A baby-faced teenager who threw fireworks at his ex-girlfriend has been unmasked as one of the UK's most sadistic domestic abusers.
Bobby Hoyle carried out a campaign of intimidation and jealous revenge against the girl between August 22 and September 26, when he was 17 years old.
Hoyle, now 18, left his ex in fear of violence by harassment and in one incident he strangled her, the court heard.
Hull Crown Court heard the terrified victim was left fearing that she would die. Hoyle also spat at her, hurled a bucket of dirty mop water, and threw fireworks at her, Hull Live reports.
The teen, from Bransholme, Kingston upon Hull, during a confrontation told his ex: "If I can't have you, no one can."
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Charlotte Baines, prosecuting, said that Hoyle and his ex-girlfriend had met through a friend and had been in a relationship for about five months at the time.
The relationship was going well until August, but then Hoyle's behaviour deteriorated and the girl did not want to be with him anymore, the court heard.
Hoyle pictured in mask (Facebook)
The teen posing on a car in Hull (Facebook)During one incident, Hoyle strangled his ex for 20 seconds and the girl, who could not breathe, almost blacked out. Then Hoyle told his ex she should kiss him, the court was told.
During another incident, the ex-girlfriend asked Hoyle to leave her home but he tried to set her bag on fire.
She tried to push him out of the house but he punched her in the face, causing a swollen eye, the court heard.
In a later confrontation, Hoyle took her phone off the girl before hitting it on a hard surface, taking it outside, and stamping on it. "He wouldn't let her have it back," said Miss Baines.
Hoyle turned up later that day at her house in Bransholme and the phone had been fixed. He grabbed hold of his ex-girlfriend by both arms and poured a bottle of vodka down the drain. She told him that he could keep the phone, the court heard.
He later followed her while she was outside and kept riding his bicycle into the back of her legs, telling her that she was a "sl*g".
In another incident at his home, she told him that she was going home but he grabbed her clothes that were there and threw them on the floor.
She quickly ran downstairs but he followed her and asked her where she was going. Outside, he pushed her and she fell to her knees at the gate, the court heard.
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He dragged her down the street away from the house as she shouted for help from his father. "She again screamed for help," said Miss Baines.
Hoyle kicked his ex-girlfriend in the back of her head four times and she ran to a nearby house for safety. He told the woman living there: "Just get her out. I want to talk to her" and aggressively banged on the window.
Hull Crown Court heard the terrified victim was left fearing that she would die (MEN Media)On another occasion, Hoyle spat at his ex-girlfriend, grabbed her and pulled her about. "He tried to bang her body against a car door and punched her," said Miss Baines. "He took her phone from her."
Hoyle pulled out a fire cracker, lit it and tried to throw it through the window of a car while she was inside. "Fortunately, it landed on the street and exploded there," said Miss Baines.
He threw another lit fire cracker and it exploded but did not cause any injury. Hoyle spat at her again and he grabbed her by her neck.
"She screamed at her friend to drive away," said Miss Baines. "He put his head through the open window. They did manage to get away."
Hoyle later tried to climb up a drainpipe at his ex-girlfriend's home at 10.40pm while she was in the bath. "He tried to open an upstairs window without success," said Miss Baines.
"He climbed down and pulled at her dining room window. The alarm went off. She was unable to ring the police because the defendant still had her telephone. She went downstairs in a towel and he asked her if she wanted to be with him."
She asked him to leave but he grabbed a mop bucket of dirty water and threw it at her, covering her and making the floor slippy. He took hold of her by her neck and threw her onto the sofa, telling her: "If I can't have you, no one can."
She carried on struggling with him for 30 seconds before he let her go. He tried to prevent her from leaving but she was able to do so. He followed her and began to hit her before dragging her into the house and throwing her phone over a garden fence, cracking the screen.
On another occasion, Hoyle entered her home, ran up to her, pinned her to the sofa, pushed her back down and grabbed her throat. He was arrested on September 27. Hoyle had convictions for seven previous offences, including affray and wounding.
Nigel Clive mitigating, said, that Hoyle was 17 when the offending began but it continued after he turned 18. "He has not engaged in any victim blaming at all," said Mr Clive.
Hoyle was "in at the deep end" as far as relationships were concerned. "He dealt with it terribly," said Mr Clive. Hoyle wanted to apologise for what he had done. The worst feature of the incident was the strangulation. "These are terrible matters," said Mr Clive.
Hoyle had been in custody for three-and-a-half months on remand.
"He has had the opportunity to reflect on his life choices and the direction he is heading," said Mr Clive. "He intends to get a job when he is released. He has already looked into that."
The ex-girlfriend had come to court to support him, did not want a restraining order and the relationship was likely to resume, the court heard. Hoyle had a one-year-old son from a different relationship.
Judge Kate Rayfield said that strangling was a "horrific form of violence" to use. "The person does not know in those few seconds whether they will live or die," said Judge Rayfield. That was exactly what Hoyle wanted the victim to feel.
The violence happened when the ex-girlfriend was not doing what he wanted her to do. When she said that she did not want to be in a relationship with Hoyle, he could not accept that and some of his behaviour towards her was "utterly degrading" including spitting at her and throwing the mop bucket with dirty water in it.
As he behaved in such an "appalling" way to her, it was not surprising that she did not want to be with Hoyle because of his "selfish" behaviour. "It was committed over a prolonged period," said Judge Rayfield.
Hoyle was given a two-year suspended custodial sentence and 80 hours' of unpaid work. He was also ordered to attend 31 days of a Building Better Relationships programme and 10 days' of rehabilitation.
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