Leeds angle-grinder thug has sentence extended for savage elbow attack on girlfriend
A violent thug serving a lengthy sentence for attacking a person with an angle grinder has been handed a new sentence for fracturing his girlfriend’s eye socket.
The victim was left needing surgery to insert a titanium plate and has suffered ongoing issues after the vicious elbow thrown by Randeep Singh.
The 38-year-old was jailed at Leeds Crown Court after admitting Section 20 GBH without intent, along with two other assaults on the woman.
He appeared in court over a video link from HMP Humber, where he is serving a 54-month sentence for driving matters and the attack with the angle grinder.
The court was told that the tool was switched on at the time of the assault, although no other details were disclosed.
Outlining his latest offending, prosecutor Joel Wootten said Singh and his partner had been at the Hollywood Bowl in Kirkstall last year when they got into an argument.
Singh had become paranoid after a strange man had looked at her.
When they got back to the Air B&B they had been staying at, Singh clapped both of his hands on the side of her head.
On another occasion he punched her after they had both been drinking.
Finally, on April 15 last year, they had been arguing over a cash loan and he attacked her in the street, punching and kicking her.
When they got back to their hotel he attacked her again, throwing the vicious elbow to the woman’s face.
She was forced to go to hospital where a scan showed the fracture to her eye socket that required surgery.
In a victim impact statement, which the woman read to the court herself, she said her eye will “never be the same again” and will “forever live in fear” of Singh.
Mitigating, Matthew Stewart said Singh, of Cambrian Street, Beeston, accepted responsibility and was “extremely remorseful”.
He said Singh had become a drugs and alcohol mentor in prison, adding: “He is trying to make himself a better person.”
But Judge Andrew Stubbs KC rejected claims that Singh was remorseful, questioning why he only accepted his guilty prior to standing trial.
He jailed him for two years, which will run consecutively to his 54-month sentence.
He also gave him a 10-year restraining order to keep him away from his former partner.