David Bradshaw (Image: South Wales Police)

A former boxer subjected his partner to a brutal beating in which he repeatedly kicked and stamped on the woman as she lay on the floor while he brandished a knife at her.

David Bradshaw was on bail at the time of the assault having previously taken the woman's car and crashed it into a wall before being found drunk and shirtless in a pub car park and then kicking a policeman in the head.

Sending the 34-year-old defendant down a judge at Swansea Crown Court described him as a man "possessed by petty jealousy and inadequacy" and said in a domestic context he was a "bully".

Ryan Bowen, prosecuting, told the court that at 2.30pm on August 22 this year Bradshaw's partner collected him from the day surgery unit at Swansea's Singleton Hospital w

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