- The 32-year-old man also doused victim’s body in shampoo during hotel attack
- Details are revealed as the man, who cannot be named, appealed his conviction
- He was jailed for six years in July after a jury found him guilty of sexual assault
- The victim was subjected to several attacks by her partner, from Londonderry
A sex attacker squeezed toothpaste down the throat of his former partner before assaulting her in a hotel room, a court has heard.
The 32-year-old man also doused his victim’s body in shampoo after dragging her into the bathroom by her hair.
The details of the attack were revealed as the man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appealed his conviction.
He was jailed for six years in July after a jury found him guilty of sexual assault, false imprisonment, criminal damage and common assault.
The Court of Appeal in Belfast (pictured) heard that the defendant was challenging his conviction on the basis of bad character evidence given during the trial
The victim was subjected to several attacks by her partner, from Londonderry, during a six-month period from May to November in 2013.
According to the Newtownabbey Times, he carried out his first sexual assault on the woman after dragging her out from underneath a bed by her foot.
In another attack, he left her with a bloody nose after throwing a glass at her face, before sexually assaulting her at a hotel in Belfast in August 2013.
The Court of Appeal in Belfast heard that the defendant was challenging his conviction on the basis of bad character evidence given during the trial.
But dismissing the appeal, Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan said: ‘The substance of the prosecution application was that this was a man who in the relatively recent past had assaulted four female partners.
‘That was evidence that was plainly appropriately placed before the jury in this case, and we do not accept that there was any failure of investigation beyond the circumstances made available to the learned trial judge.’