A man shown grinning in his police mugshot subjected his girlfriend to a year long campaign of abuse over their relationship.
Roy Croft, 47, manipulated and controlled her before his behaviour escalated into physical violence during a holiday to Tenerife in May 2024.
In a horrifying assault, Croft seized the woman by her neck before holding her down on a bed, the Liverpool ECHO reports. In a hearing at Liverpool Crown Court on January 22 prosecutor Kenneth Grant told the court: "She was hyperventilating.
She had to flee the hotel room, hiding from the defendant in the lobby." Following the assault, the couple split up and returned to the UK.
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