A Frizington man who assaulted his mother before attacking her neighbour with a rock, leaving her dripping with blood, has been jailed.
Twenty-year-old Aaron Lee Hall received a criminal behaviour order in 2020 which banned him from entering Cleator Moor, save for certain exceptions.
But on May 7, Hall flouted the order by going to his mum’s home in Cleator Moor where she was expecting him and cooked some food.
After she lent him her mobile phone, Hall refused to return it. He yelled at her, using foul language and insults, before refusing to leave the house.
When she snatched the phone from him and dialled 999, Hall grabbed her wrists and twisted them up her back. He let go but then broke a kitchen table by kicking it before leaving the house.
Hall’s mum later said: “Throughout the whole incident I was terrified. I just never know what he is going to do next. He is evil. If he can do that to a woman, what else can he do?”
She fled to a neighbour’s home to get help but was pursued by Hall. He became physical as attempts were made by the neighbour to calm him down.
Hall initially left and began throwing rocks at the house but forced his way back into the home of the neighbour, who then felt a “hard blow” to the back of her head, Carlisle Crown Court heard.
The neighbour noticed blood was dripping from her head having been attacked by Hall, began to feel woozy and was given a tea towel to tend the wound while awaiting police.
An ambulance was also called and at hospital she underwent a CT scan and the wound was glued.
Hall had fled as police arrived. Following a chase he lunged at, and head-butted, one officer. Hall, of Coronation Drive, Frizington, later admitted three assaults, including one causing actual bodily harm and another on an emergency worker; criminal damage; and an order breach.
After hearing 16 of his 35 previous offences were for violence, Recorder Ian Unsworth QC sentenced Hall to 24 months in a young offenders’ institution.
