A COURT has jailed a man who attacked his former partner after accusing her of being unfaithful.
Sentencing Ivor Rozentals to 48 weeks in prison at Bradford Crown Court, Mr Recorder Andrew Latimer told him: “This was domestic abuse involving violence and must be met with immediate custody.”
Prosecutor Joel Wootten said Rozentals, 36, of Walker Avenue, Bradford, had been in a relationship with the woman for a month at the time of the assault on August 10, 2022.
He had gone out leaving the woman asleep. She woke up when he returned at 12.30am as he was shouting into his phone.
He aggressively accused her of sleeping with his best friend, put his hands around her neck, and then pushed her onto a sofa before punching a hole in a door with his fist.
The woman suffered a cut lip during the short-lived assault.
He then told her he would kill her if she was not going to be quiet, a threat the woman took to be genuine as she knew he had been drinking and had taken cocaine.
He initially took her phone from her and pushed her down steps outside the house. She got the phone back and the police were eventually called.
In an interview via a Latvian interpreter, Rozentals admitted punching the door as he was angry but denied pushing the woman or making a threat to kill as he could not remember doing so.
When asked how he remembered certain things but not others he said, “no comment”.
He later pleaded guilty to ABH and criminal damage.
The court heard that Rozentals had previous convictions for assault causing actual bodily harm, for dishonesty, and for being drunk and disorderly.
Mitigating, Lauren Smith said Rozentals felt “deeply ashamed” for what he did and had expressed his remorse.
She said no weapon had been used during the incident and that the victim had received no injuries to her neck in what she described as “a spontaneous, impulsive, and short-lived assault”.
Recorder Latimer said the victim saw the violence Rozentals had used, believed he was under the influence of alcohol and cocaine, and that the threat to her life was genuine.
As well as jailing Rozentals he made him the subject of a five-year restraining order preventing him from contacting the victim directly.
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