HUCKNALL MAN JAILED FOR ASSAULT AND CHOKING HIS PARTNER
A man has been jailed for four years and three months after beating his former partner.Robert Bleasdale, 48, of Montague Road, Hucknall, was found guilty of two counts of intentional suffocation and assault occasioning actual bodily harm at Nottingham Crown Court.
The attack took place in the early hours of June 8 last year at the home of the victim.
Bleasdale forced the woman to the floor and then proceeded to kick her in the head, back, ribs and then grab her by the throat - nearly resulting in unconsciousness.
Nottinghamshire Police arrived at the scene after a call from a member of the public.
Alongside his custodial sentence issued on Tuesday, January 14, Bleasdale was also given a restraining order banning further contact with his victim.
He had denied all the charges against him during his trial in December 2024.
He was found not guilty of engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour.
Police Investigator Madeleine Wadden, a domestic abuse specialist at Nottinghamshire Police, said: "Bleasdale is a large and powerful man who chose to inflict serious acts of violence on a woman who had little hope of defending herself.
But for the timely intervention of a member of the public who called the police during his second attack, she could very well have come to even more serious harm." “This kind of violence against women is utterly abhorrent and is something we work every day to prevent by holding violent abusers like him to account.
I am pleased he has now been jailed and that his victim is now protected from him by an additional restraining order.”
