A 35-YEAR-OLD jumped to a conclusion when he caught his girlfriend leaving her flat with her ex-partner after she failed to turn up to meet him.

Blackburn magistrates heard Adam John Walker attacked the other man and then slapped his girlfriend causing her to fall to the floor.

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The court was told he had initially pleaded not guilty to assaulting Katie Pilkington because she alleged he had punched and kicked her repeatedly.

But he changed his plea when the prosecution accepted his version of events.

Walker, of Troon Avenue, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to assaulting Miss Pilkington and Iain Sandilands.

He was sentenced to five months in prison suspended for 24 months, ordered to complete 25 days rehabilitation activity requirement and pay £250 compensation to Miss Pilkington and £75 to Mr Sandilands.

Enza Geldard, prosecuting, said in his basis of plea Walker said when he saw his girlfriend and her former partner leaving her flat he “immediately but mistakenly” thought she was being unfaithful.

He said he had a fight with Mr Sandilands which he started and then slapped his girlfriend causing her to fall to the floor.

She said Walker had been jailed for two years in 2009 for an attack on a then-girlfriend’s ex-partner.

Paul Huxley, defending, said his client had been out drinking for most of the day on a stag do.

He had been in contact with his girlfriend via text messages and she was meant to be meeting him.

“She kept saying she would be there in five minutes but that became a couple of hours and he decided to go to see what was going on,” said Mr Huxley.

“As he got to her flat she and her ex-partner were coming down the stairs and he jumped to a conclusion.”

He said Walker hoped the relationship with Miss Pilkington would continue but that was very much in her court.