Boyfriend is ordered to pay just £75 in compensation after leaving his girlfriend soaked in blood when he punched, head-butted and threw her about in their home

 Miss Reed 

Robert Jenney

A boyfriend who punched, headbutted and 'threw about' his terrified girlfriend leaving her drenched in blood must pay just £75 in compensation.

Robert Jenney was also handed a 12-month community order after knocking mum-of-one Louise Reed unconscious during the sickening attack.

But he was spared jail - despite Louise, 27, saying she had to flee out of her own kitchen window, with blood "pouring" from her wounds, to get help.

The brave victim has now slammed magistrates' sentence as "disgusting", saying: "He should have been sent to prison. He could have killed me."

Jenney, 30, from Hemlington in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, had already assaulted Louise just weeks before the attack, Teesside Live reports.

But in a moving post, the mum says she "gave him the benefit of the doubt and let him worm his way back in" - something she now wishes she hadn't.

In the post, uploaded to Facebook earlier this month, after the second attack, she explains how she thought she could help Jenney "deal with his demons".

However, her efforts ended up being "thrown back in my face...literally".

Louise, who has a toddler daughter, Skyler-Mae, says: "For anyone who knows me knows I’m a fiery person, someone who stands up for themselves but when your faced with the person you thought you had a future with charging towards you with what I can only describe as an unforgettable look of hate and anger on their face, that strong independent woman disappears.

"Being punched, thrown about and head butted in the face and being made to feel like a prisoner in my own home having to climb out of the window whilst pouring with blood to run for help is a memory that will stay with me forever."

She adds that she feels like "such a f***ing idiot and fool" who was "taken in by what I thought was a kind, sweet, romantic boyfriend".

She accompanied the post with shocking pictures of her bloodied face.

Louise and Jenney, who had been childhood friends, bumped into each other by chance at a Middlesbrough FC match and agreed to have a catch-up.

Days later, they went for a drink and their feelings for each other grew.

Before long, a relationship had developed.

“When we first got together he was perfect”, Louise recalled. “He treated me lovely and cooked me meals, I’d known him since I was 13-years-old.”

Louise Reed's emotional Facebook post in full

"Would just like to apologise in advance to my friends/family as well as Robert Jenney’s friends/family as this isn’t an easy thing to read. Would also like to apologise to my neighbours for the disturbance last night.

"If they’ve done it once, the likeliness is, they will do it again. I just wish I hadn’t gave him the benefit of the doubt and let him worm his way back in. I wish I had listened and taken the advice given to me, but no, I thought I could help him deal with his demons in order to make him a better person. I know I’m not perfect, far from it. My depression/anxiety has been the worst it ever has been these last couple of months and I’ve been a very difficult person to be around but I know I didn’t deserve this. Not when all I’ve done is be there for him, support him in any way possible, be there for him if/when he needed to talk to someone, encouraged him to open up and speak about what he felt and actually took time to make an appointment so he was able to get help for his anger, stood by him when everyone was telling me to walk away, falling out with friends, family, because I refused to believe he was this monster they thought he was.
For what? It’s all just been thrown back in my face...literally.

"For anyone who knows me knows I’m a fiery person, someone who stands up for themselves but when your faced with the person you thought you had a future with charging towards you with what I can only describe as an unforgettable look of hate and anger on their face, that strong independent woman disappears. Being punched, thrown about and head butted in the face and being made to feel like a prisoner in my own home having to climb out of the window whilst pouring with blood to run for help is a memory that will stay with me forever.

"Feeling like such a f***ing idiot and fool taken in by what I thought was a kind, sweet, romantic boyfriend who would have done anything for me for then to turn at the slightest argument/disagreement, become controlling, aggressive, unrecognizable. This isn’t the man I met when I was 13 years old. I don’t know this person anymore and I’m starting to question wether I actually did...

"Thing is with these type of people, they have a certain way of making you believe it’s your fault, that you’ve started the argument, that you’ve pushed them to do what they’ve done. They manipulate you into thinking it’s all in your head and you’re the problem when I’m actual fact, it’s all mind games to break you down.

"I’m sorry if this post has upset/offended anyone because a lot of people haven’t seen this side of him, and if someone told me any of this I don’t think I’d have believed it myself but from what I’ve been told by numerous people - a lot of people have witnessed this side of him and that scares me.

"Before anyone starts saying I’ve put this post on for attention - no, I really haven’t. I’ve put this post on because I don’t want this happening to anyone else. I have a three year old girl who I now have to pluck up the courage to face and try and explain why Mammy’s face is poorly, why I’m covered in bruises, why Mammy isn’t her happy self and is quite sad and why Rob won’t be coming round anymore.

"You don’t do this to someone you love."

But she said cracks started to appear in the relationship.

“We would have the slightest argument but he would overreact and then make me feel like it was my fault," she claimed.

“He would also argue with my best friends, it was like he wanted to leave me with nobody, he didn’t like me going out either.”

The arguments escalated throughout the couple's relationship - but turned to violence on July 21, when Louise was assaulted.

Despite the incident, she gave her boyfriend a chance to redeem himself.

“I actually felt like he needed help and I gave him a second chance," she said.

“We spoke about some form of help but he said it wouldn’t happen again.”

But just over two weeks later, Louise was attacked by Jenney for a second time.

“We were arguing at my home in Eston and then he turned violent”, she said.

“He attacked me and left me unconscious.

“I woke up to see him sitting rolling a cigarette, there was blood everywhere.

“I ran to the back door but the key was missing, it was also missing out of the front door.”

Finally, the mum said she managed to flee out of her kitchen window and sought help from a neighbour, who called the police.

She had to have the bridge of her nose glued after the attack.

In her Facebook post, she writes: "I have a three year old girl who I now have to pluck up the courage to face and try and explain why Mammy’s face is poorly, why I’m covered in bruises, why Mammy isn’t her happy self and is quite sad and why Rob won’t be coming round anymore."

She concludes: "You don’t do this to someone you love."

Jenney was handed the community order at Teesside Magistrates' Court on August 23 for the two assaults - but Louise feels he should be behind bars.

She said: “I think the sentenced he received is disgusting."

She added: “I suffer from nightmares and have trouble sleeping, I need to move out of my house and have a fresh start with my daughter, Skyler-Mae.

“I suffer from depression but he is free to get on with his life.

"It feels like he’s been let off.”

Jenney must also undertake 10 rehabilitation activity days and is subjected to a 12-month restraining order.

He was also ordered to pay £165 court costs, as well as the £75 compensation.