A Bolton man who strangled his partner for around two minutes after saying he would kill her has been jailed.

Philip Norris had previously been sent to prison for multiple assaults against his partner.

But when he came out of jail in June this year he turned up at her home and asked to be taken back and said he had changed his ways.

But Bolton Crown Court heard quickly reoffended against the same woman again.

On June 26 this year he asked her to go out with him to help find some cigarettes.

She said she did not want to go out as she had just had a bath.

When he returned he took a trainer off and threw it at her face.

The 35-year-old cooked some chips and threw them at her.

The woman tried to get out the front door but realised it was locked.

She said “please do not hit me” and Norris said “hit you, I will kill you.”

Niamh McGinty, prosecuting, said: “He dragged her to the floor.

“He had his hands on the back of her neck and his thumbs on her windpipe.

“She describes being unable to breath.

“She states it felt like it went on for around two minutes.”

The woman then pressed a panic button in her bedroom which had been installed after previous offences by Norris.

He then said “thanks for that I am going to be arrested now.”

He let the home and was detained by police later that night.

Norris appeared in court to be sentenced after admitting intentional strangulation.

James Hayworth, defending, said: “There is nothing I can say that I going to improve his position.

“He has his perspective, that is not going to assist him.

“It is a disappointing incident.

“He does not wish for any further contact with her.”

Recorder Jeremy Lasker “This is a serious offence and it remains a serious offence even though there is no injury caused.

“It is becoming more and more prevalent.”

He jailed Norris, from Beatrice Mews, Horwich, for 27 months and applied a restraining order indefinitely.