Thug who brutally knocked his girlfriend out in middle of the street in chilling attack caught on Ring doorbell footage is jailed

Daily Mail​

9 hours ago

A thug has been jailed after shattering his girlfriend's eye socket in an unprovoked brutal street attack that left her unconscious.
Thomas Jennings struck his partner with a mobile phone in a seemingly motiveless attack before throwing her to the floor and kicking her in the head.
The sickening assault in Harbreck Grove, Liverpool on March 31 knocked her out, smashed her eye socket and broke her jaw.
Career criminal Jennings, 30, left his girlfriend motionless in the street and began walking away before telling one witness: 'If you filmed me, I'll f****** burn your house down.'
But he has now been jailed after admitting causing grievous bodily harm with intent to then-girlfriend Paula Richardson, who was found with a gash to her head and still suffers vision problems after undergoing surgery.
Liverpool Crown Court heard on Thursday that Jennings assaulted Ms Richardson'on a residential street in broad daylight' after approaching her and repeatedly striking her with a mobile phone 'without hesitation'.
'You little slapper,' Jennings can be heard saying in the footage as he hits her across the face.
'You little f******, s***, get in the car now,' he yells, before he begins raining blows down on her as she begs him to 'please stop'.
She then yells 'get off me' before Jennings aims a kick at her head, leaving her seemingly dazed, sitting upright.
The second kick appears to knock her out. She lies motionless in the road as neighbours rush to help.
Julian Nutter, defending Jennings during his latest appearance, told the court: 'We have a defendant here who has suffered mental health issues over a number of years, which may or may not have been drug related.
'We have a defendant who, for the first time, has been demonstrating remorse and has put forward an apology for what he has done.
'He is deeply ashamed for what he did to this lady. That is the first step on the road to reform, and he has taken it.
'What we have seen, there cannot be any excuse for. What he asked me to do is to repeat his apology, and that is the start of a very long path.'
Jennings admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
Sentencing, Recorder Mark Bradshaw said: 'This incident happened in the street in broad daylight. The footage we have all seen is, frankly, chilling.
'It appears that very little happened before you simply, without hesitation, struck her repeatedly to the head and face with a mobile phone used as a weapon.
'After she fell to the ground, you delivered two kicks to the head, the last of which rendered her unconscious. You then simply walked away. It was, in my judgement, a cowardly attack.
'It is plain that the consequences could have been far worse. It is fortunate for you that they were not.
'This offence represents an escalation in terms of your violent offending. You continued attacking someone who was lying on the floor and was defenceless.
'It is aggravated by the domestic context of the assault and the threats to the member of the public who tried to intervene.'
Jennings, it can now be reported, has a long record of criminal behaviour: 36 convictions for 64 offences, including drugs and firearms offences.
In 2020, he was jailed for 92 months after handling a weapon that was used in a shooting that later led to Mikey Rainsford, 20, being shot dead in a tit-for-tat act of gang violence.
Jennings had provided a gun to another member of the so-called Kirkstone Riot Squad, Darren Russell, to shoot Lewis Gubb in September 2019.
Gubb's associate, James Foy and his older brother Michael, then shot dead Mr Rainsford despite the fact he had no involvement in gangs. Both are serving life terms.
On Jennings' latest offence, the judge added: 'It occurred while you were on licence for the weapons offences, leading to your second recall on those offences.
'I have regard to your significant mental health issues due to the passing of your mother.
'You have used drugs, which added to your anxiety and paranoia and caused suicidal thoughts. I take into account your difficult upbringing.'
Jennings, appearing via video link to HMP Liverpool wearing a white Asics t-shirt, was jailed for four years and handed an extended licence period of three years.