A MAN carried out “a sustained attack” on his girlfriend which included dragging her by the hair from a friend’s house, a court heard.

Dominic Edwards had drunk half a bottle of Jack Daniels whisky when he launched the attack on Rebecca Cullen.

He confronted her in the back garden after they had gone to visit a friend in Bagillt. She hid in the house but he found her and dragged her outside onto the street.

Ms Cullen suffered a swollen face, a bleeding nose and cuts and bruises and after the attack she had difficulty opening her jaw.

Sentencing Edwards to 16 months in prison, Judge Niclas Parry, said: “You carried out a sustained attack on her and she was so frightened. These were the actions of a controlling bully.”

Edwards, 27, formerly of Church Street, Flint, admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm on May 5 this year.

Defence barrister Andrew Green said that Edwards accepted responsibility for what he had done.

“It shouldn’t have happened and he regrets losing his temper,” said Mr Green.

The judge told Edwards, who appeared on a video link from Altcourse Prison, he would be on licence for a year after his release from custody and made a restraining order on him not to enter Bagillt.