A MAN who went "off the rails" after his baby and partner died has been jailed for attacking a later girlfriend.

Patrick Toner turned on the woman including choking her and hitting her with an ashtray.

The 44 year-old suffered a double tragedy in 2010 when his daughter passed away as a result of a cot death before his then partner took her own life.

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He got to know the woman in this case as her child had died in the same way.

The crimes occurred mainly at a flat in Glasgow's Maryhill as well in a street in Falkirk, Stirlingshire between July and October 2019.

Toner was locked up for five years after he pleaded guilty to six charges at Glasgow High Court including assaulting the woman to her injury and danger of life.

He first assaulted his lover by smacking her on the head with an ashtray.

Toner later pinned her against a bus stop following a visit to his sister's house for dinner.

The most serious attack occurred at the flat in the city's Wyndford Road which included him grabbing the woman by the neck.

His QC Murray Macara said: "He accepts that he came off the rails when his daughter and partner died.

"It is that tragedy that brought him together with the woman in this case.

"She had lost a child to cot death. They realised that they had a shared common bond of tragedy."

The court heard the final assault occurred around the anniversary of the death of the woman's child.

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Lord Mulholland told Toner: "This was a course of criminal conduct.

"You struck her with an ashtray...you compressed her throat, stopped before doing it again.

"You threatened to kill her. Her life was in danger."