Deeside,North Wales - Drink driver assaulted former partner and family members

Published date: 29 December 2015 | 

Published by: Staff reporter
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A DEESIDE man has admitted that while drunk he assaulted his former partner, her mother and her brother on Christmas Day.

Barry Dodd, 57, also threatened to kill them, a court was told yesterday.

He was stopped by police as he drove away from their house and was found to be more than three times the drink drive limit.

Dodd, an Airbus fitter, of Hampton Avenue in Pentre, Queensferry, who had no previous convictions, admitted assaulting his former partner Dawn Marie Wilcock, her mother Marcella Wilcock, 74 and her brother Edward. He also admitted driving his Land Rover on Christmas Day with 113 microgrammes of alcohol in his breath compared to the legal limit of 35.

Sentence was adjourned pending a pre-sentence report.

Nicola Wyn Williams, prosecuting, said that police received a call from a house in Ash Lane in Mancot, at 4.30 p.m. on Christmas Day.

Dawn Wilcock could be heard screaming ‘get off me’ and the defendant could be heard shouting that he would kill everyone in the house.

The couple had been in a 15 year relationship, had a son aged seven, but she left because of alleged violence in the relationship.

He went to her home on Christmas Day but in the afternoon was drunk and became angry.

The defendant was shouting ‘I will kill each and every one of you before I leave’.

He assaulted his former partner, he slapped a door in the face of her mother causing a wrist injury, and he threw his former partner’s brother to the floor.

The defendant left but returned and threw rocks at the window.

Police arrived as he was driving off in his Land Rover and were able to block his way and he was arrested.

The brother told police that the defendant had said ‘I will burn the house down’ and ‘will kill the lot of you’ during the incident.

Arrested and interviewed, he said that he was drunk and could not remember what had happened.

He had drunk to excess that day he said, and claimed the incident with the door was an accident.

Gary Harvey, defending, said that his client had a responsible job at Airbus but had lost his mother, there was illness in the family, and he had become depressed.

He accepted that he had been drinking to excess and hoped that he would be able to get the able he needed.

Mr Garvey said: “He knows what happened on Christmas Day was wholly unacceptable.”

Dodd addressed the magistrates from the dock and said: “I really want to stop drinking. I realise it is ruining my life. I am really sorry, embarrassed and ashamed.”

He said he had a drink problem, was anxious to get over it and aid his drink problem had got worse since his partner left.

Magistrates said that his behaviour of Christmas Day was not impressive. He was bailed on condition he lives at his home, he is not to go to Ash Lane in Mancot, he is not to contact prosecution witnesses, and he is not to consume alcohol on alcohol premises.

An interim driving ban was imposed.

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