MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO DRUNK DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN KIRKLEES COURT
A frightened woman was forced to barricade herself into her home when her 'nightmare' drunk partner, Paul Angus, tried to kick the front door in.The victim used her body weight to keep Angus out as he yelled at her: “Let me in you stupid s**g” on Christmas Eve last year.
Angus pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal damage when he appeared at Kirklees Magistrates' Court.
Prosecutor Vicky Trueman said that the couple had been together for three years and lived together on an on-off basis.
Mrs Trueman told magistrates: “She described the relationship as not being great.
He was verbally abusive towards her and told her that she was not worth anything.
‘He said that she could not do any better than him.
She described him as a nightmare when he's drunk and she said that she had called police out about him 12 times.” At the time of the offence the couple were not living together because social services were involved because of his behaviour, magistrates were told.
Then on December 24 the victim was at her Thornhill home with the children.
Shortly after midnight Angus turned up at their Smithy Parade address drunk.
Mrs Trueman said: “He knocked on the door shouting: 'I suggest you let me in stupid s**g.' She ignored him because he was drunk and he began to kick the door.
“It looked like he was going to come through it and she ran downstairs and put her body weight against it.
“Her nine-year-old son dropped the phone down to her and she rang police.” Angus, 37, shouted to his partner that he was going to ruin her life before walking away from the house.
Police caught him nearby and arrested him.
The door was so badly damaged that the victim was unable to open it.
Magistrates ordered a full report and adjourned sentencing until January 17.
