A Pembroke man who repeatedly punched his ex-girlfriend in the face after she found him sleeping in her bed was jailed for two years yesterday.Jamal Bascome, 27, pleaded guilty in December to assaulting Merviena Simons in her home in Sandys.Magistrates’ Court heard that Ms Simons was out with friends on December 21 when she saw Bascome.Concerned that he was going to follow her home, she spent the night at a friend’s.She returned home shortly after 5.30pm the next day and discovered Bascome asleep in her bed. She shouted at him and woke him up.Bascome told her to stop shouting and put his hand over her mouth. When she continued to shout he slapped her.A fight broke out, with Bascome repeatedly punching Ms Simons in the face as she continued to shout for help.A neighbour heard the altercation and kicked in the front door to break up the fight.Bascome had left the home by the time police arrived.Ms Simons suffered a black eye in the brawl and cuts to her face.Yesterday duty consul Auralee Cassidy said Bascome regretted the physical and emotional harm he caused Ms Simons and was willing to reimburse her for costs. Bascome is currently unemployed.Ms Cassidy said he would work for the Hustle Truck if released, to raise the cash to repay Ms Simons.Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner said the defendant had earlier told court services he didn’t want to be on probation.“It doesn’t make sense telling me now that a reckoning has come and he is interested,” Mr Warner said.He pointed out Bascome’s prior convictions for violence against women, particularly when under the influence of alcohol.And he said that Bascome was given a six-month sentence, suspended for two years, after he was convicted of prowling outside a woman’s house in 2011.On that occasion, Bascome was heavily intoxicated.He then said he was only trying to spend the night at a friend’s house the friend had moved from the home.Mr Warner said: “It seems that when he drinks he has this thing of beating on women and prowling around their houses.“It’s clear that he has an issue with substance abuse and/or other reasons for behaving this way.”Mr Warner sentenced Bascome to 18 months in prison, and activated the suspended sentence. He ordered that they run consecutively.