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Abusive man who used sleeping girlfriend’s thumb to unlock phone spared jail

A controlling boyfriend who abused his girlfriend and used her thumb to unlock her iPhone as she slept has been spared jail after a judge told him "There's lots more fishes in the sea".

During a campaign of abuse, Alexander Heavens, 24, punched Stacey Booth in the face, trampled on her, bit her on the arm and bent her fingers back so far that she thought they might break, a court heard.

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