A violent thug left his partner fearing death by strangling her three times after rejecting a cuddle. Leonard Tyler turned nasty for no apparent reason after spending the night at his then-girlfriend's home. Newcastle Crown Court heard he repeatedly wrapped his hands around her neck and threw her to the floor in an attack spanning 20 minutes.
After being arrested, he then smeared his own excrement on the walls and door of his police cell in a sickening dirty protest. Now Tyler, who had been released from prison on licence after being locked up for robbery, is back behind bars. The court heard Tyler had stayed over at his then-partner's home in Lynemouth, Northumberland in August this year.
There had been no issues that night but after waking up the following day, the woman tried to cuddle Tyler, prompting him to tell her to "get the f*** off me". As a result, the woman went to go downstairs and he demanded to know where she was going. Gabrielle Wilks, prosecuting, said: "She said she was going downstairs.
He grabbed her and began pulling her back saying 'you're not going downstairs like that you stupid **** get some clothes on'. "She was dragged onto the bed and he got on top of her and wrapped his hands around her neck and began squeezing really hard, in her words, with such force it restricted her breathing. "At the time, she said she thought she was going to die.
She told him to get off her and leave her address. "She got up intending to go downstairs but the defendant gra.
