A “JEALOUS” man who brutally attacked his teenage girlfriend in front of their children has been jailed for two years.

Kane Jones burned, whipped, punched and kicked his 17-year-old girlfriend during a sustained attack when he flew into a drunken jealous rage on June 22 last year because she’d had boyfriends before him.

The 21-year-old, who the next morning said his girlfriend was to blame for the attack, is now banned from contacting her for three years other than through lawyers.

Jones, of Calcutt Park in Cricklade, had denied two counts of actual bodily harm, saying he was acting in self defence, but a jury convicted him of both charges at Swindon Crown Court today.

The jury was shown an album of 106 photos detailing injuries all over her body.

In a witness statement, the victim said Jones had started to punch and kick her as she was putting their baby to bed.

She told the police: "I covered up with my arms to protect myself. He said 'Look how she's screaming, she wants someone to hear'. It was like he was talking to himself.”

She said Jones then took the charger for the baby thermometer and used it as a whip to lash her, leaving marks and breaking the skin.

"I was crying and asking him to stop but this just continued. I don't know how long this lasted," she told officers.

"He picked up a lighter and heated it up, held it against my shoulder and the back of my neck and caused it to blister. I screamed out in agony.

"During the incident Kane put one hand across my face and neck. He also put my face into the sofa so I couldn't breathe."

Jailing Jones, Judge Tim Mousley QC said: "It is serious in the sense that she was covered in bruises and abrasions and scratches and burns and welts.

"It may be in relation to the burns at least that she will be permanently scarred.

"It all started because you were jealous of her. That was probably exacerbated by the amount of drink you had taken.

"She was vulnerable and it was a sustained assault. It is a bad incident of domestic violence and characterised by your seeking to control her. You did it in a vindictive way."

Charley Patterson, defending Jones, said her client had no previous convictions and the assault was an isolated incident.

She said he did not normally drink but had turned to alcohol at the time of the offence after the loss of his grandfather.

Since then he had given up drinking and “expresses sincere remorse for what happened that night,” she said.