A man used a plastic cocktail jug as a weapon to smash his girlfriend round the head leaving her with a cut above the eye after they rowed on a boozy night out.

Kyle Newman and his girlfriend Alice Hall had been on a drinking session at The Clipper bar in Dartford when he picked up the large cocktail jug and hit her with it.

The impact caused Miss Hall to have a cut on the right side of her face near her eye. Staff and other customers came to assist her as blood poured from the wound.

However, as staff were treating her, 36-year-old Newman fled the pub and went to her home where he had been living to collect his belongings.

As staff at The Clipper called for a taxi to take Miss Hall back to her home in Dartford, Newman had let himself into her property with his key, but somehow locked himself out again.

Instead of leaving without his stuff, Newman picked up a crowbar and started smashing the windows of her home.

By the time Miss Hall arrived at the property, Newman had managed to smash every single downstairs window at her home and had left the scene.

The police were called and Newman was found and arrested. When officers searched him they found a small amount of cocaine on him.

Newman, of Arbrook Close, St Paul’s Cray, Orpington, was charged with actual bodily harm, criminal damage and possession of cocaine. He admitted all the offences when he appeared before magistrates in Medway on April 19, when a pre-sentencing report was ordered.

He returned to the same court on May 17, to be sentenced and the court heard the incidents happened on December 3, last year.

Chelsea Clarke, prosecuting, said: “The couple had been together for about five months and he lived at her address.

“In December they were having a few drinks at the Clipper bar and they were talking and he picked up a large plastic cocktail jug and hit her on the head with it.

“The jug was used as a weapon.”

Magistrates were also told Newman, a maintenance engineer, had no explanation for the incident as he was intoxicated and had taken cocaine and couldn't recollect why he attacked Miss Hall.

He was also said to be very remorseful and ashamed and disgusted with himself. He had offered to pay for the repairs to Miss Hall’s windows, but the council had fixed them without any cost to Miss Hall.

The bench also heard Newman had now ended his relationship with Miss Hall as he felt it was not conducive for him and he wanted a better life for himself and his young son and that he had now taken steps to address his issues and stop taking drugs.

Magistrates told Newman it was a serious incident which happened in a public place and jailed him for 24 weeks for the offence, but suspended the term for 12 months.

They also ordered him to attend 26 rehabilitation sessions and complete 240 hours of unpaid work and placed him on six month alcohol treatment requirement programme.

Newman was also ordered to pay Miss Hall £250 compensation, a victim surcharge of £154 as well as £85 costs.