A drunken thug viciously attacked his girlfriend and trashed a city centre hotel room after she spoke with her ex on the phone.
Nicholas Davenport, 36, has been jailed after a vodka fuelled row turned violent, as she suffered a broken nose and bruising to her face.
During the attack, Davenport told the woman, a victim of domestic abuse previously,: "No wonder your ex has beaten you up."
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The couple, who had been in a relationship for 14 months, had booked two nights in the Castlefield Hotel in September last year.
After arriving on a Friday night they went for some drinks in the hotel bar, and she received a phone call from a former partner.
A row broke out as Davenport asked why she had been in contact, Manchester Crown Court heard.
The argument continued that night, and after they returned to their room later.
Davenport, from Salford, became angry and started shouting, before he began hitting her.
Later, after a hotel guest complained about the noise, a porter went to the room and spoke with Davenport.
He said there had been a 'misunderstanding' and that he hadn't done anything.
Shortly after, the woman emerged 'crying' and with visible bruising to her neck, and a swollen eye.
"I want to go, he has beaten me black and blue," she said.
The room had been 'trashed', and a curtain pole had been ripped off the wall, prosecutor Andrew Mackintosh said.
Davenport was later arrested and told police the couple had a 'heated argument', and admitted he had 'slapped' her.
The court heard she later contacted police to say she wanted to continue the relationship, and didn't want Davenport to be prosecuted.
Police later arrested him after he was found at her home, which breached his bail conditions.
Davenport, who has a previous conviction for assaulting another partner, was jailed for 20 months.
His barrister had appealed for him to be spared jail, saying the 'underlying' issues of Davenport's thinking needed to be addressed.
"It is the underlying thought processes that have caused him once again to become involved in jealous, violent behaviour," Rob Kearney said.
But a judge disagreed and sent him to prison.
"In the course of a drink fuelled, jealous rage, you launched a vicious and sustained violent assault upon your partner, a woman who you knew to have been a victim of domestic abuse in previous relationships," Judge Patrick Field QC said.
"In the course of that attack, you caused her widespread and undoubtedly painful bruising to her head and body, and you caused a fracture to her nose.
"I don't accept that this was impulsive and spontaneous, it was a long running argument that had been going on for some time."
Davenport, of Mark Avenue, Salford, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and criminal damage.
