A HARROW MAN WHO CARRIED OUT TWO VICIOUS AND BRUTA

A HARROW MAN WHO CARRIED OUT TWO VICIOUS AND BRUTAL ATTACKS

ON HIS GIRLFRIEND WAS JAILED FOR A TOTAL OF 15 MONTHS BY A JUDGE AT

ACTON CROWN COURT.

THE FIRST SAVAGE BEATING WAS A ‘COMPLETELY UNPROVOKED

ATTACK’, CARRIED OUT AFTER THE COUPLE HAD BEEN OUT FOR THE EVENING,

SAID MR DAVID BADCUP PROSECUTING.

TREVOR HICKS, 30, WHO LIVED WITH MRS PAULINE RYAN IN

COWAN AVENUE, HARROW KICKED THE TERRIFIED WOMAN REPEATEDLY AFTER THEY

ARRIVEDOME ON JNUE 19 THIS YEAR.

MRS RYAN, 27, WAS THEN DRAGGED BY HER HAIR INTO THE TOILET WHERE

HICKS BRUTALLY CONTINUED TO KICK HER, CONTINUED COUNSEL.

THE BLOWS WERE SO FEROCIOUS ONE WHICH MRS RYAN DODGED

MADE CONTACT WITH THE LAVATORY WHICH BROKE UNDER THE IMPACT.

STILL NOT SATISFIED HICKS DRAGGED THE HELPLESS WOMAN INTO HER

BEDROOM AND RAINED MORE KICKS ON HER.

KICKING HER IN THE FACE AND

STAMPING ON HER HANDS AND FEET, THE COURT HEARD.

A BONE IN HER FOOT WAS FRACTURED AND SHE WAS COVERED WITH
BRUISES FROM THE SAVAGE BEATING, SAID MR BADCUP.

MRS RYAN MANAGED TO ESCAPE INTO THE STREET AND FLED TO

THE SAFETY OF HARROW POLICE STATION.

HICKS WHO FOLLOWED HER TOLD A POLICE CONSTABLE ‘OF COURSE I

FUCKING HIT HER, SHE DESERVED IT’, ADDED COUNSEL.

MRS RYAN’S ORDEAL WAS NOT OVER, BECAUSE THREE MONTHS LATER
HICKS DEFIED AN INJUNCTION IN AN ATTEMPT TO PREVENT HER GIVING
EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM.

HE FOUND HER IN HER BEDROOM SHORTLY BEFORE SHE WAS DUE TO
GO TO COURT AND TOLD HER, WHEN SHE REFUSED TO DROP THE CHARGES ‘YOU

WON’T LIVE TO GET THERE’.

SECONDS LATER ‘HE GRABBED HER BY THE THROAT AND TRIED TO

THROTTLE HER.

HE PUNCHED HER IN THE NOSE, WHICH APPARENTLY HE HAD

PREVIOUSLY BROKEN, CAUSING IT TO BLEED’, MR BADCUP SAID.

AGAIN MRS RYAN ESCAPED TO THE SAFETY OF A POLICE STATION,
THE COURT HEARD.

HICKS, A FURNITURE REMOVAL MAN, HAS FOUR PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS

FOR CAUSING ACTUAL BODILY HARM, INCLUDING ONE FOR AN ASSAULT ON A

WOMAN WHO HE STRUCK SO HARD IN THE FACE A TOTH WAS KNOCKED OUT, THE

COURT HEARD.

HE PLEADED GUILTY IN OCTOBER AT HARROW MAGISTRATES COURT
TO TWO CHARGES OF ASSAULT AND CRIMINAL DAMAGE IN JUNE AND SEPTEMBER

THIS YEAR.

HE HAD BEEN COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE BY THE MAGISTRATES COURT.

MR PETER MCGRAIL DEFENDING, SAID THE FIRST ATTACK TOOK

PLACE THE DAY MRS RYAN RETURNED FROM A TWO DAY VISIT TO HER MOTHER.

COUNSEL SAID MRS RYAN HAD TAUNTED HICKS WHO HAD SUSPICIONS SHE

WAS SEEING ANOTHER MAN, AND HE BECAME ANGRY WITH HER, HE SAID.

ENDS.