A thug bit off his girlfriend's ear in front of horrified tourists outside a bar in Blackpool after a day drinking in the seaside resort.
Aiden Dickinson, 21, has been jailed for seven years after a series of attacks on the woman including a separate incident in which he set upon her whilst pregnant and sunk his teeth into her.
Preston Crown Court heard that on June 24 last year, the couple were staying in a hotel room after a day of heavy drinking. A row broke out and Dickinson began punching furniture. READ MORE: Heartbreak after teenager, 16, dies after inhaling laughing gas at party He smashed a mirror and grabbed his partner around the throat, pushing her against a wall and biting her cheek.
As she pleaded with him to stop, Dickinson bit harder before pushing her onto the floor and dragging her to a bed where he continued punching her face and arms, Lancs Live reports. "You bit her legs in various places, you were abusive to her and you tried to stop her fleeing the hotel and down the road", Recorder Julian Shaw, sentencing, said.
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