Victim was battered by kerb crawler Carlos Cristo
A terrified prostitute jumped from a moving car after a man tried to strangle her with a USB cable.
Kerb crawler Carlos Cristo tried to bundle the woman in the back of his car after picking her up in Hillfields.
She managed to escape without serious injury when she made her dramatic escape.
During the attack, which lasted almost six minutes, he repeatedly punched and kicked his victim, who is in her early 20s, and tried to drag her back into the car.
The young woman had been working at night in Hillfields in March when a car pulled up and the driver asked what she did.
She said she agreed a price of £20 for sex, and got in his car and made small talk as he drove to Binley after asking her if she minded going that far.
She said: "We’ve gone down by the back of the church. He pulled down his sun visor and pulled a tenner out. I said we’d agreed 20. He said ‘Just do [a sex act], and I’ll go to a bank machine after'.
“I’ve heard that before, but I was desperate for money. I thought if he doesn’t go, I’ve still got a tenner. We had sex.
“Then I’ve got dressed and I’ve looked away to get the seat back upright. As I turned, he’s got this black wire in his hand, like a USB cable, and he’s got it round my neck."
Cristo accepted he had assaulted her after losing his temper, claiming she had stolen his phone, but denied putting a ligature round her neck.
But Recorder Benson rejected his version of events after hearing that when he was arrested the police had found four cables in his car, along with a knife.
They should string him up with a USB cable in the middle of Hillfields and leave him there!
