A MAN has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison after pleading guilty to assault and criminal damage offences in Bromsgrove. Charlie Clark, also known as Jacob Taylor, was arrested and charged in November following reports to police that he had violently attacked his former partner in her Bromsgrove home. The 29-year-old, from Finstall Close, Birmingham, appeared at Worcester Crown Court on January 13. The victim, a woman in her 40s, had been strangled and beaten, but she was able to escape the house. A member of the public then contacted the police. Clark was sentenced to 33 months in prison and a restraining order was also granted to protect the victim from further harm.