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JAILED: 'Sadistic' martial arts expert who held hot iron to partner's chest

A 'sadistic' Black Country martial arts expert who held a hot iron to the chest of his partner leaving her in dreadful pain has been locked up for five years.

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Ian Siviter also badly beat up the victim at her Walsall home after earlier carrying out two vicious assaults on another woman with whom he had had a relationship.

The 51-year-old threw a cup of hot tea in the face of the latter at her home in Highfield Road, Kates Hill, Dudley before slapping her in the face so hard she saw stars, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard.

Siviter then threatened her with a spirit level and just three days later put his hands around her throat. He squeezed so hard she passed out.

The defendant then formed a relationship with the vulnerable woman who lived in Gurney Road Walsall's Beechdale estate in Walsall and against whose breast the iron was held before he refused to let her seek medical attention.

Siviter beat up the woman soon afterwards leaving her battered and bruised with two back eyes and and over 20 injury marks on her body.

The defendant, now of no fixed address, had denied two charges of assault causing actual bodily harm against each of his two victims but was convicted after trial. The offences were committed between October 2013 and September last year.

Siviter reappeared at the court yesterday to be sentenced by Judge Nicholas Webb who told him: "You are probably a danger to any woman with whom you have a relationship. These serious sustained assaults were not momentary incidents - it was sadism."

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