Man left fiancée with fractured eye socket

A MAN beat up his fiancée and left her with a fractured eye socket after accusing her of dancing with other men, a court has heard.

- JASON EVANS Court and crime reporter

Alexander Patton, from Neath, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for ABH after assaulting his fiancée. SOUTH WALES POLICE

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Alexander Patton then lied to police and claimed his partner had suffered her injuries by falling down a step.

A judge told Patton that he had he left his victim "bleeding, battered and bruised" before giving a deceitful account of what happened to the police. He said the case was too serious to be dealt with by anything other than immediate custody.

Helen Randall, prosecuting, told Swansea Crown Court that the assault happened in August this year in the victim's flat in Swansea after a group of neighbours had gathered for drinks.

She said Patton became "increasingly loud and aggressive" as the evening wore on, and in response the defendant's fiancée locked herself in the bathroom of the property.