A footballer slapped his fiancee and broke her fingers after a night out while she was being treated for cancer.
Buckley Town player Lewis Hone, who runs a flooring company which once worked at Buckingham Palace, assaulted Elizabeth Davey at their home after accusing her of cheating on him.
The 29-year-old, now of Somerset Road, Pensby, Wirral, had gone on a separate night out from his partner and returned home in the early hours.
When he got to the house, in North Wales, at around 5am on June 8 last year, the couple began arguing.
According to North Wales Live, Mold Crown Court heard that Hone accused Ms Davey of cheating on him.
Prosecutor Myles Wilson then said that in their bedroom, he hit her with his open hand on the side of her face four or five times.
Hone then picked up her mobile phone and threw it at a mirror, which broke the mirror and the phone screen.
He went to a spare room and Ms Davey followed him, but the row continued and he smashed a mirror in that room, sending shards of glass over his then fiancee.
She fled into the street and knocked on two doors before a neighbour let her in.
The court heard she was "hysterical and frightened" and another neighbour called police.
Police arrested Hone but he was verbally abusive and scratched an officer on the hand.
He was handcuffed but refused to give up his phone.
Hone had to be subdued with incapacitant spray and called the officers "Welsh c***s" as he was driven to police headquarters in Llay.
The prosecutor said Ms Davey had been having radiotherapy for cancer, which the defendant knew about.
She suffered fractures to the base of two fingers which had been bent back, which now causes her pain when typing at work.
The court heard Ms Davey panics when she sees anyone similar to Hone and is anxious when she sees police cars as they remind her of the incident.
Stephen McNally, defending, said Hone was "ashamed and embarrassed" and "sincerely remorseful".
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Ms Davey had been the "love of his life" and he was "heartbroken" to have lost her, the court heard.
The court heard Hone had been a talented footballer with Blackburn Rovers from the age of 14 to 18 until a knee injury curtailed his career.
He now plays for Buckley Town and coaches youngsters.
The father-of-two started a floor resin firm employing his younger brother, and the company had carried out work at Buckingham Palace.
Hone pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm, assaulting an emergency worker - a police officer - and causing criminal damage.
Jailing Hone, the judge said the attack was motivated by jealousy and added: "Ms Davey was particularly vulnerable with ongoing radiotherapy."
As he was jailed for nine months and led to the cells, he shouted: "Absolute joke, pleb."
