Jealous boyfriend tried to strangle partner and killed her fish using bleach

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A woman was terrified after her jealous partner hit and tried to strangle her as part of a drug-fuelled attack. Joe Parkinson, formerly known as Joe Dryden, admitted to a series of offences during a horrifying campaign of stalking and threats.

He pleaded guilty to battery and damaging a mobile phone, as well as killing a koi fish that was in the victim's garden pond using bleach, as reported by Leicestershire Live.Parkinson, aged 30, also admitted to a theft of the victim's £300 hot tub, that was later returned, and stalking her between April and June 2020.

Prosecutor, Lynsey Knott, told Leicester Crown Court that the couple's 10-month relationship started to go downhill by April 1 last year, when he returned to the victim's home in Rothley, where he was then staying, at 11.30pm.

Parkinson was behaving "differently" and the complainant suspected he had been taking drugs.At 2am she was awoken by a blow to the head and the defendant yelling, accusing her of texting her ex-boyfriend.He then threw her phone out of the bedroom window.The argument continued downstairs.The prosecutor said: "He pushed her onto the sofa and threatened to punch her before strangling her with both hands for 10 to 15 seconds, until she struggled to breathe, before releasing his grip and pushing her to the floor."He ran out of the house, taking her handbag - which he emptied in the street - before driving off.She suffered a bruised knee, but no other injuries, although she was shaken up.When he saw her the next day, as she visited his sister who lived nearby, he demanded the victim should apologise to him.When she refused, he threw her mobile phone over a garden fence, causing £200 damage to the handset.As she went to retrieve her phone he stole her