Man who hurt his partner is jailed

A thug from West Bromwich who injured his girlfriend by throwing her son's high chair when he learned she was leaving him has been jailed.

Scott Harvey, aged 25, flew into a rage when he found out his girlfriend had arranged for his belongings to be removed from her house.

Harvey became abusive and aggressive and pushed his mother to one side when she tried to calm him down, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard yesterday

.He followed his girlfriend into the kitchen and threw the high chair, causing part of it to break off and hit the victim just a millimetre from her eye.

She needed 24 stitches for a cut almost to the bone and now has a two inch scar following the attack on July 31 last year, said Mr Dean Saunders, prosecuting.

Harvey, who admitted wounding, was jailed for four months in 2005 for kicking a man in the face. He was given a community order in 2007 for punching a victim.

Harvey, of Kelvin Way, said he did not intend to hurt his girlfriend, but admitted being reckless by throwing the chair.

Mr Lee Marklew, defending, said: "It was a freak turn of events. He didn't intend to hurt her."

Recorder Mr Michael Elsom jailed Harvey for seven months.