MAGISTRATES imposed a 16-week suspended jail sentence on a man who head butted his wife when told she was dumping him in favour of her new partner.

George Vaughan had left his wife with blood pouring from a wound after her head bounced off a wall with “a sickening thud.”

He had also grabbed her around the throat with both hands during the incident, Fenland magistrates were told.

Last month 55-year-old Vaughan of Russell Avenue, March, had admitted a charge of assault causing actual bodily harm.

This week magistrates read a report before giving Vaughan a suspended jail sentence, with requirements that he carries out 220 hours of unpaid work, and is supervised by the probation service for 12 months. He was given a two year restraining order and must pay his victim �100 compensation.

At last month’s hearing, the court was told how Vaughan had asked his wife to chose between him and her new liaison -- and when she chose her new relationship he had just snapped.

Mitigating, Ian Graham had said: “It was the cold manner in which she said she no longer loved him or wanted him that caused him to snap.

“He is absolutely devastated that his marriage should come to an end, particularly in this way.”