Timothy Clark, 41, had twice throttled the woman but she didn’t tell anyone until he locked her outside in a backyard.
“She had convinced herself she remained in love with the defendant,” said Aymer Khokhar, prosecuting.
Clark claimed that the woman had consented to being throttled when police questioned him.
Today he is serving a four-year prison sentence for domestic violence and subject to a five-year restraining order banning him from contacting the woman, going to her home or mentioning her on social media.
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