"I may as well do you in, I'll only get seven years": Chilling words of remorseless thug as he smashed girlfriend's head open
04.03.2022 - 10:55
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A remorseless thug has been jailed after he split his girlfriend's head open with a glass ashtray.
Kevin Marshall chillingly told his victim 'I may as well do you in, I'll only get seven years' before leaving her covered in blood in a cowardly attack, the Liverpool Echo reports.
He told a probation officer: "It weren't like she were bleeding out and asking for help, I carried on hitting her."
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When the victim - who the M.E.N has chosen not to name - returned home from hospital after the attack, Marshall, 33, washed the blood from her hair, the court was told.
But two days later she fled to a women's refuge and told the police about his violent behaviour.
Liverpool Crown Court heard how Marshall and the woman had been in an 'on/off' relationship for about two years.
The court heard he had been violent to her in the past and smashed household items at her home, while he had also just been released from prison after being jailed for breaching a Domestic Violence Protection Order, made in respect of another woman.
But on December 26 last year, the victim phoned him and asked him to come to her home, where he stayed over New Year, without any violence or arguments.
Chris Hopkins, prosecuting, said on January 6 they went to The Glass House Wetherspoon pub in St Helens, where during a row he pushed her to the ground.
She felt scared about what would happen if she tried to leave and they had a few more drinks before staff refused to serve Marshall because of concerns about his 'aggressive behaviour'.
The pair stopped at a supermarket to buy more cans of alcohol before they went back to the woman's flat where they continued to drink and again