drunk thug set fire to his girlfriend's clothes and son's school report after she wouldn't have sex with him. Dean Jefferson downed gin when he returned home drunk and lost his temper when his partner spurned him, TeesideLive reported.
The violent episode took place early morning in March last year, Newcastle Crown Court heard. Vince Ward, prosecuting, said: "He pulled a chest of drawers over in the bedroom and threw five of them at the wall and smashed holes in the back of them."He barricaded her into the bedroom using a door that was waiting to be fitted.
He then set fire or tried to set fire to various objects in the flat."One was a sock. That didn’t catch light."Another was his son’s school report – Miss Etheridge stamped that out.
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