Racist thug is jailed for 26 weeks after battering his girlfriend with a rolling pin

A racist thug who attacked his girlfriend with a rolling pin and threatened to ‘take her eyes out’ with a knife during a shocking outburst of violence has been jailed for 26 weeks.

Drunk David Turner ‘went berserk’, grabbed the terrified woman by the throat and pulled her around by the neck and hair as he assaulted her at his father’s North Shields home after an argument erupted over money, a court heard.

The 33-year-old struck the victim on the knuckles, knee and ankle with a rolling pin, leaving her with bruising and swelling, before throwing her out of the house in her bare feet.

North Tyneside Magistrates Court heard how Turner threatened his victim when she returned to pick up belongings, warning he would ‘take her f****** eyes out’ with a knife.

When the police arrived, Turner had to be forcibly restrained after he repeatedly ‘snarled’ at officers and tried to bite them.

He was eventually taken to a police station but then defecated in his cell, prosecutors said.

Turner was bailed and awaiting a court appearance for those offences when, just three-months-later, he was arrested again for a separate matter.

This time, when he arrived at the police station, the thug hurled appalling racist abuse at a police officer, calling him a ‘p****’ and threatening to slit his throat.

At previous court hearings, Turner pleaded guilty to breaching a non-molestation order, resisting a police officer and criminal damage but denied two counts of common assaults on his partner and assaulting an emergency worker.

He was later found guilty at a trial in his absence as he failed to attend.

Turner also pleaded guilty to a racially-aggravated public order offence, in relation to the abuse shouted at the police officer, but fled from the court building before he could be sentenced.

A warrant was issued for his arrest and Turner, of Dorset Avenue Wallsend, appeared at North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, where he also admitted failing to surrender to custody.

Locking him up for a total of 26 weeks, District Judge Paul Currer said his behaviour was ‘despicable’.

The judge said: ‘You lost your temper when you were excessively drunk and assaulted her [his partner], not just with your hands but with a rolling pin. That’s despicable.

‘You treated her with complete disdain. When she came back after she thought you calmed down, you used a knife to threaten to take her eyes out – that’s appalling behaviour.’ 

Through his solicitor, Stuart Moore, Turner made a plea to the judge to be given ‘one more chance’ and not be sent to prison.

Mr Moore said: ‘He’s 33 and has significant difficulties in terms of educational ability and emotional skills and mental health.

‘He appreciates the difficult situation he finds himself in and is aware you will be considering custody.

‘He does ask me to ask you to consider an alternative. He’s got these difficulties and last year was a year he was overwhelmed by tragedies when two of his uncles, a cousin and his dad all died in a very short space of time.

‘His head was all over the place.’