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A woman who was nine months pregnant had her head banged on the floor repeatedly and was kneed in the stomach by her drunken boyfriend.

It was the second attack on a woman Jason Littler had carried out in the space of a year. In the first horrific assault, he knocked a woman out cold in a town centre pub.

Littler, 40, walked up to victim Melanie Lowell at the Golden Lion pub in Wrexham on March 1 last year and asked her aggressively why she was 'telling my girlfriend I hit women?"

Scared, Ms Lowell tried to put a coat stand between her and Littler, but he grabbed her and threw her across the floor.

She struck her head on a table and blacked out.

Then, on January 6 this year, while on a suspended sentence, he attacked his girlfriend Melissa Williams.

They had just got back from a night out celebrating his birthday.

He had drunk seven pints, some shots, and taken a line of cocaine. Miss Williams who was nine months pregnant, had drunk four pints herself.

When they arrived home, Littler became aggressive. The police came and Miss Williams was taken to stay with a friend.

But she came home around midnight, and Littler came downstairs and "flew off the handle".

He grabbed her by the hair, took her to the ground and banged her head against the floor on four occasions.

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She was nine months pregnant at the time and he kneed her to the stomach and punched her to the jaw.

He then got a pair of scissors and cut some of her hair before returning upstairs.

She locked herself in a downstairs toilet and rang the police.

At Mold crown court on Wednesday, he admitted two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Judge David Hale told him when he was sober he would look back on what he had done in disgust.

Duncan Bould, defending, said Littler would have been prepared to admit the second assault on an earlier occasion if the prosecution papers had been ready.

Littler had a good work record and had worked hard, he had his own home on mortgage in Benjamin Road in Wrexham and could lose his home as a result of what had happened.

Judge Hale said that the attack upon his partner showed the total disregard he had for her.

He imposed consecutive 12 month sentences for each assault with an additional two months from a previous suspended sentence.