The visitor to York heard a commotion as the screaming woman tried to escape from the hotel room next door
where Ben Garner had just throttled the woman as part of a prolonged assault, said Victoria Barker, prosecuting.
The 32-year-old ex-prisoner was trying to drag his girlfriend back into the couple’s room, but the woman hotel guest got her into her own room and called police.
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