Man jailed after beating woman in horrific attack

A Sunderland man who beat his girlfriend with a baton and tried to strangle her during a Christmas Eve horror attack has been put behind bars.

- by Neil Fatkin

Dominic Hewison started to hit the woman repeatedly with the weapon while she was asleep in bed before he squeezed both hands around her throat until she thought she was going to die.

Newcastle Crown Court heard emergency services went to the house in Sunderland in the early hours of December 24, after multiple calls were made about a violent domestic incident.