Mum 'saw red', called man a 'f*****g horrible old b*****d'... then ended up in court
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA mum hit a man on the head with a riding crop after they got into a row over the use of a bridle path. Leanne Wright, 44, was riding her horse with her 10-year-old daughter when she went to use a bridle path on the Back O’ Th’ Hill farm in Tameside on May 24 last year.
An argument followed with the landowner. Wright called him a ‘f*****g horrible old b*****d’. The man told her she was trespassing and told her to go back.
Wright then got off her horse before ‘seeing red’, Minshull Street Crown Court heard. Try MEN Premium now with our amazing New Year offer...
just click here to give it a go. Wright punched the man in the face before hitting him on the top of his head with her riding crop. “You used what you had as a weapon to deliberately harm him,” judge Recorder Sandra Pope told her.
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