by The court chased his girlfriend brutally when she refused to have sex with him.
Christy Hewitt, 23, said he could ‘kill his partner with one punch’ after he ‘flew into a rage’ when she refused his advances, reports the Liverpool Echo. The father of three ripped her and repeatedly stamped on one of his victims in another ‘unpleasant and gratuitous’. attack.
Liverpool Crown Court heard how Hewitt had previously promised his victim he would never attack her again after previous incidents but a judge said his words were ‘hollow’. He was jailed for 30 months yesterday (May 21).
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The court was told that Hewitt had been in a relationship with his victim for around four years. But Iain Criddle, prosecuting, described how ‘violence and alcohol consumption’ had marred their time together. On January 4 this year, Hewitt was said to be ‘angry’ after a night of drinking and ripped a door off its hinges at the couple’s flat at around midnight.
The victim went outside to smoke a cigarette and ‘defuse the situation’ but her boyfriend followed her, punched and kicked her before grabbing her by the throat and throwing her to the ground. The thug then stamped on her head six times before she was able to escape and ‘run off’ when another resident intervened.
She found Hewitt outside when she returned, and he began his attack by punching her across the face and throwing his mobile phone at her. She tried to flee again, but her abuser followed her and hit her in the head twice more.
However, she was said to have been left with a headache after the incident. When he was arrested, Hewitt made ‘obviously homophobic comments’ to police officers.
This included ‘impersonating’ him by saying ‘I’m gay’ and calling him an offensive name. He was released on bail with conditions not to contact the victim, but he and his father began living in her home despite this.
Then, on the morning of March 13, the complainant rejected Hewitt’s sexual advances while they were lying in bed – and punched her in the face. When she hit him back, he hit her twice more with such force that she fell off the bed.
The attacker then picked her up and threw her back onto the mattress, started straddling her and put his hands around her throat. Hewitt made ‘threats about being able to kill her with one pint’ and threatened to smash a mirror over her head.
The victim was left unable to breathe as she was choked. She subsequently left the address with the defendant’s father and reported the incident at a place of employment, after she sustained pressure on her neck, lips, leg and arm.
During the interview, Hewitt gave a prepared statement claiming that ‘she was making up’ after he was caught again. In a statement read out to the court on her behalf, the victim outlined how she was left suffering from panic attacks and ‘wakes up in the middle of the night thinking she is being strangled’.
She also said she feels ‘sick and anxious all the time’ and was forced to move home because of the incidents. Hewitt has eight previous convictions for 15 offences.
He received a youth referral order for affray and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place in 2017, a conditional discharge for assault in 2019, a community order for assaulting an emergency services worker in 2022, 22 weeks behind bars for to cause unnecessary suffering. animal later the same year and fined £80 for drunken and disorderly conduct in 2023.
Peter White, defending, told the court: “This is a gentleman who is still only 23 years old. He is described as immature and perhaps not as emotionally developed as he should be, considering that he is now a father of three children.
“He suffered a traumatic childhood. He was reported missing more than 100 times and moved from pill to pill to job in foster accommodation and in the care of the local authority, and his parents were drug addicts.
“Mr Hewitt thought he was working towards something better when he entered into a relationship with the complainant. He accepts that he wasted that.
“For the first time in his life, he had relative stability. He assumes that his actions alone brought this about.
“To me, he wants to apologise. He accepts the seriousness of the offences.
“Mr Hewitt tells me he is making progress in custody. He is very worried because his father is very ill with liver failure, heart failure and recent bleeding on the brain.
“Mr Hewitt was his carer and was registered as such before he was taken into custody. He hopes to resume the relationship he had with his children and be a positive person in their lives.
Hewitt – of Parknay Park Road in Aigburth – admitted willful intent, two counts of assault by beating, criminal damage and a public order offence. Appearing via video link to HMP Altcourse, he was jailed for 30 months and given a 10-year restraining order.
Sentencing, Registrar Jeremy Lasker said: “It was a relationship that first started in 2020, but within the first few months there was an incident of a violent nature. The complainant reported to the police, although no formal action was taken. .
“However, it resulted in your breaking up for a period of time. The following year, in April 2021, you apologized for your previous behavior and promised that there would be no recurrence, and you resumed your relationship together.
“Unfortunately, your commitment to the plaintiff was weak. Your relationship was troubled.
“The complainant states that he is toxic and that alcohol is a major factor leading to violence, aggression and calls to the police. This is the background to the offenses you have committed.
“After many hours of drinking, you flew into a rage. You attacked her, using both your fists to hit her and your legs to kick her.
“She was thrown to the floor, where you continued to stomp on her as she lay on the ground. No significant injuries were done, but it was an unpleasant and unrelenting attack nonetheless. while you’re drunk.”
Recorder Lasker said of Hewitt’s second attack: “When the complainant refused your sexual advances, as she was entitled to do, you became angry with her. You had previously warned her that you would slap her for refusing you , and you did exactly that.”
Hewitt replied ‘thank you for your honour’ after learning his sentence.
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