A MAN who repeatedly punched his partner in the stomach because he feared she was pregnant has been jailed.

Troy Harris also hit the 18-year-old three times in the face until she became unconscious and told her "you are not having this baby".

Wolverhampton Crown Court heard the 25-year-old had also put his hands around the throat of a previous partner and squeezed until she struggled for breath.

He had also held a knife against her neck.

"You are quite probably dangerous," said Judge Nicholas Webb as he ruled Harris would almost certainly be deported back to Bermuda after he had completed his 51 month spell behind bars.

He told Harris it must have been "very frightening" for his victim and said he had used his "superior strength and power" against his second victim, who he believed was pregnant.

Harris, of Sedgley Road, admitted two charges of assault causing actual bodily harm, two charges of common assault and another of burgling the Birmingham home of a friend.

Hugh Williams, prosecuting, said Harris spotted the friend had dropped his house keys in his car and he went back to the Edgbaston property and stole computer equipment valued at £3,000.

Christopher Roach, defending, said Harris had quickly sold the property so he could send money back to his mother in Bermuda to buy medication.

He said that Harris who had been released from a prison sentence in Bermuda only months earlier had been "desperate" because his mother was seriously ill.