He had met Miss Higgins following his release from jail in May this year and quickly began a relationship with descended into violence. In the early hours of May 4 she was at her home in Solihull when Cooper turned up, and at first she refused to let him in, but then opened the door. But at that time Miss Higgins, who had bruising, swelling and bleeding to her face, felt she could not make a complaint. Before the second attack, Cooper had gone to the home of a friend of her aunt, Louise Kuzminski, who was on her phone when he demanded she find a number for him. Sentencing, Judge Anthony Potter, when speaking of Cooper’s third attack on Miss Higgins, he said: “It is an assault which was chilling in its manner.

Source: Daily Mirror December 06, 2020 17:40 UTC