A man has been jailed for two-and-a-half years after strangling a woman in Eastwood until she could no longer breathe. Michael Jamson, 30, breached a court order which banned him from seeing his female victim and he repeatedly assaulted her over the course of three days last August.
The abuse came to a head at an address on Wood Street in Eastwood on August 29, when the strangling took place. A passing driver stopped to intervene in the incident, which took place outside the address, and they took the woman to safety.
The intervention alerted police to the incident and Jamson was arrested the same day, answering "no comment" to each of the questions put to him. He later pleaded guilty to assault, controlling and coercive behaviour, battery, intentional strangulation and breaching a restraining order at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday, January 12.
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Detective Constable Melissa Brown of Nottinghamshire Police, said: "This was an appalling and prolonged display of violence from a controlling and abusive bully. This kind of violence against women is treated with the utmost seriousness and will always be very thoroughly investigated.
"There are no excuses for this kind of behaviour, and we urge anyone who experiences it or witnesses it to call us immediately. I am pleased Jamson has now been held accountable for his actions and would also like to thank the brave member of the public who stopped to help the victim. Without her actions that day Jamson may never have been held to account and our victim may have been placed in additional danger."
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