Woman whose boyfriend broke her eye socket and jaw takes him back

A girl who had her jaw, nose and eye socket broken by her violent boyfriend is back with him despite him being locked up for five years. 24 year old Kyle Illingworth attacked Livvy Heppell after she refused to return his mobile phone. He punched and stomped on her face during the sickening attack, before fleeing the scene. A court heard Illingworth battered Livvy on April 17 when he turned up at a house in Ascot Way and flew into a drink and drug-fuelled rage when she refused to give him his mobile phone back. He broke his girlfriend's jaw, nose and eye socket and left her needing a lengthy stay in an Intensive Care Unit. The couple have since got back together. Judge Stephen Ashurst, the recorder of York, described the frenzied attack as "one of the worst examples" of grievous bodily harm he had seen. The attack sparked a six-day manhunt for Illingworth as he fled the scene soon after the incident, leaving his partner's friend to call 999. When he realised the police were looking for him, he called the friend and told her "you're next" because he blamed her for police linking him to the crime. Judge Ashurst told him: "You are still only 24 years old and have an extremely bad record of offending. "However the argument between you and your girlfriend started, however much you had been drinking or she had been drinking, you completely lost any self control. "The photographs of her while she was in hospital, having been taken there from York to Leeds, are extremely disturbing. "She was in intensive care and had to have plates fixed in her jaw to repair the damage, and from reading the evidence she had done nothing to justify that kind of pounding." Illingworth was jailed for five years after pleading guilty to grievous bodily harm and will serve three years and nine months in custody and the remaining 15 months on licence..