Man strangled, bit and smacked ‘friend with benefits’ who wanted to spend more time with him

A man who subjected a ‘friend with benefits’ to sickening verbal and physical abuse has avoided jail.

Gregory Linvao James Williams, 39, pleaded guilty to two assaults and sending a threatening message at Bolton Magistrates’ Court, following a number of incidents in Bolton on July 17 2021.

Williams met his victim - who is 16 years his junior - at around 7pm that evening and accused her of sleeping with his cousin, the court heard.

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He then squeezed the woman’s neck for around a minute - she was struggling to breathe and was crying.

A passer-by asked what Williams was doing and he replied: “What has it got to do with you?”

He then let go and walked off in a different direction.

They arranged to meet again at Astley Bridge Park because the victim had some alcohol that belonged to Williams but as soon as he arrived he called her a ‘tramp’ and ‘a little wh***’.

Williams then bit the woman’s right ear and it started to bleed.

Later that evening, he sent her messages in which he said that he would ‘stab her’ and ‘beat her up in front of her mum and dad’.

He threatened to ‘take her somewhere no one could find her, keep her there for weeks and get a ransom for her’.

Williams then asked the woman if he could meet her at a nearby Asda so he could borrow her card and withdraw money.

When she met him, he called her a ‘tramp’, a ‘smelly little b****’ and ‘scum on his shoe’.

Williams then bit her lip and ‘backhanded’ her - she eventually managed to run away and get home.

In a victim personal statement, the woman said the incidents have left her ‘terrified to go outside’.

“I keep reliving the experience and cry whenever I think about it,” she