A JAIL sentence has been handed to a man who assaulted his girlfriend and rubbed his blood on her after cutting himself.

Shane Given was jailed for 25 months at Oxford Crown Court on Monday (February 26) for abusing his former girlfriend in Oxford between September 1 and November 7, 2023, causing criminal damage, and being racially abusive towards a police officer on November 6.

The court heard Given had bitten the woman’s nose several times and had accused of her cheating after he had been drinking.

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He had broken a car windscreen mirror in Cowley Road while being aggressive towards the woman and had on several occasions cut his wrists with broken glass and put the blood on the woman to make it look like she had injured him.

Sentencing the 32-year-old, of no fixed abode, Judge Maria Lamb said: “It was a pretty appalling act of conduct with her. You were out of control, weren’t you?

“You were so out of control you were lashing out at inanimate objects.”

Opening the case, prosecutor Michael Hagger said: “The defendant has a drinking problem and would often become aggressive when drunk and would say she had cheated on him which she denied and when he drinks he becomes physical.

“He became very aggressive and grabbed her phone in Cowley Road and smashed it on the floor and took his top off and began smashing up cars.”

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On another occasion, after the woman had tried to take Given to Turning Point, a counselling service for drug and alcohol addiction, she began ‘shouting aggressively in her face and attempted to bite her on the nose’.

Eventually, Given was arrested and during the arrest he made racist remarks towards the officer, calling him an immigrant.

In a victim impact statement read out in court, the woman said she ‘deserves better’ after feeling ‘isolated’ and ‘in fear of Given’.

She wrote that when he drinks he becomes ‘unpredictable’ and she had to start taking anxiety medication while with him.

It was claimed Given ‘never expressed remorse’ and though she ‘hopes he can overcome his addiction issues’ she doesn’t want him near her or her home.

The court heard Given has seven convictions for 11 offences.

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During Given’s defence, it was heard that he accepts he becomes ‘an ogre’ when he drinks and wants to try and stay sober upon his release from prison.

It was also heard he is being ‘mercilessly’ bullied while in custody.

As well as a 25-month prison sentence, Given was also made subject to a five-year restraining order.