A "serial abuser of women" brutally attacked a former partner of his and assaulted another in the street, a court has heard.

Wayne Jackman appeared at Manchester Crown Court on Thursday (May 2) after pleading guilty to attempting to cause grievous bodily harm, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, two counts of common assault, intentional strangulation, burglary and failing to surrender to bail.

The court heard from prosecutor Bob Elias, who explained to the court that Jackman had been in a relationship with a woman between July 2018 and March 2020.

During their relationship, he was violent to her and twice brutally assaulted her.

The 40-year-old's attacks would involve him accusing his partner of flirting with other men, verbally abusing her, hitting her in the face, throwing her to the floor and demanding to check her phone.

Mr Elias said that during the relationship, Jackman, of Oldham Road, Failsworth, became "possessive, coercive and jealous" and would stop her from going to see her friends.

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After the pair split, they met up again in November 2020 and when back at his address, he once again violently attacked her and demanded to go through her phone, despite his own young son begging him to stop and trying to intervene.

After they had split, Jackman stalked the woman and showed up to her door on several occasions.

In January 2021, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for harassing her.

Mr Elias told the court that the woman has been diagnosed with PTSD as a result of her ordeal and that she was "too scared to be on her own".

Following his release and in the early hours of September 30, 2022, Jackman was in Failsworth when he came across three women returning from a night out.

One of the women had been in an "on-off relationship" with Jackman for 15 months, and although the meeting began amicably, his personality soon changed when he took issue with what she was wearing.

Jackman then began a horrific, sustained attack, with footage played in court showing it lasted for close to 15 minutes in the street.

During the violence, Jackman smashed the woman's head against a wall three times, stamped on her head three times, put her in a chokehold several times, and repeatedly struck her, kicked her, threw her across the ground and pulled her by her hair.

The woman's two friends were threatened by Jackman if they tried to intervene, with one being pushed on the floor.

The four eventually began to walk down the street before an elderly resident opened her front door to let the women in.

Jackman barged his way into the house of the woman, before continuing to beat his victim inside.

He eventually left before being caught by police shortly after.

The court heard one of the friends of the main victim said: "I really thought he was going to kill her."

The court also heard that before this attack, Jackman had been at the house of a different woman, where he assaulted her.

Defending, Rosalind Scott-Bell admitted there was "very little" she could say on Jackman's behalf, describing his behaviour as "appalling" and saying it was "simply good fortune" that the woman he attacked in the street only sustained minor physical injuries.

She also said Jackman was "deeply, deeply ashamed".

When passing sentence, Judge Timothy Smith labelled Jackman a "serial abuser of women with whom you are or have been in a relationship".

Judge Smith continued: "You are in short a violent and cowardly bully."

Jackman was sentenced to nine years in prison and five years on licence, while he must serve at least two thirds of the nine years before he is eligible for release.

Judge Smith also amended the existing restraining order on his first victim to make it indefinite.