A MAN who “savagely” attacked his former partner as she held a baby and a young child has been jailed.

Jason Daniel Rhodes, 24, forced his way into the woman’s house late at night, said David Ward, prosecuting.

She dialled 999 and told police “this time he’ll kill me”.

The control room operator heard Rhodes say: “You cheated on me, I’ll .... bite you, I will .... kill you” and then the woman screaming as he dispatched officers to her aid.

Blood spattered onto the children’s clothes as Rhodes bit her arm and head-butted her face, cutting her near her eye.

The baby was ten-months-old and the child was seven-years-old, Mr Ward told York Crown Court.

Rhodes had broken the door to get in and was arrested at the scene when police quickly arrived.

He was on two suspended prison sentences for a drugs offence and driving whilst banned and on bail for another alleged assault at the time.

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Judge Andrew Stubbs QC said: “There is absolutely no doubt that she was petrified about what you were going to do.

“This was undeniably a cowardly and shameful assault which you committed against a defenceless woman, who at the time you were savagely beating her had your child and her child in her arms.”

Rhodes, formerly of New Earswick and now of no fixed address, was jailed for two years and nine months including five months from the suspended sentences.

He was also made subject to a restraining order banning from contacting the woman or going to the street where she lives indefinitely.

He admitted forcing entry into her house and causing her actual bodily harm, both on December 30.

His barrister Glenn Parsons said Rhodes was high on drink and drugs when he went to the woman’s house and therefore remembered very little of what happened.

“He is sorry, he is remorseful, he is thoroughly ashamed of his conduct,” said Mr Parsons.

Rhodes had been told by people “with mischief intent” that the woman had been unfaithful to him, although, as he now accepted, that was false.

“He then takes drink and drugs and went round to the house where he made things 100 times worse,” said Mr Parsons.

Mr Ward said the woman received hospital treatment for her injuries, and discharged herself because she was concerned for the welfare of the two children.