A DRUNKEN thug twice throttled his girlfriend until she feared she was going to die, spat in her face, punched her and removed her underwear to humiliate her. Tim Bird was sent to jail for three years at Worcester Crown Court on Wednesday for the violent and degrading attacks on his ex-partner in her home as someone shouted from the public gallery: "A paedophile walked out of here last week!" The 27-year-old of Ransom Avenue, Worcester, admitted two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm on the victim during two separate incidents on January 11 and February 2 last year. Bird was also in breach of a suspended sentence for the production of cannabis (seven months suspended for two years).