A WOMAN who has a history of domestic violence has been jailed again after she left her new partner with a slashed wrist after threatening to torture him.

Louise Smith set about the former solider before smashing a plate on his wrist after kicking him when he was on the ground.

She refused to call him an ambulance and then assaulted police when they arrived.

Despite the victim saying he hoped to continue their relationship, a judge at Swindon Crown Court said sometimes people needed to be protected from themselves.

Hannah Squire, prosecuting, said Smith, 43, and Simon Davies lived in separate apartments in the same block in Swindon’s Whitehead Street and were a couple.

She said both were drinkers and during Friday, May 26, they got through six bottles of Prosecco and some cider.

During the evening Smith was being argumentative and awkward and a friend who had come to visit left because of the atmosphere.

“Soon after he got the brunt of Louise Smith’s anger. She continued to be abusive,” Miss Squire said.

She first hit him around the head with a glass fronted wall clock, losing consciousness for a while. He curled up in a ball on the floor as she rained kicks on him before she smashed a dinner plate on his right wrist.

Once in the street he went to a nearby shop where people saw the state he was in and called the ambulance service, who took him to hospital where he had stitches to his wrist.

When police arrived the defendant was abusive and pushed an officer.

Smith, who gave the court an address in Buttermere, Liden, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding and assaulting a police officer.

She was jailed for three-and-a-half years in 2011 after she launched an assault on her then partner leaving him with injuries a judge said were ‘not for the squeamish’.

Smith left her then boyfriend seriously injured after she attacked him with a broken Flintstones mug in a vicious revenge attack.

Ellen McAnaw, defending, said that her client had mental health issues having been diagnosed while in prison.

She said she had been on antipsychotic medication which had made her feel better, so she foolishly stopped taking it.

Since the incident she had started taking the medicine again and had finally found a combination which helps and she has stopped drinking.

Jailing her for 22 months Recorder Jason Taylor said: “You had been argumentative, aggressive and controlling.

“You refused to let your partner leave the flat.

“You took his keys, you even said at one point you would torture him.

“It escalated when you smashed a clock over his head.

“I have read the victim personal statement from your partner. It explains your difficulties and says you need help.

“He expresses a desire that you continue your relationship. Sometimes victims need protecting from themselves, especially in relationships.”