A WOMAN was attacked by her partner after she suggested selling her body to ease their financial problems.

A court heard how Stephen Day had spent money earmarked to pay bills and got involved in a row with partner Tiffany Brand.

“She suggested she sell herself and her body and this angered him,” Emma Nash, prosecuting, told Chelmsford Crown Court.

Day, 23, grabbed Miss Brand by the hair, punched and bit her at their home in Gurdon Road, St Anne’s, Colchester, on July 17 this year.

Day admitted charges of actual bodily harm and possessing cannabis. He also admitted being in breach of a suspended sentence imposed for an earlier matter.

Catherine Bradshaw, mitigating, said Day had a number of problems, including drug use, he was seeking help for.

Judge Christopher Ball QC told Day: “You take cannabis in the same way other people drink a glass of milk.”

The judge activated three months of the earlier 12- month suspended sentence. Day was also given a fresh 12-month sentence suspended for two years and a two- year supervision order.

He must also take part in drug rehabilitation and domestic abuse programmes run by the probation service.

As he had spent the equivalent of a four-month sentence on remand, Day was freed by the court.