A BULLY boyfriend attacked his partner with an X Box after she told him she didn’t want him to come back to her home Chudleigh Knighton.

Daniel Smith left the young mother’s home in the early hours of the morning with her bank card and she told him their relationship was over when she found it was missing.

She told him not to come back to the house in Chudleigh Knighton to pick up his belongings until the next day but he turned up at 3.30am after he had been drinking.

He left her with a gash on her head after hitting her with the X Box which he was holding and then smashed two phones to stop her getting help.

Smith, aged 29, of Fernicombe Close, Paignton, admitted battery and criminal damage and was ordered to do 70 hours unpaid community work, 15 days of rehabilitation activities, and pay £800 costs by Judge David Evans at Exeter Crown Court.

He told him: ‘You were throwing your weight around like a bully and as she tried to call for help you smashed her phone by throwing it against a wall.

‘You caused unnecessary damage to other items.

‘You took time to verbally insult and belittle the victim before driving off with her car key. You were essentially bullying her and being cruel out of spite.’

Mr Peter Coombe, prosecuting, said Smith had been in a relationship with the complainant which was on-off by the time of the attack on April 7 last year.

He left the house with her bank card at about 2am but she realised what he had done and rang him to say their relationship was over and to pick up his things in the morning.

He turned up at 3.30am and hit her on the head with the sharp edge of an X Box when she got up to see what he was doing.

He smashed a television, broke two phones and left her bleeding.

Mr William Parkhill, defending, said Smith has no history of violence and has moved on with his life. He works as a carpenter and is in a position to pay costs.