Paranoid steroid thug attacked Leeds partner with clothes horse after Snapchat accusations
He would punch her repeatedly and even held a hammer while making threats
A thug who became paranoid after taking cocaine and steroids has been jailed for repeated attacks on his partner.
Jealous Logan Callaghan would accuse his partner of cheating and search through her Snapchat account.
He appeared at Leeds Crown Court for sentencing after being found guilty after a trial of two counts of ABH and one of coercive behaviour.
The 25-year-old admitted a charge failing to surrender to court.
The couple had first met in 2019 and had a child in 2020, although their relationship was not “exclusive”, prosecutor Victoria Ball said.
Callaghan was jailed in 2021 for throwing a petrol bomb at a man among other offences.
But having been released in 2023, he moved in with the woman in Leeds.
The woman later said he began to take cocaine and steroids which “caused his mental health to decline”.
They would argue and he would assault her due to his jealousy and possessive behaviour.
He strangled her on six occasions, Ms Ball said.
In December 2023 he accused her of cheating and repeatedly punched her to the face.
Six weeks later he became angry after looking at her Snapchat account, accusing her of deleting a friend request from a male. He then slapped her to the face.
Then in March 2024, he started another argument, quizzing the woman about her ex partner who had “added” her on Snapchat.
He stood holding a hammer and said he would kill her. He later attacked her with a metal clothes horse.
Then on June 5, 2024, she was woken by noises outside, which was Callaghan using a garden spade to smash her window.
She tried to stop him getting inside but he overpowered her. He then interrogated her about a red car parked outside her home and searched her home she was hiding someone.
Callaghan, of no fixed address, has four previous convictions for 18 offences.
Mitigating, James Harding said Callaghan had work prospects and hoped for a future in the building trade.
Judge Penelope Belcher told Callaghan: “You do not seem to have any real understanding of the impact of your offending.”
She jailed him for three-and-a-half years and gave him a 10-year restraining order.