A MAN flew into a jealous rage after overhearing his girlfriend talking about sex at the top of her voice in a shop, a court was told.

Blackburn magistrates watched a video tape that showed Vincent Cook, 25, storm into the shop, grab his girlfriend by the hair and drag her to the floor.

And his momentary loss of control earned him an eight month prison sentence after the court heard it came less than a month after he was sentenced for another assault on the same girl.

Cook, of Brodick Road, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to assaulting Lindsey Brunt. He was sentenced to two months for the latest attack and the magistrates invoked the six month suspended sentence imposed in October, both to run consecutively.

Andrew Church-Taylor, defending, said Miss Brunt had come to court in support of her boyfriend but suggested that neither she nor any of the other people featured in the tape came out of it with any credit.

The video tape showed Miss Brunt, another female and a male in the shop along with members of staff. The male and the other female were clearly heard discussing sex and Miss Brunt shouted out that she "loved it."

"The door was open and my client heard what she said," said Mr Church-Taylor. "He accepts that he went in and pulled her to the floor by her hair."

He said his client had been grieving for a relative and he had been drinking heavily.