Llanelli Man Jailed for Sadistic Attack on Partner

A Llanelli man who subjected his partner to a brutal 45-minute assault using various weapons has been handed a 16-year extended sentence at Swansea Crown Court.

Jared Warlow, 29, of Coleshill Terrace, Llanelli, pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent after attacking the woman at her home on 28 June this year.

The court heard Warlow had been drinking vodka to “bring himself down” from cocaine when he dragged the woman to the floor and launched a prolonged assault. He struck her “over and over and over again”, ripped her clothes off, and jumped on her head as she lay on the floor.

Prosecutor Craig Jones told the court Warlow beat the woman with a loft ladder before “swapping weapons” and hitting her with a fan and then a vacuum cleaner. He bit a chunk off her ear, throttled her until she nearly lost consciousness, rubbed her face in a cat litter tray, and tried to make her eat the contents.

At one point, Warlow opened a bedroom window and threatened to throw the woman out, telling her that given what he had already done “he may as well kill her”.

The naked woman eventually fled into the garden, where Warlow told children playing next door that she was running away because he had turned down her request for sex.

The victim was found by police in a “largely unresponsive state” and taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. Her injuries included a jaw broken on both sides, six fractured ribs, a fractured spine, multiple wounds to the liver, a deformed right ear with the top missing, extensive bruising and swelling, and a traumatic knee injury. She required an operation to fit metal plates in her jaw.

The woman has been left with tinnitus, a deformed ear, chipped teeth, and no feeling in her face from the bridge of her nose down her neck due to nerve damage which is likely to be permanent.

In her victim statement, the woman said the terror she experienced when she realised Warlow was not going to stop his attack was something she would never forget. She said the unprovoked assault had caused her “pain and humiliation beyond words” and left her “crippled with anxiety and depression”.

When arrested, Warlow claimed his partner had attacked him because he didn’t want sex with her and said he had acted in self-defence.

The court heard Warlow has previous convictions including five counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, two of which were attacks on previous partners. One assault involved him throttling and punching a woman and beating her with a belt while talking about forcing her head into a fish tank to drown her.

Judge Geraint Walters said in the 24 years he had sat as a judge he had rarely heard such disturbing details in a case that was not a murder case. He told Warlow: “There is no more you could have done to her than you did” and described the way he treated the woman as “sadistic” and “horrific beyond words”.

The judge said Warlow was a “violent individual” who “routinely raises his fists to women” and that an extended sentence as a dangerous offender was necessary to protect the public.

With a discount for his guilty plea, Warlow was made the subject of a 16-year extended sentence comprising 12 years in custody followed by a four-year licence period. He can apply to be released after serving two-thirds of the custodial element, but it will be for the Parole Board to determine if he is safe to be released.