A twenty-three-year-old man from Tenby has been sentenced to 30 months in jail for multiple sickening and violent assaults on his partner, including spitting in her face, strangulation, and pouring drinks on her in public on a night out in Saundersfoot.

Oscar Allen, of Southcliffe House, St Julians Street, was jailed for 30 months at a hearing at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court this month, with Judge Daniel Williams also activating the defendant’s full 12-month suspended sentence to run consecutively.

Allen was accused of assaulting a female between November 1 and December 30, 2024; and accused of a further three separate assaults again this year, alleged to have occurred on May 26; July 26; and August 11.

A further charge of controlling or coercive behaviour was aimed at Allen.

Allen pleaded guilty to five offences of assault by beating, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, strangulation, fraud by false representation, and criminal damage.

He had three previous convictions for four offences, and was subject to a 12-month suspended sentence order at the time.

The court heard how on one night out to a pub in Saundersfoot back in May, when the couple were there to celebrate a friend’s birthday, following an argument, Allen carried his partner out of the premises, before putting her down on a bench and then grabbing her by the throat.

Later that evening, Allen followed her around the Sands nightclub, using her phone to buy himself drinks, which he elected to pour over her.

On other separate occassions, Allen was accused of picking his victim up and throwing her over a grass bank at an event in Narberth in July; and then slapping her twice in the face on a night out in Tenby in August after the seaside town’s Summer Spectacular event.

“This was a sustained pattern of violent, controlling behaviour,” Judge Daniel Williams said...“Your partner lived in fear because of your actions.”