Rushden man subjected woman to series of degrading assaults
A Rushden man has been jailed after admitting a string of serious assaults on a female victim.
Jeremiah Lovatt, 36, has been imprisoned for six years and six months after the brutal assaults on the woman.
He was at Northampton Crown Court last month to be sentenced after admitting eight charges which included knocking out the woman’s tooth and monitoring her whereabouts.
- Four counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm on multiple occasions including cutting her hair and knocking out her tooth.
- engaging in coercive and controlling behaviour including threats of violence toward his victim’s children, threats of violence towards her, verbal abuse, physical assaults, monitoring her location, and threatening to share sexual images.
- two counts of intentional strangulation
- sexual assault
Lovatt, of Hayway, Rushden, has dozens of previous convictions for offences including robbery, arson and theft.
In 2020 he was jailed after causing a 30-minute brawl in the segregation unit of HMP Bullingdon in Oxfordshire and hurling his own urine over an officer.
And in 2015 he went on a one-man crime spree, stealing phones from teenagers, smashing the window of a taxi waiting for a fare and stealing the car. He stole the takings, drove off and set fire to the car.