CLARE MAN FOUND GUILTY OF HOLDING A WOMEN PRISONER. ASSAULT BY BEATING AND USING COERCIVE AND CONTROLLING BEHAVIOUR
A Clare man found guilty of holding a woman prisoner in a room at his brother’s vicarage during a row after has been cleared of making threats with a weapon.Before Ipswich Crown Court on Wednesday was 41-year-old Benjamin Woodrow of High Street, Clare.
He previously denied non-fatal strangulation, false imprisonment, two offences of assault by beating, using coercive and controlling behaviour and threatening with a weapon.
He was convicted by majority verdicts of an offence of assault by beating and using controlling or coercive behaviour and guilty by majority verdict of false imprisonment.
On Wednesday a jury found him not guilty of threatening with a weapon.
He was previously found not guilty of non-fatal strangulation and an offence of assault by beating.
Giving evidence during his trial, Woodrow admitted having a “very loud” argument with the woman but denied locking her in his bedroom at the vicarage in High Street, Clare, giving her a black eye, holding a kitchen knife to her throat and making her drink his urine.
