A WOMAN leaped from the first-floor window of an Upton hotel because she feared she was going to die.

Fay Pester was being held captive at the Swan Hotel and tortured by former partner Francis Grybowicz.

She had agreed to meet him while he was on the run, after failing to turn up for a court hearing about an earlier drunken attack on her.

At Warwick Crown Court, Grybowicz was given an indeterminate prison sentence, with the judge ordering that he should serve at least four-and-a-half years.

Grybowicz, aged 47, of no fixed abode, had pleaded guilty to assault, grievous bodily harm with intent, causing damage, two charges of false imprisonment and two of making threats to kill.

Prosecutor Simon Ward said Mrs Pester, aged 68, and Grybowicz had met in October last year and begun a stormy relationship. He had been living in woods near her holiday bungalow in Bewdley. In December, he attacked her, tied her up and threatened to kill her.

Mrs Pester's son called the police and Grybowicz was arrested, but he went on the run after getting bail.

Mrs Pester kept in contact with him and they met up at the Swan, where he got drunk and passed out on the bathroom floor.

When he woke, he spent the rest on the night beating and torturing her, breaking her collarbone, burning her with a lighter and strangling her.

She jumped from the window and was seen by passers-by, who called emergency services.

Andrew Wallace, for Grybowicz, said a psychiatric report said he had no mental illness.

Judge Richard Bray said he had given serious consideration to a life sentence.

A WOMAN leaped from the first-floor window of an Upton hotel because she feared she was going to die.

Fay Pester was being held captive at the Swan Hotel and tortured by former partner Francis Grybowicz.

She had agreed to meet him while he was on the run, after failing to turn up for a court hearing about an earlier drunken attack on her.

At Warwick Crown Court, Grybowicz was given an indeterminate prison sentence, with the judge ordering that he should serve at least four-and-a-half years.

Grybowicz, aged 47, of no fixed abode, had pleaded guilty to assault, grievous bodily harm with intent, causing damage, two charges of false imprisonment and two of making threats to kill.

Prosecutor Simon Ward said Mrs Pester, aged 68, and Grybowicz had met in October last year and begun a stormy relationship. He had been living in woods near her holiday bungalow in Bewdley. In December, he attacked her, tied her up and threatened to kill her.

Mrs Pester's son called the police and Grybowicz was arrested, but he went on the run after getting bail.

Mrs Pester kept in contact with him and they met up at the Swan, where he got drunk and passed out on the bathroom floor.

When he woke, he spent the rest on the night beating and torturing her, breaking her collarbone, burning her with a lighter and strangling her.

She jumped from the window and was seen by passers-by, who called emergency services.

Andrew Wallace, for Grybowicz, said a psychiatric report said he had no mental illness.

Judge Richard Bray said he had given serious consideration to a life sentence.