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A mum who attacked her drunken partner after a funeral has been spared jail.
Mother-of-three Roberta Suddick and her partner had taken cocaine and alcohol at the wake before they returned home to her children.
They argued because he had stayed back for more drink, and she threw plates and a glass at him cutting him above his right eye.
They grappled on the floor, and her daughter phoned Suddick’s stepfather who escorted her and the children from the house in Hemlington.
Suddick told police that she threw a plate at her partner because he punched her.
Prosecutor Emma Atkinson told Teesside Crown Court that the 33-year-old said she felt remorse and shocked by what she had done, and that the children had heard the incident on October 28.
Suddick said that on the way out she kicked him in the head as a reaction to him grabbing her. He was treated at hospital but he refused to have stitches.
Miss Atkinson said that when Suddick was arrested she was intoxicated but she had several cuts to her hands, an injury to her forehead and bruises on her arms.
The next day she had medical treatment because she had glass in her foot.
She had no previous convictions but a caution in 2008.
Graham Brown, defending, said that it was one of the few cases where he wondered whether the defendant should be before the court.
He added: “It was a case where the complainant did not want to be the complainant.
“The situation could have been resolved in the beginning if he had left but he did not. Various things were thrown partly out of frustration and partly out of anger.”
He said that Suddick was in receipt of state benefits and the three children were doing well at school.
The judge told Suddick that it was sad to see her at crown court .
Judge Howard Crowson said: “You were drunk and he was perhaps more drunk than you, and an argument started up and I know you regret that the children were in the house.
“During that argument you threw some plates and a glass which hit him. and it caused an injury sometimes seen in the boxing ring.
“It was not a very significant injury. He did not wish to make a complaint but it is to your credit that you have pleaded guilty.
“You are a mother who has got three children who are doing well.”
Suddick, of Mardale, Hemlington, was given a 12 month community order with supervision and £100 Victim surcharge after she pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
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