A MAN who had been drinking all day on Valentine’s Day struck his partner to the face in a pub.
The force caused her to hit her head on the back of the wooden bench where she had been sitting.
Jonathan Tasker, 26, went round to the home of partner Rachel Griffiths at Ewloe the following day – and was told it was all over.
He reacted by throwing a laptop computer twice at a wall, smashing it and damaging the wall.
Tasker, of Hawthorn View in Sealand, admitted assault at The Clwyd in Shotton on February 14, and damaging property the following day.
Sentence was adjourned at Flintshire magistrates’ court.
Prosecutor Christine O’Kane said the couple had been in a relationship for five years and split up last September, but in January they decided to give it another go.
On Sunday, February 14, the couple had been to a relative’s Christening with their 17-month-old daughter, and it was alleged that the defendant had been drinking.
Miss Griffiths had been looking after the baby, but then at about 10pm she joined the defendant in the pub.
To start with Tasker was in a happy mood, but he started drinking shorts and became very drunk.
When he spilled his drink she tried to move away.
But the next thing she was aware of was being struck to the left side of her face.
The defendant had also struck himself on the head with a phone and said that he was going to kill himself, the court heard.
Ceri Evans, defending, said that her client had been drinking for much of the day, did not recall precisely what had happened, but accepted his responsibility for what he had done and was very remorseful.
