A COMPANY director who carried out a “campaign of of psychological and physical violence” on his partner has been told to expect jail.

Simon Lambert, a £130,000-a-year executive, formerly of Ullswater Close, Great Notley, was found guilty by a jury of five offences of causing actual bodily harm.

The 40-year-old was also found guilty of two offences of criminal damage, involving mobile phones, but was cleared of one offence of causing actual bodily harm because there was insufficient evidence.

Chelmsford Crown Court was told Lambert became jealous, claiming Diane Robinson would have “any man in the world” and she “fancied black men”.

On one occasion he struck Mrs Robinson on the nose, making it bleed, and threw her a tea towel telling her to clean the floor, the court heard.

Lambert, a regional director based at a Cambridge leasing company and former BAA executive, claimed she was “bonkers”.

But a jury returned a guilty verdict in seven offences.

Lambert, now of Church Street, Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, was bailed until September 7 for pre-sentence reports.

Judge Charles Gratwicke told him: “The court wants to know more about you.”

The couple had moved in together at the rented west wing of White Notley Hall in 2007, about eight months after they met.

The court was told Mrs Robinson initially considered their relationship was good, with a “caring, loving and fun partner”.

Jamie Sawyer, prosecuting, said Lambert become “jealous and over-possessive”.

He said Mrs Robinson had begun to feel more and more isolated, while arguments became “more and more intense”.

On one occasion he dragged her around by her hair and tried to kick her, the court had been told.

Days later he smashed two of her mobile phones against the wall before he dragged her by her hair, kicked her, poured a can of drink over her head and hit her with a tent pole.

Mrs Robinson, a part-time secretary for an engineering company in Dunmow, and formerly of Great Bardfield, told the jury: “It was all about jealousy – if men looked at me or if there was a black man around.”