Published date: 22 December 2016 |
A HOMELESS man has been jailed for a violent attack on his mother.
Jamie Cameron Cuffin, 25, was lying outside his mother’s home in Idwal, Acrefair, at about 2.10pm on December 16.
Cuffin was “talking in riddles” and lying by Andrea Cuffin’s car when she came out to check on him.
He asked “who is Jamie?” when she spoke to him and said “I’m not Jamie” .
Mrs Cuffin told him he was Jamie before he asked: “would Jamie hit a woman?”. She said “no”.
Rhian Jackson, prosecuting at Wrexham Magistrates Court yesterday, said Cuffin then punched his mother in the face with full force, knocking her back against her car.
Cuffin, whose mother said in a statement he had drugs and alcohol problems, was in a “state of trance” again and replied “I’m not Jamie” when asked why he hit her.
Cuffin heard shouts from neighbours asking what was going on and said: “It's okay. She's my mum.”
Mrs Cuffin started to walk back to her home but her son followed while staring and glaring at her and repeatedly punched her head.
She leaned against a fence and tried to cover her head during the attack.
A neighbour who had phoned Mrs Cuffin to say her son was outside then came out, and Jamie Cuffin walked away. The victim’s injuries included a black eye, cut lip and a swollen face, with her spectacles broken in the attack.
Jamie Cuffin told police he had never got on with his mother but would not comment further.
His mother added in her statement that her son had never done anything like this before.
It was a “vicious and unprovoked assault” and Mrs Cuffin, who had tried to help her son many times, could not describe how the attack made her feel.
The defendant had for convictions for seven offences , which included harassing a former partner and twice breaching a restraining order.
Jamie Cuffin was jailed for 60 days on August 24 for breaching a restraining order and breaching the terms of a suspended sentence.
He pleaded guilty at the hearing to assault by beating.
Melissa Griffiths, defending, said the facts of the offence were “somewhat bizarre”. She added Cuffin would perhaps benefit from a full psychological assessment to see if there were any underlying mental disorders.
She said Cuffin’s offending related to his mental health issues as well as accommodation and money problems he had faced after a relationship break-up last year.
After his release from jail he found accommodation but could not pay his rent when his benefits were stopped. He had since been sofa surfing or sleeping on the streets.
He had told Miss Griffiths he had never been particularly good, but did not elaborate.
Events surrounding the attack were “something of a blur” to him, but he accepted the accounts of his mother and the witness.
Magistrates’ chairman Albert Hughes jailed Cuffin for 16 weeks and told him to pay a £115 surcharge. A restraining order was imposed prohibiting Cuffin entering Idwal in Acrefair and from having any contact with his mother
http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/170479/man-punched-his-mother-in-vicious-and-unprovoked-assault-in-acrefair.aspx
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