Overview
- Murray pleaded guilty at Minshull Street Crown Court to strangulation, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and assault by beating.
- He appeared for sentencing via video link from Forest Bank prison following guilty pleas over two incidents in 2023.
- Prosecutors said he entered his ex-partner’s home on July 15, 2023, strangled her for about 45 seconds, repeatedly punched her, and bit her breast.
- In a separate incident on January 20, 2023, he punched a woman during a driveway dispute, leaving her with a broken nose while her children were in the car.
- Victim statements described lasting psychological harm, while the defense cited his injury-forced 2014 retirement, the later closure of his Reddish gym, and subsequent struggles after working as a delivery driver.