Thug told partner 'I will kill you - stop breathing' as he throttled his victim at her Sheffield home

Sheffield Crown Court heard on October 10 how Jake Robinson, aged 25, punched his partner’s legs at her Sheffield home before he dragged her to the floor, pinned her down, put his hands around her neck and punched her to the face before throttling her and threatening her.

Prosecuting barrister Matthew Burdon said Robinson had suffered a mood change and had punched both his partner’s legs and after she threw his property out of a window he dragged her to the floor and pinned her down and throttled her before punching her three or four times and then he put his hands around her neck again. Mr Burdon added: “He had both hands around her neck and said, ‘I will kill you – stop breathing, stop breathing’. She said he strangled her for maybe a minute and then let go.”

Robinson followed his partner downstairs and pinned her down again and put a hand to her neck again before punching her to the stomach three times and he later punched her to the jaw, according to Mr Burdon. The court also heard that the couple’s two young children were also in the property at the time of the incident on November 3, last year.

Robinson’s victim stated: “I feared for my life and I thought he was going to kill me, which frightened the life out of me.”

Painter and decorator Robinson, of Halton Street, Featherstone, Pontefract, who has no previous convictions, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and to making threats to kill. Defence barrister Satpal Roth-Sharma said: “He will say it’s drug-induced although he was not on drugs but described himself as coming down from the effects of cocaine.”

Ms Roth-Sharma told the judge: “His behaviour was aggressive and it was extremely aggressive and he accepts that, your honour, and he is not proud of his actions.”

She added that the couple had only been together a couple of months when the complainant became pregnant and Robinson struggled with the responsibility and turned to drugs.

Recorder Anthony Dunne told Robinson: “You started throwing insults at her and she told you to leave and she was perfectly entitled to and you refused to leave and then what followed was a pro-longed incident.”

He added: “There was a second incident of strangulation where you put both hands around her throat and you said, ‘I will kill you – stop breathing, stop breathing’.”

Recorder Dunne also said: “She described in her statement that she feared for her life and she thought you were going to kill her and she feared what was going to happen to her children and if you got aggressive around her children.”

He also told Robinson: “You were under the influence of drugs at the time you had carried out this assault and you had – in your own account – ‘been on a bender’ and were coming down.” Recorder Dunne sentenced Robinson to 26 months of custody and made him subject to a 10-year restraining order.