He warned her ‘I’m going to chew your face off’
Kai Marsh was jailed at Hull Crown Court(Image: Humberside Police)
A vodka-drinking troublemaker warned his girlfriend “I’m going to chew your face off” during violent scenes in the early hours of the morning after an England football match. Kai Marsh had earlier hurled a garden ornament through a window of her car, showering her with glass, as she sat inside, Hull Crown Court heard.
Marsh, 24, of Beverley, but recently in custody on remand, admitted assaulting the woman, causing actual bodily harm, on July 11. He also admitted causing criminal damage to her car.
Oliver Shipley, prosecuting, said that the woman went to her mother’s home in Beverley with Marsh to watch an England football match in the World Cup. Some of her friends were at a bar in Flemingate, Beverley, and Marsh was keen to go there but she thought that “bad influences” might be there and that he might be tempted to take drugs.
At half time, the woman reluctantly agreed to go into town but they saw that the bar was very busy so went to another one, off Saturday Market, to watch the rest of the match. Marsh went “back and forth” to the toilets.
They got home between 1.30 and 2am but Marsh was keen to go somewhere else and carry on the night. He wanted to get some drugs but his girlfriend was annoyed.
“She went into the house and up to bed, leaving him alone,” said Mr Shipley. “He went upstairs in an argumentative state of mind.”
Marsh pushed the woman onto the bed and they were arguing. “She managed to push him off,” said Mr Shipley.
“She went outside the front of her house and rang her sister to come round.” The sister arrived and stayed for 30 minutes but Marsh later asked where a vodka bottle that he had been drinking from had gone.
The woman went out to the car to try to ring her sister again. She sat in the passenger seat, with the doors locked, and sent a text message to Marsh, saying that she wanted him to leave.
Marsh came outside, continued arguing, picked up a round garden table and used it to smash the passenger’s side window, showering the woman in glass. She suffered cuts and lacerations.
“The defendant leaned into the car to try to grab the phone,” said Mr Shipley. “He grabbed her hair and tried to pull at it. He grabbed the phone from her and left. The police arrived shortly after.”
Marsh returned at 7am and shouted: “Fat sl*g. I’m going to chew your face off.” He threw garden furniture and ornaments at the house. The police arrived. “The defendant ran off,” said Mr Shipley.
Marsh had convictions for 35 previous offences. He was in breach of a 12-week suspended prison sentence imposed on February 12 for driving offences.
Connor Stuart, mitigating, said that Marsh pleaded guilty at the first opportunity. “There is no attempt to minimise this,” said Mr Stuart.
Marsh had repaid the £40 cost of the broken window. The woman had managed to get it replaced for a cheap price.
There was a history of drug addiction but Marsh had recently been doing very well on tackling his drug and alcohol problems. “When he relapses, that’s when we have the trouble,” said Mr Stuart.
Judge Richard Woolfall told Marsh: “When you take drink and drugs, it’s not good for anybody and people end up getting hurt. This was an offence that was prolonged and persistent.
“If you continue to commit offences, you are at risk of getting longer and longer sentences.” Marsh was jailed for eight months, with a consecutive 12 weeks for breaching the suspended sentence, making a total of about 11 months.
On October 4, 2023, Marsh was jailed for 14 months and he was banned from driving for two-and-a-half years. He admitted aggravated vehicle taking, driving while disqualified, failing to provide a breath specimen, having no insurance and assaulting a police officer as an emergency worker on July 18, 2023.
The court heard that day that he was banned from driving at the time. He had been drinking heavily when he took his girlfriend’s car and sped away in it before hurtling over a speed bump so fast that the vehicle flew up into the air and crashed into two other cars.
Marsh had been arguing with his girlfriend and his “head was in bits” before he drove off down the road in her car. The suspension of the car broke because of the sheer force of landing back on the road after leaving the ground on the speed bump.
The vehicle crashed into a woman’s oncoming car before hitting a parked car, the court heard. The driver later threatened to headbutt a policeman and told him: “I can’t wait to see you around Beverley. It’s a good job I’m in cuffs.”
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