A brute broke his partner's arm when he battered her with a chair leg.Airdrie Sheriff Court heard that when the woman pleaded with James Graham to stop and asked why he was trying to hurt her, he replied: "'I'm not trying.
I am hurting you."Graham, 27, admitted assaulting the woman to her severe injury at her home in Lochlea Road, Cumbernauld, on November 27 last year.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.
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He pinned her on a bed and tried to cover her face with a pillow, but she managed to push it away.He grabbed her and she hit him as she tried to break free, causing his nose to bleed.
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