DURHAM POLICE • OFFENDERS.ORG.UK • O-9487
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Assault, GBH & woundingDomestic abuse & coercive control
STUART BENTON
Age 27 · Peterlee, County Durham
Court outcomeReceived a six-year and three-month sentence
- Case reference
- O-9487
- Sentence type
- Immediate custody
- Court
- Teesside Crown Court
- Plea or verdict
- Admitted controlling and coercive behaviour
Verified case summary
Stuart Benton’s twenty-seven and from Peterlee.
He’s been jailed for six years and three months after admitting a string of offences against a woman.
The court heard he strangled her until she passed out, smashed her phone when she tried to call nine nine nine, and attacked her again in a separate incident.
Benton originally denied the charges but changed his plea on the day his trial was due to begin.
At Teesside Crown Court, he admitted controlling and coercive behaviour, intentional strangulation and two further assault charges.
The judge also imposed an indefinite restraining order.