A WOMAN suffered facial bruising after her ex-partner kicked her in the face and strangled her after accusing her of seeing other people.

Charlie Jewell has now been jailed for 18 months after pleaded guilty to intentional strangulation and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Reading Crown Court heard that he had been drinking on the morning of January 22 this year when the incident happened. His barrister said he understands that he has ‘brought this upon himself’.

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Prosecuting, Nathan Palmer said that Jewell, 28, had been with his partner for about a decade but six months prior to the incident they had been seeing each ‘sporadically’.

At about 11.20am, Jewell arrived at the woman’s home in Hungerford, near Newbury, with a bottle of vodka and smashed a window demanding to be let in.

Mr Palmer said: “[The woman] was fearful about what he would do and let him in the door. The defendant immediately accused her of meeting another man as she had done her hair and was made up.

“He was angry and marched around the house. She was fearful of her children and followed him up the stairs and the defendant kicked backwards and hit her face and nose causing her to stumble backwards.”

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Jewell, a fire safety officer, then punched two holes in the doors upstairs before returning to the woman and strangling her until she was unconscious.

He left the property and was arrested the following afternoon.

In a victim impact statement, the woman said she has only been able to sleep ‘a few hours a night’ and that she is still ‘coming to terms’ with the incident.

“I’ve known Charlie for 13 years,” the statement read. “We’ve been through a lot together and I now feel worthless as Charlie has done this to me.

“I thought Charlie was my best friend. Now I feel, ‘What was the point?’ I feel totally lost and I’m grieving over the loss of our friendship.”

Defending Jewell, Richard Crayton said: “Drinking has become an issue for him to a point where he realises now, after spending three months in custody, that really his drinking was completely out of control.

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“He has done things to address that, he’s joined AA while in prison.”

Judge Kirsty Real sentenced Jewell, of Seymour Avenue, Suffolk, to 18 months in jail for intentional strangulation, 12 months concurrent for actual bodily harm and one month concurrent for criminal damage.