A THUG stamped on a woman’s chest so hard that she needed treatment for a collapsed lung.

Terrence Nixon, of Common Lane, Tyldesley and his victim had an on/off sexual relationship for up to nine years, and on January 27, 2018, he turned up at her home, Bolton Crown Court heard.

Bob Sastry, prosecuting, said they watched television but then an argument broke out, with 48-year-old Nixon accusing her of seeing another man.

Nixon started shouting loudly and the woman asked him to leave.

“However, he punched her in the face with his fist,” said Mr Sastry.

Nixon shoved her to the floor and stamped twice on her ribs.

The woman’s 15-year-old daughter, disturbed by the noise, came downstairs, shouted at Nixon and he left the house, throwing a bottle of Jack Daniels through the front window.

The victim went to the Royal Bolton Hospital where she was treated for a collapsed lung and bruises.

Nixon, who has previous convictions for violence, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm

In a victim statement read out in court, the woman said: “If my daughter hadn’t come down he would have killed me by stamping on me. He really wanted to hurt me.”

She added that she is now having to have treatment for PTSD.

“My whole outlook has changed,” she said.

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Paul Wood, defending, said: “This is a serious offence and it has some clearly aggravating features which the court will, no doubt, look upon with disdain.”

He added that although Nixon’s behaviour was “terrible” the woman’s injuries were not as serious as they could have been.

Mr Wood stressed that Nixon was last before the court for violence 10 years ago, now has employment and is a steadying influence on his 19-year-old son.

Recorder Mark Ainsworth was told that, while awaiting sentence, Nixon had been on an electronically tagged curfew, equivalent to already having served 244 days in prison.

Nixon wept in the dock as Recorder Ainsworth sentenced him to eight months in prison, suspended for 18 months, ordered him to undertake 200 hours of unpaid work and participate in 20 days of rehabilitation activities.

He was also ordered to pay his victim £1,500 in compensation, and a restraining order was made banning him from contacting her or going within 100 yards of her home.