A Watford man who beat his partner with a belt and forced her to walk home from a restaurant without shoes is wanted on recall to prison.

Hertfordshire Police released an appeal yesterday, March 11, for the public’s help tracing Billy Smith, 25, who was jailed in November 2022 for two years and four months’ and given an indefinite restraining order.

His last known address was in Watford, but he has also lived in Milton Keynes.

Watford Observer: Billy Smith was jailed for two years and four months in 2022.Billy Smith was jailed for two years and four months in 2022. (Image: Hertfordshire Police)

Any information on his whereabouts can be reported to police online at herts.police.uk/report or on 101 with reference number: 41/10165/24.

On one occasion in 2021, he beat his victim to the ground with a belt outside the Tranquil Turtle restaurant and forced her to walk home without shoes while threatening violence.

This left the victim fearing for her life after they had been together for around six months.

After she ended their relationship, Smith bombarded her with abuse and threats. He was arrested on July 27, 2022, during which he punched a female officer causing a nosebleed.

He pleaded guilty to controlling and coercive behaviour, assaulting an emergency worker and breaching a restraining order with a different victim.