Man jailed over strangulation and assault on woman in Chatham

A man who strangled a woman and held her over a staircase during an assault has been jailed.

Charlie Stefano also grabbed the woman by the throat twice, dragged her across the floor, kicked her and snapped her phone in half.

Kent Police officers were called to a petrol station in Chatham after the victim fled a property following a violent incident on 13 February.

Stefano, 33, was charged and pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court to intentional strangulation and causing actual bodily harm.

Two further charges of criminal damage and engaging in coercive and controlling behaviour were ordered to lie on file.

On Tuesday, Stefano, of Dagenham, east London, was sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison and handed a six-year restraining order.