The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
A Holbeach man who cut his former partner’s neck with a piece of broken mirror will be sentenced after a judge decides if he is dangerous.
Kristian Butcher, 31, admitted a charge of Section 18 wounding after injuring the woman during a protracted assault on June 3 this year.
Butcher, of Spalding Road, Holbeach, had gone back to the victim’s home after helping to find a pet cat but became angry after the woman began using her phone.
Lincoln Crown Court heard Butcher was trying to get back with his former partner after their relationship ended around a month earlier, but had been drinking.
Leanne Summers, prosecuting, said the attack began when Butcher slammed the woman backwards onto a bed, breaking the piece of furniture.
Butcher then aimed a punch at the woman as he left the room, but later continued the assault by putting his hands around her throat.
“She described being strangled several times,” Miss Summers added.
Miss Summers said Butcher also picked up a piece of glass from a mirror which had been broken during the struggle and used it to slash his former partner’s neck.
In her statement the woman described constantly asking Butcher to leave and said the incident only came to an end at around 3.30am.
“When he cut my neck I thought I was going to die,” the woman said in her victim impact statement.
The woman was taken to hospital the following morning and doctors noted a number of injuries including a five cms cut to her neck which required stitches, a cut on her right index finger and bruising to her face, chest and legs.
During his police interview Butcher denied causing the injuries and claimed his former partner had harmed herself.
The court heard Butcher had a number of previous convictions including for battery on another former partner.
Judge Catarina Sjolin Knight told Butcher he inevitably faced a sentence of custody.
But the judge said an assessment of his dangerousness would have to be made by the Probation Service before sentence could be passed because of his previous convictions.
Butcher was remanded into custody until October 2 when he will be sentenced at Lincoln Crown Court.
