A man who battered his former partner in front of a child - turning the woman's bedroom into a bloodbath - was jailed for 38 months today.
Dean Craig, 34, entered Kelly Stringer's locked home in Falkirk in the early hours of the morning, walked upstairs, and attacked her, breaking her jaw in several places, in the room where she was sleeping with the child He then ordered, Kelly, 32, and the child, to get into bed with him and threatened to slit their throats they told police what had happened.As he fell into a snoring sleep, they crept out terrified - and fled to their nearest police station.Sheriff Derek Hamilton said it had been a "brutal assault" and must have been a terrifying situation for Miss Stringer.He branded Craig "a danger to
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