A woman was left with a two-inch laceration to her scalp after her husband attacked her with a kettle, a court heard.
It was one of a catalogue of injuries David Tweed inflicted on his wife, Linda, after he returned to his Stones Green home on May 3.
Annette Redgrave, prosecuting at Colchester Court on Friday, said Tweed threw his wife around the living room "like a rag doll".
Tweed, 55, also pulled her head down sharply by her hair, and cracked her head on a basin. He then used a kettle to hit her on the back of the head, and touched her neck with a knife.
Throwing her out of the door, he kicked Mrs Tweed, 48, punched her in the head and left her lying in the garden.
The court heard that she was unable to feel her legs and was shaking uncontrollably.
Mrs Tweed's injuries, treated in hospital, included a wound on her head that required glueing, a lump and cut to the forehead, a bruised and swollen nose and bruising to the upper body, arms, back and knee.
Tweed, of Stones Green Road, had admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm at a previous hearing. He was jailed for three months.
Trevor Linn, mitigating, said his client blamed alcohol for his domestic problems
Published Monday, June 30, 2003
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