Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A 'manipulative' man used his girlfriend 'as an ashtray' and put a cigarette out on her during a 'prolonged and sadistic attack' in a hotel room.
Mark Harrop, 38, also used the woman as a 'punching bag' during the terrifying ordeal, at the Britannia Airport Hotel in Northenden.
The pair had travelled to Manchester for a 'tryst', before Harrop launched the attack in the early hours. Harrop became angry after she 'innocuously' mentioned she had bought some cannabis previously.
He began to punch her and said: "If I think you are lying, I'm going to hit you." Manchester's courts are some of the busiest in the country with a vast array of cases heard
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