‘When I woke up I beat up my girlfriend. How about that?’

An enraged lover threatened to kill his girlfriend after she refused to do household chores, a court heard. Michael Chesaites, 44, went out to buy a few cans of lager and spent the afternoon drinking in his home before passing out. After waking up Chesaites battered Rebecca Windibank with his fists and feet fracturing her eye socket, jurors heard. He beat her unconscious and then fell asleep next to her, it was said. Chesaites renewed the assault the next day…