Thug beat partner then rubbed her face in cat litter tray

A MAN repeatedly beat his partner with a variety of weapons, throttled her, ripped her clothes off, bit a chunk off her ear, and rubbed her face in a cat litter tray and tried to make her eat it, a court has heard.

- JASON EVANS

Swansea Crown Court heard that when 29-year-old Jared Warlow - who has a history of beating up partners - was arrested by police he claimed his victim had attacked him because he wouldn't have sex with her and that he had been acting in self-defence.

The woman was taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff where doctors found a catalogue of injuries including a jaw broken on both sides, six fractured ribs, a fractured spine, multiple wounds to the liver, a deformed right ear with the top missing, bruises and swelling to the face, body and arms, and a traumatic injury to the knee.

The court heard the woman has been left suffering with tinnitus, a deformed ear, chipped teeth, and with no feeling in her face from the bridge of her nose down her neck due to nerve damage which is likely to be permanent.

Handing the defendant an extended sentence as a dangerous offender, a judge described the way he treated the woman as “sadistic” and “horrific beyond words”.

Craig Jones, prosecuting, told the court Warlow and the complainant in the case had been in a relationship for a matter of weeks at the time of the assault, the pair having met in the pub where the woman worked.