A “brilliant dad” who punched and bit his partner at a Pwllheli holiday park has been jailed for 17 months.

Jamie Hanley’s victim had believed she was “fighting for her life” after she woke up naked on a caravan floor at the Hafan y Môr site, prosecuting counsel Brett Williamson said.

Hanley’s foot was across her neck, Caernarfon Crown Court heard.

Mr Williamson said Hanley, 30, of Lorenzo Drive, Liverpool, had told the mum “you are going to die” and that he was going to rape her.

She had been grabbed by the hair and punched during the assault.

Clare Leith had screamed for help and been very upset, shouting: “He’s trying to kill me”.

Security staff and police were alerted. The prosecutor said she had four bite marks to her neck, although the skin wasn’t broken, and bruising particularly to the left side of the face.

But Miss Leith was in the public gallery in court and no longer sought a restraining order.

Mr Williamson said Hanley had a conviction for slashing a previous partner’s leg.

Any application for a restraining order in the current case must be made within a fortnight, Judge Huw Rees declared.

Danielle Gibbons, defending, said Hanley’s early guilty pleas to assault causing actual bodily harm and possessing small amounts of cocaine and cannabis showed his “sincere remorse”.

He was embarrassed by his actions. The violence stemmed from alcohol and drug misuse and he also misused steroids.

Judge Rees told Hanley that his victim said he was a “brilliant dad”.

But last month he had beaten her up.

In 2013 he had stabbed a former partner in the leg and punched her.

For the Pwllheli assault he was jailed for 16 months and Hanley must serve 28 days behind bars, consecutively, for possessing cocaine.