article_snippet.sent: A thug who repeatedly attacked his girlfriend and dragged her by the hair was 'almost too dangerous' for prison.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Bridget Knight described the 26-year-old as a 'caveman' - but despite this ordered Samuel Tushingham to go on a relationship course instead of sentencing Samuel Tushingham to jail.
article_snippet.sent: After a trial at Halton Magistrates' Court, his girlfriend told Judge Bridget Knight: 'You acted like a caveman, dragging the victim by the hair and assaulting his girlfriend over a period of months between April and September. '
article_snippet.sent: You are almost too dangerous for me to send you to prison because you need work done on Judge Bridget Knight. '
article_snippet.sent: You will be on the course with other men and I hope you find it quite repulsive the excuses people give for beating a woman because there is no excuse for acting like this.'
article_snippet.sent: He must also carry out 80 hours of unpaid work and pay more than £1,300 in costs and fines, and is banned from contacting He victim.
article_snippet.sent: The judge who spared He jail previously told footballer Carlos Tevez it would be 'overly punitive' for He to hand over He £55,000 Porsche after He was convicted of a driving offence, and fined He £3,000 instead.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Knight also made headlines when Ms Knight criticised Coronation Street star Barbara Knox for wasting court time by pleading not guilty to drink-driving and then admitting the offence at the last minute.
article_snippet.sent: round the head then dragged Ms Knight out of bed by her hair, hitting the head against a radiator.
article_snippet.sent: Wendy Newton, prosecuting, said: 'the victim said that the reason Ms Knight had not reported the incidents earlier was because Ms Knight didn't think the incidents were serious enough to waste police time with. '
article_snippet.sent: But after speaking to Ms Knight mother, Ms Knight realised that the violence was getting worse.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Judge Bridget Knight says Judge Bridget Knight is 'almost too dangerous to send to prison'
  Thug is given a suspended sentence and told to go on relationship course .