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Jealous lover left ex injured in texting row

A jealous man pushed his ex-girlfriend causing her to fall on some stairs during a row about who she was texting, a court was told.

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The victim received multiple bruises as a result of the fall, prosecutor Robert James Edwards told Shrewsbury Crown Court.

Daniel Smart, 25 of Fieldhouse Drive, Muxton pleaded guilty on a basis of plea to assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Mr Edwards said that Smart had seized the phone of his former girlfriend when he heard it receive a text on January 11.

"He became concerned that the victim was communicating with another man," said Mr Edwards, who told the court that the couple had ended their relationship but had continued to live together.

Smart had grabbed his former partner and pushed her twice during the altercation, he said.

Judge Robin Onions criticised Smart's actions, which had resulted in the victim leaving the house with her child that night and moving to a women's refuge, but accepted that the assault had been caused a relatively low-level of injury.

"She was entirely free to have any relationship she wanted to, but I guess that jealousy played a party," he said.

Smart was given a 12-month community order with 12 months of supervision and a requirement to attend a domestic abuse workshop.

He was also given a restraining order not to contact the victim by any means and to pay £300 prosecution costs.

Mr Paul Smith, for Smart, said that although the defendant's record, which included offences of robbery, assault and battery had brought him before the crown court for sentence, none of his crimes had been committed as an adult.

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