Man bit ex-partner's face and squeezed her throat outside her Cork home

Victim had a mark on her right cheek where she was bitten and her neck was marked, court heard

Accused wrote a letter to the court where he apologised to the victim and expressed his shame, court told. Picture: David Creedon / Anzenberger

A man rang his ex-partner to find out where she was and she told him where but when she returned home he assaulted her by biting her face and squeezing her throat.

Judge Dermot Sheehan imposed a sentence of two and a half years imprisonment on Shaun Tait, of An Duiche, Tipperary Town, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court for the assault he carried out on his ex-partner outside her apartment at Newcestown, Co Cork, on July 2.