12:25PM, Monday 06 August 2012
A 21-year-old man has been jailed for four years for abusing a former partner.
Kieran Pretlove, of Laburnham Gardens, Whitley, Reading, was found guilty of one count of kidnapping, one count of common assault, two counts of false imprisonment and eight counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm after a two-week trial at Reading Crown Court.
He was sentenced at the court on Friday.
Pretlove was arrested in January 2012 and charged with multiple offences against a former girlfriend between September 2011 and January 2012.
Her Honour Judge Morris sentenced Pretlove to a total of four years imprisonment for each offence to run concurrently.
Passing sentence, Judge Morris told Pretlove: “You are a person who has no hesitation to bully people to get what you want and that is exactly what you are, you are a violent bully.”
Investigating Officer, PC Nathan Adby from the Reading Domestic Abuse Investigation Unit, said: “This is an excellent result which should send out a clear warning that domestic abuse is a crime that will not be tolerated.”
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