A Shropshire man who subjected his wife to a “sustained and brutal attack” has been given a 52-week prison sentence, suspended for two years.

Kiah Locke, 48, admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm at a previous appearance at Shrewsbury Crown Court.

When he appeared at the court yesterday he was handed the suspended jail sentence and ordered to attend a domestic abuse programme, placed under a supervision order for two years and ordered to stay away from his family home.

Mr Andrew Barkley, prosecuting, said Locke, who now lives at Wallop Cottages, Westbury, had assaulted his wife Donna Marie on May 10.

The court heard Mrs Locke claimed he had asked for sex, but she refused as she had only given birth to their eighth child nine weeks previously.

“He became enraged and hit her in the back. She turned away whereupon he dragged her from the bed by the hair, stamped on her back, ribs, and the back of her head,” Mr Barkley said.

“The attack was interrupted by the 14-year-old son who tried to intervene. It appears this attack was in the presence of other children in the house.”

When Mrs Locke went to hospital doctors found she had bruises to her arm, leg, elbow, cheek and ribs, a swollen forehead, a black eye and was suffering from concussion, the court heard.

Judge Robert Trevor-Jones said it was a “sustained and brutal attack”.