JEALOUS EX HANDED COMMUNITY ORDER AFTER BRUTAL ATTACK
A man flew into a rage and grabbed his former partner by the throat after seeing another man leaving her home.Shawn Crossfield repeatedly punched her to the face and body, and when she begged to go to hospital, he replied: “You’ll be going to hospital because I’m going to kill you.” Crossfield, a window cleaner, claimed he was still in a relationship with the mother of two and was devastated to find another man leaving her Grange Moor house when he arrived back from work a day early to surprise her.
He pleaded guilty to charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and criminal damage.
The attack happened at the victim’s home in Wakefield Road on May 29.
She had split up with him because she was sick of his controlling behavior but they maintained contact due to the children.
Magistrates were told he had been in a relationship with her for seven years, split his time between her home and his father’s in Shirley Place, and recently spent money on driving lessons for her.
He was sentenced to a 12 month community order, with 25 rehabilitation activity days and 100 hours of unpaid work.
They also made a restraining order banning Crossfield from contacting his ex for two years and ordered him to pay her £100 compensation.
He will also pay court costs.
