A MAN has been jailed for assaulting his partner while “10 out of 10 on the drunk scale”.
Police were called to an address in Egremont on Saturday evening after the brother of 45-year-old Michael Shaun Fleming raised concerns his sibling “was armed with a knife and had assaulted his partner inside the flat”.
Police found Korrine Simpson and noted she had a red mark to her nose area. She claimed this was caused because she had “fallen over”, but her daughter was heard saying: “That’s not true. He assaulted you.“
Officers learned Fleming “suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, had been drinking alcohol and also possibly smoking cannabis”. Fleming was compliant when arrested, said he was in a “bad mood” after a car was seized earlier that day and revealed the incredible extent of his alcohol consumption to police.
“He had been drinking since 11 o’clock in the morning,” prosecutor Malcolm Isherwood told North and West Cumbria Magistrates’ Court today (THURS). “He said it had been around three two-litre bottles of cider and described himself as 10 out of 10 on the scale of drunkenness.”
Neither Miss Simpson nor his brother supported the prosecution. In court, Fleming, of Aldby Place, Cleator Moor, admitted assaulting Miss Simpson by beating.
Fleming was jailed for 14 weeks by District Judge John Temperley, who said: “This offence was committed in a domestic setting where she was clearly unable to get away from you.”
