A drunken dad who forced his partner's head into bath water as she washed their young children has dodged jail. Richard Mellor had been boozing all day when he launched the unprovoked attack at roughly 8pm on April 25 last year.
The family-of-four had visited Burslem Cricket Club where the 40-year-old had been downing shandy and continued drinking after returning home, Stoke-on-Trent Live reports.
He then went into the bathroom where he shoved his girlfriend against the wall, before pushing her head under the water as his children watched on in terror.
Mellor, of Birchfield Road, Abbey Hulton, appeared before Stoke-on-Trent Court where he avoided prison for the assault. Prosecutor Dean Easthope said: “At around 2pm the complainant, defendant and children went to Burslem Cricket Club.
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