A drunken thug has been jailed for punching and strangling his ex-partner so she feared she would die.Thomas Hughes, aged 29, knocked the woman's nose out of line and left her face swollen and bruised, a court heard.He strangled his victim so she struggled to breathe after launching an unprovoked attack in her own home in the early hours.The woman said she was still living in fear almost six months later, Plymouth Crown Court.Recorder Jane Rowley said that Hughes was under the influence of...
