A roofer “lost it” when he came home and found an 18-year-old bricklayer in bed with his ex-partner.
Craig Downward, 40, had just split up with his former girlfriend Kirsty Anne Davies several hours before he found her with Luke Anthony Briggs.
Mr Briggs - who had been invited to an 18th birthday at the local British Legion Club by Miss Davies, went home with her and had sex before falling alseep.
He woke up to find himself being attacked.
Downward, of Seventh Avenue in Llay, Wrexham, punched and kicked Mr Briggs on the forehead, leaving him with a broken nose and other injuries.
Downward shouted “Is this what it’s come to, you sleeping with my girlfriend?” as he attacked Mr Briggs, and then warned him he would have someone “get him” if he told anyone about the assault.
At Mold crown court, defending barrister Philip Tully said Downward was remorseful and had pleaded guilty, but said it was important to remember that had Miss Davies not let them into his own flat with a spare key he did not know she had, then it would not have occurred.
They couple had split up that day, the split was still raw, he had been out with friends, he returned home not expecting anyone to be there but found them in his bed together.
“On their own admission they had engaged in sexual intercourse in his bed,” Mr Tully said, adding: “If these two people had not engaged in what they were engaged in, in his bed, this incident would never have occurred. He accepts what he did was wrong but there is a high level of personal mitigation.”
The judge, Recorder Simon Mills, told Downward: “You stand to be sentenced for an assault on a man that you caught in bed with your girlfriend.
“You came home to find Mr Briggs in bed in circumstances which made it obvious what had been going on.
“You lost your temper and punched Mr Briggs, giving him no opportunity whatsoever to defending himself because he was asleep.”
He added: “You carried on punching him and also kicked him to the forehead before finally letting him go.
“I accept that these were difficult circumstances and it would make any person angry to come home to discover what you discovered. I accept too that the general circumstances were distressing because you split up with her that day.
“But your behaviour was seriously over the top.”
Recorder Mills said he had come to court expecting to have to send Downward to jail, but on the basis of his mitigation he gave him a nine-month suspended sentence.
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