A JEALOUS boyfriend attacked his partner with a 'flamethrower' after spraying a hairspray can and igniting with a lighter during a terrifying New Year’s Day ordeal.

Rory Allcock’s petrified girlfriend thought he was going to burn her face after accusing her of having an affair, prosecutor Paul Hewitt told Cardiff Crown Court.

The defendant, from Cwmbran, has a history of violence and was often envious and controlling during the couple’s two-year relationship, Judge Jeremy Jenkins heard.

Mr Hewitt said Allcock and his now ex-partner had gone out in the town on New Year’s Eve to see in 2019 at a local pub.

He told the court: “His then girlfriend said he could be aggressive when he was drinking. She said she’d had enough and wanted to go home.

“The defendant was drunk and became jealous and was insisting she was in a relationship with someone called Dan.”

Mr Hewitt told Judge Jenkins that his partner went back to her flat and left the door open for Allcock who returned at 3am.

The prosecutor said he tried to take the duvet away from her and then pushed her before spraying the hairspray can and igniting it with a lighter.

His horrified girlfriend ran out of the flat crying and raised the alarm at a neighbour who told police: “She said that he had tried to set fire to her. She looked very scared.”

Mr Hewitt read out the complainant’s victim impact statement in which she said: “He was jealous and controlling in our relationship and during arguments, he would push me around.

“I really thought he was going to burn my face.”

Unemployed Allcock, aged 30, of Fields Road, Oakfield, pleaded guilty to two counts of common assault.

The defendant has eight previous convictions for 25 offences, including assaulting a police officer, wounding, public disorder and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Peter Donnison, mitigating, admitted: “It was a dangerous thing to do and stupid.”

Judge Jenkins told Allcock: “You must have terrified her. What you did was both stupid and extremely dangerous. It could have resulted in serious injury.”

He jailed him for 10 weeks and ordered him to pay £150 prosecution cost and a victim surcharge.

Allcock was also made the subject of a five-year restraining order not to contact his former partner.