Warwick man stamped on partner’s teen daughter's head while on bail for attacking a work colleague

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The judge said he had a 'entrenched inability' to control his temper



A Warwick man with an inability to control his violent temper stamped on the head of his partner’s teenage daughter while he was on bail for a similar attack on a work colleague.

And at Warwick Crown Court carpenter Alexander Barker paid the price for his viciousness – when he was jailed for a total of four years and eight months.

Barker, 34, of Deansway, Warwick, had pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm and wounding, as well as two assaults on his then-partner.

Jailing Barker, Judge Peter Cooke told him: "You clearly have an entrenched inability to control your temper when things get on top of you in a domestic or work context.

"On March 9 you launched an unprovoked attack on a carpenter working on the same site as you with kicks and stamps which left him with a facial fracture.

"Sadly matters didn’t end there. Just weeks after you had been bailed you flew into a rage and kicked a door so savagely it flew off its hinges and knocked your ex partner full in the face, knocking her out. It was an ill-tempered and thoroughly reckless act.

"Only ten days later you assaulted the woman again. This was a much more worrying episode. It was not reckless, but quite deliberate and involved 30 seconds of manual strangulation."

The judge said the final incident arose after his ex's daughter had come to appreciate Barker as ‘a manipulative cuckoo,’ and had greeted him ‘with a series of snide remarks'.

He added: "You are quite incapable of shrugging off such a sleight. You completely lost control and launched a savage attack on that young woman, knocking her to the floor and kicking or stamping on her.

"This time you were not attacking another able-bodied man. It was a 33-year-old kick boxer attacking an 18- or 19-year-old girl."