The Vibe Bar (formerly the Ice Bar)A MAN who dragged his girlfriend across the floor by her hair, bit her neck and then stamped on her head in a drunken attack has walked free from court.

Bar boss Mukesh Kanabar only stopped the brutal assault at the back of the Ice Bar after police, arrived at the scene.

The terrified victim managed to dial 999 on her mobile phone as she was being beaten and say 'Ice Bar' to the police operator.

But the 30-year-old, who has a string of previous convictions, was not sent to prison by Judge Charles Wade.

Kanabar, who had an interest in the now defunct town centre bar, had been seeing Cara Mastro-domenico for seven to eight months before the incident.

Ian Halliday, prosecuting, said the victim had gone to the bar in the early hours of Wednesday September 29 last year and found Kanabar drunk.

Mr Halliday said: "She had found in the past that he could be unreasonable when he was in that condition. She didn't stay with him but gave someone a lift home and returned to the bar at around 5am.

"Miss Mastrodomenico was sat down and the defendant said 'You hate me, don't you?'"

He then grabbed her by and dragged her by her hair across the floor through the kitchen to a back alley.

"The defendant then bit her neck. She tried to push him away and he lost his glasses, which seemed to anger him more.

"He put her to the floor; using his foot he pressed her head to the floor then stamped on it.

"She had her mobile with her and managed to dial 999. In a distraught incoherent call she managed to say 'Ice Bar' to the operator."

"When the police arrived the injured party was still prone with the defendant standing over her," Mr Halliday said.

Kanabar, of Bolton Street, West End, Leicester, pleaded guilty to actual bodily harm.

Paul Orton, defending, said that his client who was under a great deal of stress.

The bar business was going under he said and Kanabar wanted to get out of the relationship he was having with the defendant.

Passing sentence the judge said "It surprises me from what she said that you did not more seriously injure her.

"It is the sort of action which courts look on seriously and almost always meet with custody."

Instead he ordered Kanabar to do 180 hours of community service and pay £500 compensation.

Jamie Hill