WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Jordan Herring was branded ‘dangerous’ by a judge after he shoved his girlfriend out of a block of flats before she plunged 40ft to the ground
A man who pushed his 18-year-old partner out of a tower block window and saw her plunge 40ft to the ground laughed as he was jailed.
Jordan Herring, 22, was branded “dangerous” by the judge who slammed the man for his lack of remorse more than three years after the evil incident. Herring was 19 when he pushed partner Bobbie Goodman, then 18, out of Merton House in Solihull, West Midlands, in November 2022.
Herring’s attack came after a row fuelled by cannabis and his paranoid accusations of cheating. Chilling CCTV footage caught the moment Ms Goodman hit the ground after she was shoved out of the flat.
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The woman thankfully landed on a spot of grass, narrowly missing a concrete footpath. Emergency services were not called for Ms Goodman until around an hour after the fall, and she was eventually airlifted to hospital with a collapsed lung and fractures to her pelvis and ribs.
The young woman suffered life-changing injuries and was left traumatised, Birmingham Crown Court heard. The man had claimed the victims jumped out of the window but he was later arrested by police and charged.
Herring was found guilty of unlawful wounding but was cleared of more serious offences of attempted murder and inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent, on Friday. He was sentenced to five years custody in total with an extended one-year licence, on Monday, reports BirminghamLive.
The man was also convicted of controlling and coercive behaviour against Ms Goodman at an earlier trial. Herring isolated Ms Goodman from her family, locked her in a bedroom, rifled through her phone and assaulted her in the build up to the horror tower block incident.
Herring, who has since become a father, held up five fingers on his hand as he turned and acknowledged his new partner and grandmother in the public gallery, at his sentencing. Herring also threw his head back and let out a laugh in apparent disbelief as Judge Simon Drew criticised his behaviour since the incident.
The judge said Herring effectively used the tower block as a “highly dangerous weapon”, saying: “I’m satisfied, I regret to say, you do represent a risk. I’m not saying you will offend but as I am sure you understand I have a public duty. You still deny pushing Bobbie.
“Your pre-sentence report (PSR) makes clear you minimise your own behaviour within the controlling and coercive offending and you have, even now, limited insight into really what’s taken place and why you offend. In your PSR there is minimal remorse and a pattern of externalising blame.”
Judge Drew continued: “It is also clear you are still taking drugs in prison. The conclusion of the author of the PSR is your risk of serious harm within the community is assessed as very high, I agree. You are a dangerous offender and it is necessary to impose an extended sentence.”
The thug, from Solihull, was sentenced to 12 months for coercive and controlling behaviour and will have to serve half of that before commencing the start of his four-year custodial term for unlawful wounding, of which he will have to serve two thirds before release on extended licence. Herring had previously been sentenced to detention for stabbing someone outside a pub while aged 16, in April 2020, an incident in which he was stabbed himself.
He started seeing Ms Goodman in February 2022 and within a few months she moved into Herring’s grandmother’s home with him. But he soon became controlling towards her amid cheating accusations which went both ways and his use of cannabis made his paranoia worse.
Later that year Herring turned violent and inflicted bruises to Ms Goodman’s eyes and neck. In an effort to hide her from her family, who had become increasingly concerned, he went on the run with her – first staying in a pal’s factory then going to his mother Kerrie-Anne Grogan’s flat. The judge stated the latter was an act of particular ‘desperation’ given Herring’s troubled history with her.
On November 12, 2022 Herring and Ms Goodman smoked cannabis and rowed at the flat before he forced her up to the window, threatened to kill her and ultimately pushed her out. The next thing she remembered was waking up in hospital where she required multiple surgeries.
In a heartbreaking statement she said: “I am extremely lucky to be alive and to be honest I have no idea how I have survived what happened to me.” Ms Goodman added: “Looking back on the relationship with Jordan I now realise I was constantly controlled and not allowed to do the things I should have been allowed to do as a young woman. I will never let that happen again. Not only did the relationship ruin my life it caused problems with my family which should never have happened.”
