Man bites pregnant girlfriend twice in the neck in car park of The Range store

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A man bit his pregnant girlfriend twice in the neck in the car park of a The Range store, a court heard. Zach Skeech, 19, was said to have flew into a rage when the mum-to-be hugged a mutual friend.

A crown court judge was told it wasn't the first time he has sunk his teeth into a woman, having bitten a previous partner who he also shot with a BB gun.

At the end of a sentencing hearing, he said he wouldn't seek another relationship on his release from prison. The judge called his attack 'particularly vindictive and cruel' and said he had 'no doubt that you intended her scars to be visible'. READ MORE: 'Urgent' investigation update issued following horror double bus crash on edge of Manchester city centre Liverpool Crown Court heard on Tuesday that Grace McCarthy received a text from her now ex-boyfriend Skeech inviting her to meet with friends in St Helens town centre on February 19 this year.

After meeting in the car park of The Range on Chalon Way, she hugged their mutual acquaintance, Damian Morton. But Helen Chenery, prosecuting, described how this provoked "jealousy and anger" in the defendant, who reacted by telling her that he was "going to have her unborn child taken off her".