A personal trainer repeatedly struck his seriously ill girlfriend with a steel baton through the night after she couldn't unlock her mobile for him.
Anthony Frost, who works as a cleaning supervisor but does charity work as a personal trainer, woke up his victim in bed by throwing water over her and holding a lighter in front of her face, before overturning her mattress, a court heard.
The 54-year-old insisted she put the password in her phone so he could access her online banking account. But the victim was 'incredibly sleepy' due to medication she was taking for fibromyalgia - a condition that causes widespread pain and extreme tiredness.
She couldn't remember the password or make the fingerprint work. READ NEXT: Police want to speak to this man after report of 'predatory' upskirting outside bar on busy street In anger, Frost, from Northwich in Cheshire, then repeatedly hit her with an extendable steel baton, Warrington Magistrates' Court was told.
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