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A Mixed Martial Arts fighter who told a Channel 4 documentary he wanted to prove people who thought he would end up in prison wrong has been jailed for throttling his ex-girlfriend.
Demornia Cantrill, 24, featured in a true-life 2015 film about his upbringing in care and how he was desperate to be a success.
He told the documentary 'I want to prove to everybody who says I'm just going to be a drug dealer or in prison - I want to prove them wrong and show that just 'cause I had a sh** upbringing doesn't mean I can't change it.'
But this week he was starting 20 months behind bars after leaving trainee social worker Tyra Campbell in fear her of life when he choked her with one hand until she could barely breathe.
A court heard Miss Campbell rang police Cantrill who fought with the Blackburn Predators MMA team in Lancashire told her: 'Snitches get stitches.' After being arrested, he told police it was 'a joke'.
At time he had been in the process of completing a community order over an attack on his own mother and assault on police.
Demornia Cantrill, 24, featured in a true-life 2015 film about his upbringing on Channel 4
The Mixed Martial Arts fighter had been determined to put his upbringing in care to good
This week Cantrill, from Hulme, was starting 20 months behind bars for domestic abuse attack
At Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester, Judge John Edwards told Cantrill: 'Domestic abuse is far from a joke, and throttling somebody, as you did, to exert ultimate control over them is a highly dangerous form of violence.
'You subjected Miss Campbell to a terrifying ordeal - the offence of violence with a partner is particularly serious because it represents a violation of trust
