Two horrific domestic assaults which shocked a Teesside judge have put a vicious assailant behind bars for more than 11 years.
Allan Bogan, 37, left his partner covered in bruises and needing emergency surgery.
First he attacked her in her Middlesbrough home for no reason on May 2 last year.
He punched her and hit her to the head with a metal bar and a phone, Teesside Crown Court heard.
Then he suffocated her to the point of unconsciousness, said prosecutor Paul Rooney.
When she came around he put a plastic bag over her head and pulled it tight until she had to claw her way through the bag with her fingers.
After this terrifying assault - one of the worst of its kind a judge had ever seen - she went to court and took out a non-molestation order against him.
Yet worse was still to come as Bogan found his way back into her life.
They were at his flat in Middlesbrough when he accused her of seeing other men on Facebook.
She told him she did not know what she was talking about as she did not even have an account on the social media platform.
Bogan sat her down then subjected her to a prolonged attack, punching, elbowing and kicking her body.
The brutal assault carried on for about 40 minutes on September 17 last year.
He told her he would do this because she would not dare show anybody.
When she got out of the flat the next day, she tried not to tell anyone as she was so scared, but eventually confided in family members.
She was covered in bruises to part of her lower body - injuries which a judge described as horrendous.
She was taken to hospital where she had to have emergency surgery to remove a blood clot.
When he was arrested, Bogan claimed she injured herself by slipping while climbing a fence.
The prosecution said a doctor found this was very unlikely, and the injuries were more likely caused by blunt force trauma.
Bogan, of Ellerbeck Way, Ormesby, Middlesbrough, was due to stand trial this week.
On the day of trial he pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm for the first assault and causing grievous bodily harm with intent for the second.
The judge, Recorder Dafydd Enoch QC, jailed him for a total of 11-and-a-half years.
Bogan was locked up for three-and-a-half years for the first assault, plus eight years for the second.
He was also given an indefinite restraining order to protect the victim.
It bans him from communicating with her by any means, instructing anyone else to do so or going within 100m of any premises where he believes her to be present.
“He has to have absolutely no contact with her and go nowhere near her,” said the judge.
