A thug and a woman beater told his daughter he would find her mother and put her in the hospital. Connar Shaw, 31, assaulted his ex-partner with one harrowing occasion seeing a beating laid down in front of their terrified children.
The abusive man from Firvale, Rotherham cried as he read out a letter of apology at Derby Crown Court after being jailed for his vile actions. On the occasion of that brutal assault, his daughter “closed her eyes and covered her ears” as she felt the car shaking, reports DerbyshireLive.
Shaw was also said to have branded the beaten woman as "looking like a man in drag" while the court heard of another incident in which he said to his child: 'I will find your mother and put her in A&E’.
Being jailed for two-and-a-half years, Judge Shaun Smith KC said: “Behaviour like this is simply not acceptable. This woman is absolutely terrified, and quite rightly so, of what might happen in the future.
“You are now in a new relationship, you are going to move away from the area and you have a good support network. Your parents and family are all here to support you. But this really nasty case is not about you, it is about what you did and what you inflicted on (the victim).”
Abigail Joyce, prosecuting, said Shaw and the woman had been in a relationship for 12 years and have two children together. However, the woman later described the relationship as “toxic”. On August 8, 2021, both parents had been drinking when people heard shouting and screaming as the family were sitting in a car.
The prosecutor said: “He was threatening to drag her out of the car and then he did pull her out and grabbed her by her hair. The children were in the car at the time and their daughter closed her eyes and covered her ears as she felt the car shaking with the force.
“(A short time later) at her home in Killamarsh neighbours heard a man and woman shouting at each other and saw him climb through the window and then heard her shouting ‘no’ repeatedly before he ran out and left in her car.”
Police were called and found the victim had suffered a cut to her lip and a suspected fractured jaw which ended up not being a fracture. A second incident took place near Buxton on July 19, 2022 while Shaw was on bail for the first offence.
The prosecutor said Shaw had been with his children while the victim was out at a quarry near Buxton. Miss Joyce said: “He turned up and began calling her names saying she looked like a man in drag.
“She told him to leave her alone but he punched her to the eye and the face, she felt blood dripping on her arm. Her daughter later said that (before he left) he said to her ‘I will find your mother and put her in A&E’.”
He pleaded guilty to two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He has previous convictions for violence. In a victim impact statement Shaw's ex-partner says she has suffered mental and physical abuse at his hands and “is frightened that one day he will kill her” and that she “just wants him to leave her alone".
Glenn Harris, mitigating, said his client has now entered a new relationship with a woman in Durham where he plans to live and work as a landscape gardener when he is released from prison. Shaw appeared by video-link from HMP Nottingham and cried as he read out a letter of apology to the judge.
Harris said: “He is 31 and has a rather unattractive list of previous convictions all of which seem to be borne from alcohol abuse.”
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