'Danger to women' jailed indefinitely; Man battered his partner to death after bar row.Byline: LUKETRAYNOR A MAN who battered his partner to death has been locked up indefinitely for the public's protection. Claire Hanley, 31, was attacked by Brian Davies Brian Davies can stand for:
The killer left her beaten and bruised to die on the sofa. Davies, 49, was given an indeterminate sentence indeterminate sentence: see parole; sentence. for public protection yesterday at Liverpool Crown Court. But His Honour Judge Gerald Clifton shocked Ms Hanley's grieving family by announcing he would serve a minimum five-year tariff. As he has spent 217 days in custody, Davies could be released in about four years. Davies, described by the judge as "a danger to women", had a history of attacking his previous female partners. In the 1980s, he and his brother raped a hairdresser they met in Liverpool city centre, attacking her twice on a deserted Otterspool promenade Otterspool Promenade is a riverside walk and accompanying area of parkland in the Aigburth and Grassendale districts of South Liverpool; it runs along the bank of the River Mersey from just north of Garston docks to Otterspool Park. . Ms Hanley's family broke down in tears when the sentence was announced. On November 3 last year, tempers flared between the couple in a city centre bar after Davies accused Ms Hanley of dancing with a younger man. The pair argued and Ms Hanley got a taxi home to Sergrim Road on her own, closely followed by Davies. At around 12.30am, neighbours heard the couple arguing and, in court, the defendant admitted "slapping her twice across the face to calm her down". But detectives rejected Davies's downplaying of the blow. Ms Hanley suffered massive bleeding to the brain. The defendant left, though his son, Brian junior, 26, remained at the house, where he had been babysitting Ms Hanley's children. He described watching the 31-yearold mumbling, slurring her words and vomiting vomiting, ejection of food and other matter from the stomach through the mouth, often preceded by nausea. The process is initiated by stimulation of the vomiting center of the brain by nerve impulses from the gastrointestinal tract or other part of the body. as she lay on the sofa. But he claimed he thought she was drunk. Hours later, she was dead. Judge Clifton told Davies: "You had forcibly forc·i·ble adj. 1. Effected against resistance through the use of force: The police used forcible restraint in order to subdue the assailant. 2. Characterized by force; powerful. punched her in the face at least once during an argument with such force you cause a large haemorrhage she later died from. "Then you left her in the house, virtually unattended, and went off into the night. You intended to do her really serious harm." CAPTION(S): Brian Davies Claire Hanley -found dead at her home in Huyton |
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