Ex-pro boxer battered his girlfriend until she blacked out hours after proposing to her
Romantic gesture turned to terror for the thrilled bride-to-be when drunken Gwilym beat her unconscious
A BOXER has been jailed after proposing to his girlfriend in front of pals a night club - then punching her unconscious when they got home.
Daniel Gwilym, 43, got down on one knee in a Bristol club and asked then girlfriend Zoe Walker to be his bride "in front of everyone" during a boozy night out.
But the the romantic gesture turned to terror for the thrilled bride-to-be when drunken Gwilym beat her till she blacked out hours later.
Former professional Gwilym - who once offered to fight Katie Price’s reality star ex Alex Reid for £1 million - also assaulted and racially abused a taxi driver on the way home.
He attacked the cabbie and taunted him with mock sparring while repeatedly asking him "Do you know who I am?", Bristol Crown Court was told.
Gwilym had split with his wife and had "been out drinking vodka" before he "proposed marriage to attractive Zoe at the nightspot.
But he turned on her after they got home, following the confrontation with the cabbie, punching her repeatedly in the back of the head.
The court heard Zoe - who is understood to have accepted his proposal earlier - was struck with increasing force as she lay in bed until she blacked out.
Gwilym later told police that he had had "a problem with alcohol for most of his adult life."
The boxer - who won eight and lost ten of his 18 professional bouts - has previous convictions for biting off a man's ear in a wine bar and stabbing a pal with a pair of scissors.
Details of the case, heard in August last year, only emerged yesterday when Gwilym launched an appeal arguing his sentence was too harsh.
The fighter was jailed for four-and-a-half years, with a one-year extended licence period after pleading guilty to racially aggravated common assault and was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
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But Lord Justice Hamblen cut his custodial term to four years at London's Appeal Court , after ruling the sentencing judge got it wrong.
Sitting with two other judges, he said: “While alcohol might be a trigger for his violence, it was not to blame for his aggressive and controlling behaviour.
"He perpetrated violence against his female partner and a violent and unprovoked racist attack. These were very serious offences of their type.”.
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