Callum Ellis

Introduction

Callum Ellis is a 26-year-old man from Lincoln who was jailed for two years and ten months at Lincoln Crown Court after admitting strangling his partner during a sustained assault and then subjecting her to a relentless campaign of calls and messages when she ended the relationship . Ellis admitted grabbing his partner’s throat on three occasions, with the final incident lasting about 30 seconds and leaving her with a bump on her head after he slammed her against a wall . He pleaded guilty to four charges — assault occasioning actual bodily harm, common assault, intentional strangulation and harassment — and was sentenced in breach of a suspended prison sentence imposed only months earlier .

Background Information

Ellis, of Shakespeare Street in Lincoln, was already known to the courts when the offences occurred: he was in breach of a six-month suspended prison sentence that had been passed in June 2024 . In mitigation, defence counsel Tom Heath told the court Ellis was in the process of being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, had attended ten different schools during his childhood, and that “some of that transient nature has passed into adulthood”, with daily alcohol and drug use aggravating matters . The sentencing hearing was covered by BBC Lincolnshire reporting of Lincoln Crown Court proceedings .

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Pleaded guilty to strangulation and harassment; sentenced.

Lincoln Crown Court heard that during a sustained assault Ellis grabbed his partner’s throat on three occasions, that the final strangulation lasted about 30 seconds, and that he slammed her against a wall hard enough to leave her with a bump on her head . In a separate incident on 21 May he grabbed her by the throat for a few seconds, and a week later — after going through her phone — he punched her in the face while she was in bed, leaving her with a cut lip and a black eye, and told her she would have to wear make-up to conceal the injury . The woman ended the relationship three days after the sustained assault, but Ellis then bombarded her with hundreds of calls and social media messages from different phones, to the point that she was forced to leave her home . Ellis admitted all of the conduct, pleading guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm, common assault, intentional strangulation and harassment .

Public Reaction and Consequences

Sentencing, Judge James House KC told Ellis his behaviour was aggravated by his previous convictions, the domestic context of the offending and the presence of children during the assaults . “There were hundreds of calls. It understandably caused her considerable fear,” the judge said . The case drew local coverage as another example of intimate-partner strangulation — an offence the courts treat as a red-flag indicator of escalating domestic danger — being prosecuted alongside the harassment campaign that followed the relationship’s end, and resulted in an immediate custodial sentence of two years and ten months .

Current Status

Ellis is serving a prison sentence of two years and ten months imposed at Lincoln Crown Court, with the sentence activated on his guilty pleas to four charges and in breach of the suspended sentence passed in June 2024 . The BBC’s report of the sentencing was published around 6 November 2026; no appeal against the sentence was reported . His admissions cover every count, so the facts of the case are his own, formally accepted in court .

Impact on Their Career/Life

At 26, Ellis exchanges his liberty for a custodial sentence that also activates the suspended term he was already serving, meaning his criminal record now holds convictions for strangulation, repeated assault and harassment of the same victim, aggravated in the judge’s findings by the domestic context and the presence of children . The mitigation offered — undiagnosed ADHD, a transient childhood and daily substance use — was recorded by the court but did not keep him out of prison, and the harassment campaign that followed the relationship means his name is now attached to a pattern of post-separation abuse of the kind domestic-abuse charities and police forces flag as among the most dangerous to victims .

Sources

• “Man jailed for strangling partner during assault” — BBC News, circa 6 November 2026: source