A SOUTHAMPTON man will spend Christmas and the new year behind bars after admitting three charges of violence.

Klayton Rose, 35, of Hinkler Road, pleaded guilty at the city crown court to causing actual bodily harm to his partner Tracy Carter. He further admitted assaulting mother and daughter Kim Green and Kay Husbands.

The violence is said to have flared in the foyer of a block of flats in Canberra Towers, Weston.

Rose will be sentenced in February.