A ‘violent bully’ who attacked his ex’s daughter with a piece of wood from the bedroom door he’d just smashed has been jailed.

Philip Chewings, 35, was said by the judge who sent him down for 27 months at Oxford Crown Court to be ‘no stranger to the use of violence’ when he didn’t get his way.

Jailing him, Judge Maria Lamb said: “Your behaviour that night was the behaviour of a violent bully.

“You went round to the address where your former partner and her children were. You attended, by the look of it, under the influence of some drink or drugs and you were in a vile and abusive mood.”

Opening the case, prosecutor Richard Merz said Chewings had arrived uninvited at his former partner’s home in Berinsfield, between Oxford and Wallingford, on April 13.

“He asked if he could collect a jumper because he said he was going to have to sleep outside in the woods,” Mr Merz said.

Instead, he went into his ex’s bedroom and began making abusive comments about her. From his behaviour, she thought he might have taken ketamine.

The woman walked from the room and Chewings followed. Her daughter intervened, telling the man: “Don’t speak to my mum like that.” He replied that he was ‘coming to get’ her.

The daughter and her boyfriend - both adults - went into her bedroom and shut the door. Mr Merz said: “The defendant started to punch the door and kick it and eventually broke it.” He used a piece from the shattered door to strike the couple.

Chewings’ former partner ushered her younger children into another bedroom then returned to knock the wood from his hands.

He continued his rampage through the house, damaging a vacuum cleaner and washing machine, then threatened the daughter’s boyfriend – warning him ‘I know where you work, McDonald’s boy’.

Philip Chewings' custody shot Picture: THAMES VALLEY POLICE

Mitigating, Eiran Reilly said his client was sorry for what he’d done, understood the relationship was over and ‘wished the family the best and thinks about them almost daily’.

The diabetic had gone to the house in April to pick up his insulin. While remanded in custody he had struggled to regulate his glucose levels and also, being vulnerable to the coronavirus, had had to keep himself separate from others in the prison.

Chewings, of Colwell Road, Berinsfield, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to causing actual bodily harm, criminal damage and affray.

Judge Lamb imposed a restraining order preventing the defendant from contacting his former partner and his two victims. The order will last indefinitely.

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