NEARLY THREE YEARS AFTER STRANGLING EX-PARTNER AND 'HORRIFIC BEATING' OF MAN
A serial offender has been jailed for nearly three years after he was caught driving while disqualified 4 times in nine months, strangled his ex-partner and subjected a Scarborough man to a horrific beating in his own home.Joshua James Richardson, 22, from Bridlington, showed flagrant disregard for his banned-driver status, skipped court hearings and beat a man so badly he needed hospital treatment for a serious eye injury, York Crown Court heard.
Prosecutor Timothy Jacobs said Richardson’s crime spree began on July 20, 2022, when his white Transit van was spotted by police in Town Street, Malton.
An officer pulled him over because he wasn’t wearing a seat belt and discovered that Richardson was a banned driver with no insurance.
Five days later, Richardson, while under investigation for the initial offence, was driving a black BMW which was stopped by police on Stoney Haggs Road, Seamer.
He was booked again for driving while disqualified.
Three days later, he went to his ex-partner’s home and snatched her phone before demanding to know whom she had been calling.
“She tried to retrieve the phone and he pushed her, causing her to fall back onto a sofa (and) bang her head,” said Mr Jacobs.
The (victim) tried to push him towards the front door but he stood on her bare feet with boots on.” Richardson then grabbed hold of her throat and strangled her twice.
When she tried to escape, he spun her around and pushed her against a wall.
Bizarrely, he then fell to his knees, grabbed her legs and began crying and apologised.
He told her he would give her two grand if she didn’t tell police,” added Mr Jacobs.
The named victim suffered bruising and swelling to her foot and “multiple” bruises to her body, along with bruising and a red mark on her neck where she’d been strangled.
She said the attack had left her feeling “imprisoned” in her own home.
Richardson, of Olinda Road, was charged with intentional strangulation but denied the offence, only to be found guilty after trial.
On October 3 that year, he turned up in a van at the home of his ex-partner’s new boyfriend in Scarborough.
He was standing at the front door as he shouted up to the named victim: “Come out and sort things out.” “The (victim) told him he had no intention of going outside but (Richardson) responded with threats that he would slam the doors if he didn’t,” said Mr Jacobs.
Richardson tried the front door which was locked, then went round the back of the property and barged into the house through the unlocked rear door.
When the victim came downstairs, Richardson was stood in the kitchen.
Richardson lunged at him and pushed him through the kitchen door into the hallway where he pinned him against a wall, punched him in the neck, causing “instant pain” to his Adam’s apple, and headbutted him in the nose which was dripping with blood.
The scuffle continued in the kitchen where Richardson punched the victim in the eye and cheekbone “with some force”.
He left the house promising to “come back tonight” and still shouting threats at the victim who required hospital treatment to have his eyebrow glued.
