Andrew Ward, of Grove, near Wantage, unleashed the vile attacks against his ex-partner over their nine-year relationship. Jurors at Oxford Crown Court have previously heard how the 35-year-old became ‘jealous, possessive and controlling’ and lashed out at the woman who had become too scared and embarrassed’ to tell the truth about her injuries to the doctors. In the first attack in 2012 she had been straightening her hair when he started kicking her in the ribs. She went to the doctors after feeling like she was going to ‘collapse’ in pain. Years later, she had been in bed when Ward came into her house in the early hours to check her mobile phone, ‘something he would always do’.
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Johnson was charged on August 14, 2020 following offences overnight between August 12 and 13 last year. Between 11.50pm and 12.45am, Johnson damaged a vehicle in Nowell Road, Rose Hill by jumping on it causing the windscreen to smash and denting the vehicle. He then entered a property on Kempson Crescent, Littlemore and assaulted a woman who was asleep inside the property by hitting her multiple times to the head. The victim, a woman in her sixties, sustained facial fractures, a bleed on the brain, cuts to her eye and a detached retina. Investigating officer, Detective Sergeant Neil Anns, based at St Aldates police station, said: “I am pleased the jury found Johnson unanimously guilty and thank them for hearing all the evidence during this trial.