Boyfriend beat up partner in row over her birthday

A boyfriend who beat his partner so hard she had to play dead to get him to stop has been jailed for three years. Anthony Pulling, 58, punched Lynne Pritchard six times to the head and then slammed her head on the ground while she was still grieving her father’s death. Ms Pritchard had decided to end her relationship with jobless Pulling after he failed to make arrangements for her 60th birthday. Pulling stormed into her south London home on…