Man strangled girlfriend and shoved fingers down her throat after she found his secret Snapchat account

A man strangled his girlfriend after she found he had a secret Snapchat account full of messages from other women. Derius Campbell, 22, was confronted by the woman about the account and an argument ensued.

During the row he picked up a butter knife and threatened her, before taking away her mobile phone. She later received a message from a woman claiming to have met up with him days before, Manchester Crown Court heard.

After challenging him about it, he grabbed her by the throat and left her ‘gasping for air’. He also ‘shoved’ two fingers down her throat.

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Campbell, of Moss Side, pleaded guilty to intentional strangulation, threatening a person with a blade and a breach of a suspended sentence. This week (April 4) he was jailed for over two years.

Duncan Wilcock, prosecuting, told the court that the couple had been on-and-off for a number of years before the incident in September last year. The woman, 20, was at her mum’s house when she realised she had left some baby milk at another address.

Campbell offered to go and pick it up, leaving his phone behind.

“She said she looked at his phone and found there was another Snapchat account and when she looked at it she discovered it was full of messages from other females,” Mr Wilcock said.

An argument ensued, during which he asked her to call him a taxi but she refused. He then said to her: “You’ve got five seconds to ring a taxi, if you have not done it by then watch what happens.”

She didn’t call a taxi, the prosecutor said, and Campbell grabbed her by the hair before picking up a butter knife and threatening to damage her phone. He then pointed the knife towards her which left her ‘scared’.

He then