A WOMAN beater who was jailed for assaulting an ex-girlfriend and snapping her umbrella had his sentence cut at the Court of Appeal.
Erran Gordon, aged 33, pulled out Laura Fletcher's hair extensions and deliberately broke her umbrella in two after bumping into the teenager following their break-up last January.
In December, Gordon, of Witchford Crescent, Newstead, was jailed for a total of 28 weeks at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court for criminal damage, common assault and breaching a suspended sentence.
But he appealed in London and won a 12-week cut in his sentence from Mr Justice Roderick Evans and Judge David Radford, who said 16 weeks was enough to mark the crimes.
Miss Fletcher told police that Gordon, who she had recently split up with, had called out to her in the street and attacked her.
He claimed he had been acting in self-defence, but was convicted after the jury heard the pulling of her hair had happened at the end of the incident.
It was not the first time the thug had been in trouble with the law in relation to women he had been going out with, Mr Justice Roderick Evans told the Court of Appeal.
"This appellant has appeared before the courts on three previous occasions and on each occasion for an offence committed on a former partner," he said.
"The sentencing judge was correct when he said the present offences had to be looked at in the context of the appellant's previous offences and the developing pattern of committing offences against previous partners.
"In our view, terms of immediate imprisonment were appropriate. However they were too long."
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