"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
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA 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." READ MORE: Woman escapes from violent partner with domestic abuse code word 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.
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