A 44-year-old Norwich man with a long history of violence was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for punching, stabbing, strangling and raping his ex-girlfriend in May 2014 at her Boswell Avenue apartment.

Raymond Holloway had pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual assault.

He will be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, and Judge Hillary B. Strackbein told him that, based on his history and the violence of the offense, she expects he will serve every day of his decade-long sentence.

She issued a permanent order prohibiting him from contact with the victim and her family.

Hollaway had served five years in prison for gouging out a man's eye with his finger during a robbery in New London in 2004 and has additional assault convictions.

In the sexual assault case, police said that Holloway, in a jealous rage, attacked his ex-girlfriend after a man she was interested in stopped by her apartment.

The woman told police Holloway came at her with a knife, placed it on the side of her neck and threatened to cut her throat.

She said Holloway repeatedly punched her in the face, gripped her neck with his hand to the point where she was having trouble breathing and ordered her to take her clothes off. She said he then raped her.

The victim's daughter arrived at the house, heard her mother yelling for help and pulled out an air conditioner to get into the house.

She said Holloway was holding a knife to her mother's chest, so she grabbed a pan from the kitchen and hit him in the head. Both women escaped the house when a neighbor kicked in the door.

"This was a particularly violent and repugnant offense," said prosecutor Larry J. Tytla.

In photos of the victim, "It looks like she was beaten to a pulp," he said.

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