Insurance executive, 62, lifted girlfriend onto her tiptoes by the throat during violent row
A City insurance executive lifted his ‘petrified’ girlfriend onto her tiptoes by the throat during a violent row at their £1.6m west London flat, a court heard. Howard James Burnell, 62, was convicted of assaulting his then-girlfriend Mary Phillips in the doorway of his flat in Little Green, Richmond, where they both lived, after a dinner date on … Read more