Corby man stamped on his ex partner and hit her with a chair while she cowered on the floor

A Corby man drunkenly assaulted his former partner in a late-night attack.

Stuart McCreadie, 41, returned from a night out to his home in Snatchill Close on August 15 this year before laying into his former partner.

The defendant appeared at Northampton Magistrates' Court yesterday (Wednesday, October 28) to deny two assault charges.

Giving evidence, his former partner said that he had come home at about 2am and had begun speaking loudly on the phone after becoming angry over an altercation he had with a man earlier that evening. She went downstairs to ask him to be quiet.

She said: "He was really shouting and screaming. I saw two big knives and a big bar."

The victim returned upstairs where a video-call was made to the home of her adult daughter. When McCreadie heard the sound of the phone he went upstairs.

The victim said: "He started kicking me on the floor. He stamped on me a few times while I was sitting on the floor.

"I was screaming and he just carried on.

"Then he picked up a little wooden chair and hit me with it."

The court was shown images of the victim's bruises to her head and face. Her adult daughters, who had heard the assault on the video-call, rushed to the scene.

Giving evidence, one of her daughters said: "My mum came on the call. She sounded distressed.

"She said things weren't too good and that things had gone-off.

"I went to the house and was ringing and ringing the doorbell.

"(McCreadie) came out quite aggressively. He came out and he pushed me to the floor."

The woman hit her head on the concrete floor. Then McCreadie went back into the house to launch a second attack on his former partner, punching her 'repeatedly' on the stairs.

Giving evidence, McCreadie pulled up his jumper from the witness box to show injuries he said he received during the attack. He said that he was the victim and that his former partner was actually the one who had initiated the incident.

"She came into the living room and started punching me," he said.

He said that he had thought the person ringing the doorvell was the man he had the earlier altercation with and he hadn't pushed the victim when he burst out of the house, but that she had fallen backward of her own accord.

The court was also told that while on police bail for the two assaults, McCreadie had been found in possession of a hammer in a public place and had sent an malicious text message to one of the victims. He had been remanded in custody following those two incidents in September, from where he appeared yesterday.

Magistrates did not believe McCreadie's account. Finding him guilty of the two assaults, chair of the bench Dominic Goble said: "We find that you did kick, stamp on and punch the victim.

"You also repeatedly punched her as she lay on the stairs."

The court also found that McCreadie 'recklessly' assaulted the second victim.

Denying him bail, the bench ordered a pre-sentence report to be carried out before a sentencing hearing in three weeks.