A man beat-up his partner, choked her, and then fired a crossbow at her head during a drunken attack, a court has heard.
Adam Calland had spent the days before the assault sending the woman abusive text messages and telling her he was bleeding to death after cutting his finger. When she went to check on his welfare, he attacked her.
Swansea Crown Court heard police had seized a haul of weapons from him four months before the incident, but no further action seemed to have been taken - prompting a judge to say it was a pity alarm bells had not rung with the authorities at an earlier stage.
