A lance corporal who escorted the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at their wedding assaulted his girlfriend in a dispute about cold toast.
Daniel Ridge, 31, a tank commander and member of the Household Cavalry, pinned his girlfriend of two years, Johanna Cade, 27, to a bed while threatening to leave her in a pool of blood at her London flat in October last year, Wimbledon magistrates were told.
He then put the nurse’s £300 boots into a pot of boiling water and squirted shower gel all over her clothes. The court was told how Ridge had begun throwing tumblers and eggs at his girlfriend after she had remarked that the toast he made was cold.
Miss Cade told the court: “I said, ‘The toast is cold’, and his response was, ‘Fine, don’t have it. I’ll make my own, not yours’. He picked an egg up and threw it at me. I dodged that one and he threw another one at me and I dodged that one. He was quite angry and intense and I was disgusted and frightened.
“He raised a glass tumbler up in the air and threw that at me. I moved and it hit the floor behind me then he raised up a second one and threw it at me and again I moved.” He then wrapped her in a duvet and tried to throttle her, she said.
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Ridge, from Combermere Barracks, Windsor, was convicted of assault and criminal damage. He was given 12 months’ probation, 100 hours of community work, and ordered to pay Miss Cade £300 in compensation and £370 for the damage.