A WORKINGTON man who kicked and punched his girlfriend on a Carlisle street during a row has been jailed for 150 days.

Dean Stanley Donnelly, 29, told police he and his victim had got into a row over her suspicions that he was interested in another woman after he met her on the corner of Bower Street in Carlisle.

He attacked her - at one point grabbing her by the throat - after she broke the windscreen of his car, he told police.

At the city's Rickergate court, Donnelly entered guilty pleas to an assault causing actual bodily harm on Laura Todd and to a common assault on a second woman, Lizzie Adshead.

Pamela Fee, prosecuting, outlined how the defendant, of William Street, Workington, met Miss Todd "at her request" on June 9, parking his car on the corner of Bower Street.

He said he had arrived to find her "very drunk."

Once she had got into his vehicle, she accused him of texting Miss Adshead and being interested in her.

"I in turn accused her of cheating on me," the defendant told police.

Miss Todd had then got out of his car, saying she would go to Miss Adshead's house, and Donnelly attempted to follow her by reversing his car down the street.

He told the officers that if his car did make contact with Miss Todd it was as a result of her being drunk, and not intentional. At no time did he try to drive at her, he insisted. At some point, she smashed the windscreen of his car. The defendant told police: "I was angered by her damaging my vehicle and I punched and kicked her more than once.

"I accept that I grabbed her by the throat."

When Miss Adshead came out of her home to intervene, he had pushed her.

He later claimed he had been subjected to an unprovoked attack by the two women, but in court he admitted the two assaults.

In a statement, Miss Todd said she was scared that Donnelly would go after her and she requested a restraining order, and asked magistrates through the prosecutor to ban him from Carlisle.

Mike Pope, for Donnelly, said both victims had been "significantly incapacitated" by alcohol.

Commenting on the smashing of his client's windscreen, Mr Pope added: "That was red rag to a bull and that is why he reacted."

References in a Probation Service report to the defendant being arrested on suspicion on coercive and controlling behaviour concerned the defendant, said Mr Pope.

Those suspicions were unproven and untested, he said.

District Judge Gerald Chalk told Donnelly: "I am dealing with serious assaults."

The attack on Miss Todd represented a breach of trust.

As well as the jail term, the judge ordered the defendant to pay Miss Todd £200 compensation when he is released.

He also imposed a two year restraining order which bans Donnelly from contacting Miss Todd by any means, including through social media.