Former boxer 'possessed by petty jealousy' brutally beat up woman

A FORMER boxer subjected his partner to a brutal beating in which he repeatedly kicked and stamped on the woman as she lay on the floor while he brandished a knife at her.

- JASON EVANS Court and crime reporter

David Bradshaw was on bail at the time of the assault having previously taken the woman’s car and crashed it into a wall before being found drunk and shirtless in a pub car park and then kicking a policeman in the head.

Sending the 34-year-old defendant down a judge at Swansea Crown Court described him as a man “possessed by petty jealousy and inadequacy” and said in a domestic context he was a “bully”.

Ryan Bowen, prosecuting, told the court that at 2.30pm on August 22 this year Bradshaw's partner collected him from the day surgery unit at Swansea's Singleton Hospital where he had been receiving treatment for a previous hand injury.

He said the woman formed the view he was intoxicated.

The pair went to the nearby Pub on the Pond bar where the defendant starting accusing his partner of being unfaithful and of treating him like “s***”.

Bradshaw stormed out of the pub taking his two pints of beer and glass of whisky with him.

The court heard the altercation continued after the woman left the pub with the defendant demanding to see her phone before becoming “irate”, pouring a drink over her, and taking her car keys and driving away in her Mini.

The prosecutor said the defendant subsequently crashed his partner's car into a wall and abandoned it.

The court heard that Bradshaw was found that evening - shirtless and intoxicated - in the car park of the Red Lion pub in Morriston having been thrown out of the establishment due to his behaviour.