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A vile boyfriend who tried to bite his pregnant fiancée’s eyeball out and beat her unconscious is back behind bars.
Benjamin Jones, 30, bit his partner’s face, pulled her mouth apart and spat inside before headbutting her while violently pulling her hair at their home in Attleborough, Norfolk.
He tried to bite her eye out, telling her that he would disfigure her so that no one else would want her after celebrating news of her pregnancy.
But fortunately his teeth missed and instead he gouged out a chunk of her eyebrow.
Vile Jones is now back behind bars after trying to contact the victim, who has a 10-year restraining order against him.
During his original sentencing, the court had heard details of his campaign of terror against his partner with the couple having met in in 2021, when she was 24.
They had bonded over a drink and enjoyed a whirlwind romance, involving lavish holidays and expensive gifts.
However, shortly after their engagement the violence escalated.
The attack in which he bit her face came after the couple had celebrated the news of her pregnancy with family in the town.
She had returned home earlier but when she heard him pull up in their driveway he became loud and violent.
Fearful for her life, she called 999 before hiding her phone where he would not be able to find it.
Jones grabbed her off the toilet, put her in the bath and ripped her engagement ring from her finger.
He pulled her mouth apart and spat inside, before headbutting her in the face while violently pulling her hair.
Jones then dragged her through the bedroom by her hair and began strangling her.
In a statement to police she said she thought she was going to die, and when officers found her, she was unconscious and Jones had fled the scene.
It took the police two days to arrest him, while she recovered in hospital.
Police were told the victim had received a black eye, hand prints from slaps across her body and scarring from other assaults.
They also heard that she had been thrown outside naked and made to sleep there, in freezing temperatures.
Jones also put her in the back of his car in her pyjamas and told her he was going to put her in a ditch.
He violently beat her before chucking her out on the side of the road.
On other occasions, he slammed her foot in the door, smashed several phones, caused bruising by slapping her and pushed her downstairs.
Jones, previously of Attleborough was convicted last June of two charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and another of assault by beating, all relating to his sustained abuse of his partner.
He also pleaded guilty to criminal damage to property valued under £5,000 and possession of a Class A drug, cocaine, and possession of a Class B drug, cannabis and cannabis resin.
Jones was held on remand before his sentencing and had served a total of 18 months in prison before he was released on license.
His recall has led domestic violence groups to question whether abusers are being let out of jail too quickly.
A police spokesman said: ‘A 30-year-old man has been arrested and recalled to prison.’
Emma Nurse, of Leeway Domestic Violence and Abuse Services, said: ‘It’s important that the dangers that perpetrators of domestic abuse pose is fully recognised.
‘We know that they will go to extreme lengths to continue to maintain their power and control over their victim, including disregarding any restrictions that are put in place to keep victims safe.
‘While we know that there are many challenges posed due to the overcrowding of prisons, the safety of victims must be the priority and we support the view of national organisations, such as Women’s Aid, that perpetrators of domestic abuse must be exempt from early release.
‘It’s important that we send out a strong message that domestic abuse is not tolerated and that tough action will be taken against perpetrators, whilst ensuring the safety of survivors.’
