Violinist stands by ‘soulmate’ who throttled her

A wealthy pianist who throttled his ‘petrified’ girlfriend in a drunken rage after smashing down her chain-locked door and chasing her around her flat has been spared jail. Daniel Evans, 31, left Oxford-educated violinist Alexandra Knight struggling to swallow after he broke in and grabbed her around the throat at her home in Upper Addison Gardens, Holland Park. He had drunk more than half a gallon of cider when he began making ‘offensive and inappropriate’ comments at the classical musician…