Callum Lydiate viciously assaulted his girlfriend within months of meeting her on TikTok
21:13, 11 Jun 2025Updated 21:15, 11 Jun 2025
Callum Lydiate(Image: Facebook)
A serial domestic abuser was left smashing his own head against the pavement after developing a “paranoid” belief his TikTok girlfriend was hiding another man in her attic. Callum Lydiate viciously assaulted his new partner within months of meeting her via the social media platform, repeatedly punching and kicking her before pulling out clumps of her hair.
The thug has now been convicted of violent offences against three women with who he has been in relationships. A judge today told him he had a “worrying side to his personality” and urged him to “do better”, adding: “Only you can make that choice.”
Liverpool Crown Court heard this afternoon, Wednesday, that Lydiate, of Deanland Drive in Speke, began a relationship with Lucy Price after the couple met on TikTok around three months prior to May 2 this year. On that morning, the 26-year-old defendant attended his girlfriend’s Liscard home clutching a bottle of vodka.
Bethany Leigh, prosecuting, described how he had already consumed half of its contents and proceeded to drink the rest during the course of the afternoon. By around 6.30pm, Lydiate had “become paranoid there was someone upstairs in the loft” to the extent that he began repeatedly punching and kicking a screaming Ms Price in her bedroom.
He went on to smash her television before she ran downstairs in an effort to escape the violence. But she was pursued by her boyfriend, who took her phone from her and hid it behind a cushion on the sofa before telling her: “You’re not getting out of this house alive.”
Lydiate then continued “hitting her all over” before she was ultimately able to flee. Having later returned, believing the coast was clear, she was greeted by the sight of her partner at the front door, at which stage he dragged her to the ground by her hair, pulling clumps out.
Neighbours were able to intervene however, with her attacker then hitting his own head against the pavement and a fence before police attended the scene and arrested him. Lydiate has a total of five previous convictions for nine offences.
These include assaults against two other ex-girlfriends, one of who he similarly punched, kicked and pulled the hair of. Charles Lander, defending, told the court: “The defendant explains his behaviour through drink and drugs.
“He accepts that his behaviour is aggravated by his previous convictions. He has found this time in custody difficult. He says that he has not left his cell door, save for receiving food.
“I hope that the court will accept that there is an element of remorse. Ultimately, he is determined to knuckle down and address his issues. He is concerned about his mother and father while he is away and, particularly, his grandma, who has been diagnosed with a serious illness.”
Lydiate admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm and criminal damage. Appearing via video link to HMP Liverpool wearing a sky blue Montirex tracksuit top, he was jailed for 18 months and handed a five-year restraining order.
Sentencing, the Honorary Recorder of Liverpool Judge Andrew Menary KC said: “You and she had begun a relationship about three months or so before, but it is clear that, on the day of the incident, you had been drinking. She describes you becoming more and more paranoid during the day, believing, in some way, that she was having an affair with somebody else, or that there was someone else in the property.
“It is plain that you have a worrying side to your personality, not simply because of the circumstances of this offence but also given your record of past offending involving the use of violence with people who you are having relationships in domestic settings. All of this must have been very terrifying indeed for Lucy Price. I have seen photographs showing bruising and marks all over her upper body.
“You have worrying characteristics of being violent towards others. I hope that you take advantage of any courses you are offered in custody and hope that you come out determined to do better. Only you can make that choice.”