A TRIAL date has been set for a Whitehaven man who has denied an allegation of subjecting his partner to “controlling and coercive behaviour.”

Connor Cordin, 25, entered his not guilty plea to the charge when he appeared before a judge at Carlisle Crown Court. The judge in the case, Recorder Michael Blakey, said the case will get underway on February 10 next year.

The details of the allegation were spelled out in the charge.

The prosecution case is that he “repeatedly” subjected the woman to controlling behaviour between September 23 last year and August 26 this year.

The charge says this included: “Assaulting her on a weekly basis, threatening to kill her, isolating her from family and friends, physically intimidating her, taking away her phone so she could not contact anybody, and locking her out of her own home."

The defendant, of Borrowdale Road, Whitehaven, was formally in custody until the day the trial gets underway.