Paul Harvey's mum lost an estimated three-quarters of a litre of blood after she was hit by a glass jar he threw at his sister
A mother lost an estimated three quarters of a litre of blood after she was hit by an ornament thrown by her teenage son.
Young offender Paul Harvey, 18, flung a glass jar at his sister during an argument, Teesside Crown Court heard.
When their mum stood up between them, she was struck by the flying ornament by accident.
Blood poured from the resulting cut to her forehead, said prosecutor Paul Lee today.
Harvey’s father called police reporting the violence at 3.45pm on April 25.
Officers arrived at the scene to find the mother distressed, rocking backwards and forwards, holding a towel to her head, her jeans soaked in blood.
Paramedics estimated she’d lost three quarters of a pint of blood, added Mr Lee.
He said the wound fortunately needed “relatively minor treatment” at hospital.
Harvey fled but was arrested later the same day,
He told police he picked up and flung a glass jar during a row with his sister, it bounced off her shoulder and hit his mother.
His mother said it was an accident and she didn’t want her son’s prosecution to go ahead.
Harvey, of Parliament Road, Gresham, Middlesbrough, admitted unlawful wounding.
The assault happened a week after he appeared in court and was given a community order.
His 20 previous offences since the age of 13 included robbery and assault in 2010, when he was 14.
At that time, a judge branded him and his co-accused “bully boys” for their crimes, giving him a youth rehabilitation order as dictated by legislation.
Duncan McReddie, defending, said: “He would wish to apologise both to his mother and to the court.
“There was no intention to harm his mother. She described it as an accident.
“He’s supported today by his father. There is a reconciliation in the family.
“His father’s an ex-serviceman. He recognises Paul needs to develop a sense of self-discipline and application.
“There is clearly a significant way to go in the process of maturation.”
He said Harvey showed remorse for his “reckless act”, did unpaid work, kept appointments and complied with supervision under the community order.
Judge Simon Bourne-Arton QC, the Recorder of Middlesbrough, told the teenager: “It’s clear to me that you’re a young man with a very quick temper.
“You demonstrated that on this occasion.
“For no real reason, no reason in reality, you lost your temper in an argument with your sister, you picked up an ornament and you threw it.
“A completely innocent person was seriously injured. That innocent person happened to be your mother.
“The injury could well have been considerably worse than it was, but it was a bad injury.
“That I hope brings home to you what can happen if you behave as you did.
“It is very much to your credit that you admitted this matter from the word go.
“Not only that, you demonstrated your remorse, how sorry you were to your mother for causing the injury.”
And he said Harvey buckled down to his court order since the “impulse” assault.
He did not lock Harvey up, bearing in mind that the victim did not want to see him sent away.
He passed a six-month custodial sentence suspended for 18 months with 120 hours’ unpaid work and a three-month curfew between 9pm and 7am.
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