The Attorney General is reviewing the two-year jail term given to a man who attacked his girlfriend outside a Cowley Road bar.

The Crown Prosecution Service has asked Dominic Grieve look into whether the term handed to Michael Slinn, 46, was “unduly lenient”.

Slinn fled to Thailand while awaiting sentence for the 2005 attack, which left his former girlfriend Nichola Wollage-Joyce with a punctured lung, broken ribs and a perforated eardrum.

He was recaptured and found guilty after a trial at Reading Crown Court before being sentenced at Oxford earlier this month.

Attorney General spokesman Bernie Caffarey said tonight that the decision could “take time”.