A ‘HORRIBLE bully’ who beat his former partner until her face looked like it had been used as a punch bag has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.

Kristian Haworth caused the woman the ‘most horrendous injuries,’ covering her body in bites, the judge sentencing him said. 

Haworth, 42, formerly of Silsden, near Keighley, but remanded to HMP Leeds, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to assaulting his victim causing her actual bodily harm on November 21 last year.

Abdul Shakoor, prosecuting, told Bradford Crown Court that the prolonged assault took place at the address they shared at the time.

Haworth had previous convictions for robbery, battery and public order offences.

His barrister, Peter Hampton, said that he had excellent references from the prison.

“When sober, he’s a different man,” he told the court.

He had taken steps to address his offending behaviour while he was remanded.

“He knows what he had done and how appalling it was,” Mr Hampton said.

Haworth was now doing his very best to address his issues.

He had accepted that the relationship had ended. A restraining order would be put in place to protect the woman from him in the future.

The judge, Recorder Dafydd Enoch KC, said it was as serious as an offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm could get.

‘It was a despicable cowardly attack. You behaved like a horrible bully and a violent one at that,’ he told Haworth.

The assault was prolonged, lasting several hours, and he had caused ‘the most horrendous injuries.’

Recorder Enoch said he had seen photographs of the victim.

“Her face looks like it’s been used as a punch bag and her body is covered in bite marks,” he said.

“It was domestic violence against a helpless woman who thought she was going to be killed.”

But the recorder said he had to take account of the unusually excellent references that Haworth had earned while on remand in Leeds Prison.

He had done incredibly well and that had to be recognised to encourage him, and to get the message out to others that such positive behaviour would be recognised by the courts.

Recorder Enoch made an indefinite restraining order banning Haworth from contacting his victim or going near her home.