A woman who worried every day that her partner would kill her turned up at her neighbour's home looking like "something from a horror movie".
Nicholas Hamill forced his partner, who the ECHO has chosen not to name, to flee out of a window to escape his abuse and threw a mop bucket filled with water and bleach over her.
A court heard the woman was left 'mentally broken' by the 32-year-old's actions during the course of their three month relationship.
Dad of two Hamill appeared at Liverpool Magistrates' Court after breaching a Domestic Violence Protection Order (DVPO) which was imposed last Friday after he stabbed the woman with a fork.
A DVPO is a civil order which can be imposed when police make an application to the court in cases where there is insufficient evidence to bring a charge.
The order provides protection to victims of domestic violence in the immediate aftermath of an incident and can prevent any contact for up to 28 days.
Lee Bonner, prosecuting, explained that on March 25 the woman's cousin called 999 when the victim was "drunk and banging on her front door".
Her cousin and her grandmother were inside, Mr Bonner explained, but were "frightened to open the door".
Mr Bonner said the woman was "red faced" and "stumbling over her words" and "said she'd escaped out of the window of her flat because her partner had kept her against her will".
The woman also told officers Hamill had given her a "bust lip", "bruised face" and had "stabbed her multiple times to the leg with a fork".
Mr Bonner said officers attended the address but there was no reply, so they climbed through the bathroom window and "found the defendant asleep in bed".
He said: "She was worried everyday he may kill her and refused to make a formal complaint."
In a police interview Hamill denied assaulting the woman, who he had been in a relationship with for about three months.
Mr Bonner said there had been "several previous domestic incidents reported for this couple".
Hamill wasn't present to contest the application of the DVPO on March 26 and after it was made in his absence was hauled before the court for breaching it twice.
Mr Bonner explained on March 28 a neighbour called 999 after the woman "attended at her address with cuts and bruises".
He explained the neighbour sobbed as she told police the woman appeared at her door looking like "a horror movie" with "blood on her face, arms and chest".
The victim told her Hamill had "thrown a mop bucket of water and bleach" over her head and when officers went to her flat where there was an "overwhelming smell" of bleach, with the woman adding Hamill had also bitten her.
He said she was "so desperate at the way she had been treated by the defendant" and had attempted to take her own life.
The court heard the woman was "withdrawn" and "mentally broken" with "visible bruising to her cheek" and "swelling to the side of her head".
Mr Bonner explained the woman told officers "I've had enough, I've lost everything".
He said that the previous day the pair had been drinking into the early hours when Hamill had "switched on her".
Philip Quatron, a friend of Hamill's, provided a statement to police in which he explained both Hamill and the woman had been at his flat drinking on March 27.
Mr Bonner said: "The court will consider whether [the woman] was in fear of the defendant and how much free choice there was."
The court heard both left the flat to go to her home but Hamill returned with injuries, and the woman told police she had hit him as she had "had enough".
He has 20 previous convictions for 43 offences including battery in 2014 and 2016, affray in 2017, causing actual bodily harm in 2018.
Mr Bonner said Hamill has a "history of breaching court orders" but explained this is his first breach of a DVPO.
He explained that the court has the power to either impose a financial penalty or sentence Hamill to a prison sentence which could last between five days and two months.
Rachel Oakdene, defending, said: "This is the first breach, he has never been subject to one of these orders before."
Ms Oakdene asked any custodial term to be "as short as possible" to "allow him to take up employment".
She explained that on March 27 Hamill went to Mr Quarton's address where Hamill says the woman was already present.
Ms Oakdene said: "He confirms they were all drinking. The defendant would say there is a level of compliance on behalf of [the victim]".
Quoting Mr Quarton's statement Ms Oakdene said the woman and Hamill "both left in a Delta taxi" so they could gather his belongings.
She explained "that didn't happen" and Hamill stayed at the woman's address.
Ms Oakdene noted Hamill had scratches on his face and a bruise in the shape of a bite mark on his chest.
Hamill returned to Mr Quarton's address, Ms Oakdene said, and had "injuries to his face like he'd been in a car crash".
Ms Oakdene said: "He doesn't want contact with her any more, he doesn't seek a reconciliation."
She added that Hamill has no previous convictions in relation to this victim.
Ms Oakdene said a custodial sentence could mean he loses his accommodation and added Hamill was concerned about the impact it may have on his sons.
Ms Oakdene also asked the judge to consider the current impact of the pandemic on prisoners.
Hamill, of Sleepers Hill, Anfield, admitted two counts of breaching the DVPO on March 27 and March 28.
District Judge Paul Healey, sentencing, said: "This is a blatant disregard of the order. You simply ignored the terms of the order.
"Not only did you breach the order you went on to intimidate her and use violence on her.
"You ignored the order straight away then went on to subject her to extensive incidents of violence and really appalling behaviour."
The district judge said he was in "no doubt" Hamill should go to prison and jailed him for six weeks.
