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Jack Woodman(Image: Avon & Somerset Police)<\/p>\nThe man committed a number of assaults on his partner over a five year periodJack Woodman(Image: Avon & Somerset Police)<\/p>\n
A violent woman beater who verbally and physically abused his partner over a five year period has been jailed.<\/p>\n
Jack Woodman, 33 and of Tennis Court Road in Kingswood<\/a>, was convicted at court in February 2025.<\/p>\n He was convicted of one count of grievous bodily harm and two counts of actual bodily harm.<\/p>\n He was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court to two and a half years in jail on Monday, April 14.<\/p>\n The court heard that Woodman was verbally and physically abusive towards his 28-year-old partner, Crystal Taffs.<\/p>\n The abuse was often in front of their two young children between 2017 and 2022.<\/p>\n Woodman\u2019s assaults escalated from abuse to hair pulling and punching.<\/p>\n In November 2018, he broke her jaw, then left her in pain and went out with his friends.<\/p>\n Ms Taffs required surgery as her jaw was broken in two places.<\/p>\n On June 19, 2022, Ms Taffs collected Woodman from a casino, where he had lost significantly.<\/p>\n He was angry and took it out on her, hitting her face while holding a phone and glasses case.<\/p>\n He said he hoped he\u2019d broken her jaw again, continued to verbally abuse her and poured a drink over her.<\/p>\n When they reached their home Ms Taffs waited for Woodman to go inside before fleeing in the car with her children, who had witnessed what happened.<\/p>\n She bravely reported the abuse to police.<\/p>\n Avon and Somerset Police<\/a> said: “If you have been affected by domestic abuse, you can find information here: Support for victims of domestic abuse | Avon and Somerset Police<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man committed a number of assaults on his partner over a five year periodJack Woodman(Image: Avon &…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,748,188,393,4884,19406,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-68954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-kingswood","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114439414649753941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}