A woman who was pregnant thought she was going to die during a pair of assaults in her own home, a court has been told.
Daniel Tibbert, 23, of Ilfracombe, admitted carrying out the attacks during a hearing at North Devon Magistrates' Court last month.
During a separate sentencing hearing on Friday, the court heard about the details of the brutal attacks.
Lyndsey Baker, for the prosecution, read out accounts of both attacks from the victim to the court.
She said: "On August 4 the first incident took place involving slapping the victim across the face, putting his hands around her throat and pushing his fingers into her head. He also put pressure on her pressure points and sat there staring into her eyes."
The second, more vicious attack, took place on August 6, and started with Tibbert grabbing the victim by the throat and pushing her to the floor, before pinning her to the ground by her shoulders.
Mrs Baker added: "He was biting her on the shoulder, grabbing her by the throat until she couldn't breathe.
"He pushed her against the wall and held here there by her ribcage. She said she could no longer feel the baby.
"She went past panic and thought 'this is it, I'm dead'."
The court also heard how Tibbert then told the victim that if she told her family "he would get his family to hurt them".
Despite the warning, the victim went on to contact her mother following the assault, but due to poor mobile phone signal ended up having to "scream down the phone to get help".
The victim, who was 26 weeks pregnant at the time, was taken to North Devon District Hospital following concerns for the wellbeing of her unborn child.
Following the assaults, the victim wrote a statement where which was read out by Mrs Baker in court on Friday. She said: "I'm so tired and exhausted, I'm just numb and in shock. I can't cry anymore. It's all so unreal and wrong. How did this end up happening to me? How did I end up in this position?"
Nigel Treasaden, for the defence, told the court that Tibbert's life was "somewhat of a pressure cooker" since he moved from Telford to Ilfracombe and which had boiled over and lead to the attack.
He said: "One minute he was there and next he was a different person."
Although all options were left open ahead of sentencing, including a possible jail term, magistrates imposed an 18-month supervision order with an education, training and employment activity requirement.
He was also ordered to undertake 200 hours of unpaid work and pay £100 in compensation and a victim surcharge of £60.
