Sentenced: Craig Thomas, 33, has been jailed for 10 years after he repeatedly hit his pregnant girlfriend on the stomach saying he would 'beat the baby out of her'
A man who repeatedly hit his pregnant girlfriend on the stomach saying he would 'beat the baby out of her' has been jailed for 10 years.
Craig Thomas beat his partner, who was 11 weeks pregnant, with the pipe from a vacuum cleaner three times in what a judge said was one of the worst cases of domestic violence he had ever seen.
Cardiff Crown Court heard how 33-year-old Thomas also threatened to pull the terrified woman's teeth out, hit her with a hammer before ordering her to make him a cup of tea, and frightened her so much that she wet herself.
The court was told that Thomas had met the victim several years ago when she was working as a nightclub dancer in Cardiff.
The pair started a relationship earlier this year and the defendant moved into her home in Llanishen.
However, just a week and a half after she moved in Thomas began acting violently towards the woman - initially on a weekly basis before it soon became a daily occurrence.
The relationship lasted a couple of months until Thomas was arrested.
The court heard how, on one occasion, he hit his victim round the head with a hammer it before taking her to the kitchen to clean the blood up and telling her to make him a cup of tea.
'I was expecting to die in this relationship and I thought this might be the time,' she said in a statement read out in court.
On June 6 this year, she told Thomas she was 11 weeks pregnant - only for his reign of terror to heighten.
On three occasions he took a pipe off a vacuum cleaner and hit her repeatedly on the stomach, saying he would 'beat the baby out of her'.
Her statement continued: 'I was scared that you would kill me and the baby.'
As well as threatening to pull her teeth out with pliers, the court heard how he had threatened to cut her son’s face if she didn’t do what he wanted.
In another incident he assaulted her because she didn’t have any sugar for his cereal.
Over the course of the relationship, the court heard how he had also burnt the victim with cigarettes, head-butted, kicked and punched her.
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