A man who repeatedly breached a restraining order imposed as part of a suspended prison sentence for attacking his partner has been spared jail - again.
Stephen Partington, 40, a joiner, was told by a judge in 2021 he had avoided going straight to jail 'by the skin of your teeth' after he admitted beating his partner.
He hit her during a drink-fuelled row, causing her to fall and hit her head on a door. The father was handed a three-month suspended prison sentence and was made the subject of a five-year retraining order.
On Friday (February 16) he was back in court in front of a different judge who spared him a jail sentence after hearing his then partner had taken him back but then reported him to the cops after the relationship ended once more. Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link. The defendant repeatedly breached the order, contacting the woman with telephone calls and texts, between December 2021 and February the following year, prosecutor Matthew Todd told Manchester Crown Court.