Sunday, September 21, 2008

Putting One's Foot Down

An English man was given 15 months in jail for assaulting his girlfriend after he found out she was cheating on him. As reported by the Telegraph, Toni Milton, 38, mistakenly dialed Neil O'Brien's number on her mobile phone while she was making love to an ex-boyfriend.

Milton only realized she had accidentally pressed the redial button on her mobile phone when she heard O'Brien shouting at her over the phone line. When she picked up the phone he said: "I take it we're finished then?"

O'Brien, 41, said the sound of his girlfriend sleeping with another man caused him to flip out. Because he then drove 15 miles to her house and stamped on her face so hard he left a shoeprint, according to testimony heard in the Leicester crown court.

He was jailed for 15 months after a judge said even the "unusual circumstances" of the incident would not save him from prison.


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