A husband and wife who are banned from seeing each other had a brief reconciliation in court as she was sentenced for attacking him with a mop.
Kerry Louise Jessop drunkenly beat her husband Andrew around the head after arguing in a house she was prohibited from visiting by an Anti-social behaviour order.
Teesside Crown Court heard how the couple have been together for 14 years and married for seven. Both are alcoholics the court heard, and Mr Jessop described their relationship as “very violent”.
As part of her anti-social behaviour order (asbo), issued in August last year, Mrs Jessop was banned from contacting him while he was also subject to a “mirror” asbo.
But on November 28, Mr Jessop called police after being attacked by his wife at his grandfather’s house on Ammerston Road, Gresham, Middlesbrough.
Prosecuting Emma Atkinson said Mrs Jessop had turned up at the address and a “heated argument” ensued.
“He feared he was going to be assaulted so he went into the bathroom,” she said.
“When he opened the door she struck him on the head with a mop.”
He hid in the bathroom again but each time he tried to escape, Mrs Jessop hit him with the mop.
“He tried to get past her but she wouldn’t let him. She pushed him several times which caused him to fall.”
When she finally left him alone, police were called and Mrs Jessop was arrested on Ammerston Road.
Mr Jessop, who attended court to watch his wife being sentenced, told police he had a cut to his head which required stitches.
Defending, Rachel Dyson, told the court the couple had a relationship founded on drug use and alcoholism.
“This has been a longstanding relationship which in essence has not been beneficial to either part,” she said.
“It has got to the point where not only does Mrs Jessop have an anti-social behaviour order preventing her from contacting him but he has a mirror order.”
The court heard Mrs Jessop had lost custody of her children due to her abuse of alcohol.
The 34-year-old, of Alverton Green, Thorntree, Middlesbrough, pleaded guilty to assault and breaching an asbo in the November 28 incident.
The Judge, Recorder James Brown told her: “You appear to have an overwhelming addiction to alcohol and share that with your husband.
“The consequences are that both of you have engaged in anti-social behaviour.
“Unless you address your problems with alcohol you will keep coming back here and the sentences will keep getting longer and longer.”
He gave her a 15-month jail sentence suspended for 24 months with supervision and alcohol treatment requirements.
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