VIOLENT OFFENDER LOUIS WELLS JAILED FOR BRUTAL ATTACK AND ASSAULT

A man identified as Louis Wells has been involved in a violent attack on his ex-partner at her home in Peterlee. According to reports, Wells turned up uninvited during the early hours of March 28 and engaged in a brutal assault, punching and strangling the woman. He was accompanied by another individual wearing a balaclava, who watched the attack. After the assault, police changed the locks on the woman's house, but Wells returned later that day, kicked in her door, and was found sitting at her bed, crying and professing love to her. The woman managed to escape and called police again. Wells was later arrested and taken to Sunderland Royal Infirmary due to medical issues, where he became aggressive, headbutted a police officer, and verbally abused staff. The victim expressed that she was terrified she might have been killed and will never forgive him for attacking her in front of her children. Wells, who has 27 previous convictions for 59 offences, pleaded guilty to charges including criminal damage, assaulting an emergency worker, and assault causing actual bodily harm. The court heard he had been in a long-term relationship with the victim, which ended two years prior, and was not welcome at her home where she lived with their three children. The attack involved strangulation, punching, threatening her with death, and lasted around five minutes. Judge Ray Singh sentenced Wells to 20 months in prison and imposed a 10-year restraining order against him.