A DRUNK binman who throttled his ex-girlfriend until she struggled to breathe has been jailed for 16 months.

Swindon Crown Court heard Kyle Pople, 27, had returned to his former partner’s Trowbridge flat on October 4 last year after getting drunk at an event to raise money to repatriate the body of a friend, who had died abroad.

When he saw the woman on the sofa with another man he flew into a rage. He punched and bit the man then throttled his former partner, threw a pram at the TV and lobbed a glass bottle into the window.

Sending Kyle Pople down at Swindon Crown Court, Judge Peter Crabtree said: “These were serious offences, committed inside the complainant’s home – her flat – where she should have been safe, in a domestic context involving sustained, drunken attacks on your victims, in which you bit one of them and that’s had some ongoing impact on your former partner at least.”

Prosecutor Chris Smyth had earlier told the court Pople’s ex had been in the Summerleaze home she shared with their three-year-old daughter on the night of October 4, 2019.

She was with a male friend. That friend’s brother and his girlfriend had left to get a pizza.

Pople had been drinking that evening at an event in memory of a friend, who had died abroad.

He called his ex, with whom he had had an on-off relationship, to ask if he could stay at her house that evening. Despite not being able to get through to her, he went to the Summerleaze flat.

When he saw his ex together with the man he flew into a rage, demanding to know what the man was doing there then jumping on top of him.

Pople clamped his teeth around the man’s left arm and hit him around the head before saying “f*** this, I’ll get a knife”.

The male friend fled the flat to call his mum. Pople’s ex, thinking she was alone in the house, sat down on the sofa.

Pople returned, grabbed her around the throat and pushed her head backwards until she struggled to breathe. He continued calling her rude names.

During the ordeal he threw a pram at the television and aimed a glass bottle at the window. He also pulled crockery from the drying rack in the kitchen.

As his ex called 999, he grabbed her phone from her, grappled with the woman and again throttled her – this time using both hands.

He went outside to wait in his Ford Fiesta then challenged the man who had been in the flat as he returned with his mum and brother.

Pople, of Badminton Place, Westbury, pleaded guilty at the magistrates’ court to two counts of assault causing actual bodily harm and two allegations of criminal damage.

Alec Small, defending, said his client was remorseful and had stayed out of trouble since the assault. He continued to see his young daughter. He had a steady job as a bin man and accommodation.

The barrister said: “Mr Pople recognises and has recognised from the outset that this was an incredibly bad and stupid thing to have done.”