Mansfield thug 'threw partner from moving car and beat her outside parents' home'

Jamie Burbanks was driving around Clipstone at around 11.30pm, on May 19, last year, when he grabbed the woman by her hair and pushed her out of the car door.

Prosecutor Mark Knowles said Burbanks later stopped the car outside her home and threw her on the floor, then bent down and slammed her against the pavement twice.

The woman's screams brought neighbours out of their homes and Burbanks drove off, Nottingham Crown Court heard on Thursday.

When police arrived, the 25-year-old woman said "he had done it before but didn't want to take it much further at that time."

She was taken by ambulance to hospital, where she was treated for a gashed head, cuts to her hands and a fractured collarbone.

"He told police that she was the aggressive one and wasn't aware he caused any injury," said Mr Knowles.

Claire Moran, mitigating, said Burbanks, a bricklayer, was "fully aware of how serious this offence is."

She said no restraining order was sought, as he and the woman are still in a relationship, and the woman is 18 weeks' pregnant with their first child.

Judge Timothy Spencer QC noted that Burbanks was jailed for five years in 2013 for thrusting a glass into the face of his ex-girlfriend's new partner.

And fairly shortly after his release, in August 2016, he was convicted of battery against a different former girlfriend.

Burbanks, 30, of Heathfield Way, pleaded guilty to GBH without intent in February.

"To do what you did was appalling," the judge told Burbanks. "But I can see from your expression you are genuinely ashamed.

"If I lock you up today, it will simply undo all the good of the last year."

But he warned him to control his temper or he wouldn’t get the same degree of mercy again.

Burbanks was sentenced to 16 months, suspended for two years, and was ordered to go on the building better relationships course, which he had failed to complete before.