A thug told police he had not punched his victim ‘on the hooter’ – and, if he had, the man ‘wouldn’t have a face left’.

Anthony Sexton’s victim was found wandering around outside the Aldi on Botley Road stripped to his pants and with a bloodied face – having been undressed and assaulted in the park behind the supermarket.

The 34-year-old ripped the same man’s shirt when he chased after the man, who had left a party at the Jericho flat of Sexton’s girlfriend some four days later.

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Jurors at Oxford Crown Court convicted the Barton man of controlling and coercive behaviour towards his girlfriend, witness intimidation, causing actual bodily harm and criminal damage. He was remanded in custody until March 3, when he will be sentenced.

Sexton, of Stowford Road, Oxford, did not give evidence in his own defence. However, in a lengthy interview with detectives he accused his girlfriend and the male victim of making up allegations he had controlled and assaulted her, threatened the woman in order to retract her accusations, smashed up property in her flat, or assaulted the man on two occasions last July.

He said the allegations were ‘all a fairy tale’. And in one memorable phrase – of which judge Recorder John Ryder KC reminded the jury – Sexton said of the Botley assault: “I would not punch him seven times on the hooter. He wouldn’t have a face left.”

The defendant’s ex-partner, who told the jury she had been stamped on during the assault in her flat, stormed from the court part-way through her witness evidence – saying her former boyfriend was ‘an animal’.

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This story was written by Tom Seaward. He joined the team in 2021 as Oxfordshire's court and crime reporter.  

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