A BOYFRIEND has been jailed after being found guilty of assaulting his former girlfriend during a ‘violent’ relationship.

Mitchell Hodges, of Miles Drive, Brize Norton, was on trial at Oxford Crown Court charged with seven counts.

The 42-year-old was accused of being ‘controlling and violent’ towards his ex-girlfriend during their 18-month relationship – including allegations of spitting on her, punching her, and stamping on her.

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After the trial he was found guilty of three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm which took place on September 5, December 13 and January 19, and one count of perverting the course of public justice between September 5 and October 4 last year.

He was found not guilty of controlling and coercive behaviour between July 1, 2022 and July 20, 2023 and two counts of assault by beating between July 1, 2022 and December 31, 2023 and on December 5, 2023.

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Hodges had denied all the offences, stating that he had been abused by his ex-partner.

However, a jury found him guilty of those four counts and he was jailed at the same court for five years.

During the trial, prosecutor Matthew Hodgetts said Hodges had hit the woman on several occasions, including while she was pregnant, after accusing her of cheating before forcing her to make a false statement to police claiming she was drunk and had assaulted him instead.