A “manipulative” church pastor who left his wife battered and bleeding from a violent assault has been jailed. Joshua Jimbel, who until his arrest preached daily via his social media accounts to followers of the Heavenly Jerusalem Assembly, launched his brutal attack on his spouse after locking her in their bedroom at their Ramsgate home. Canterbury Crown Court heard he repeatedly punched her to the head, pulled her hair and tried to strangle her. But as soon as she managed to escape, she bravely grabbed her phone to film herself screaming for help as blood oozed from her wound. The distressin…
