Woman hit out at lover during taxi journey

AWOMAN assaulted her lover in a taxi. Laura Lee Margaret Robinson, 36, smacked him on the side of the head during the journey, magistrates were told.

The court heard that the victim, who has a prosthetic eye, lived in fear of Robinson turning up at his flat drunk and even turned the lights off to pretend he wasn’t home.

At Macclesfield magistrates’ court, Robinson, of Hurdsfield Road, Macclesfield, admitted assault by beating.

She was sentenced to a community order with rehabilitation activity requirement for 20 days.

Debbie Byrne, prosecuting, said the victim and the defendant had been in a difficult relationship for several years.

She said: “He describes the defendant as an alcoholic.

“He said when she drinks she comes to his flat and then doesn’t leave.

“On May 24 he said she came over to give him his birthday present, which was alcohol.

“They drank but he claims it became hard to get her to go.

“The next day he let her stay at the flat and went to work.

“When he returned in the evening he called a taxi.

“He planned to go to her house then jump back in the taxi and go home. “During the ride she began shouting at him and he describes her as very drunk.

“She hit him in the side of the head as he sat in the front beside the taxi driver, who witnesses the assault.

“The complainant says he feels sorry for the defendant and that she needs help.”

In a victim impact statement read out in court the man said he lived in ‘fear’ of Robinson turning up drunk.

He said: “I fear that she will call the telephone at night and that she will turn up at the flat drunk.

“I sit in the dark to pretend I am not there so she won’t come round.

“This has had a detrimental impact on my social life.”

Jenny Fields, defending, said: “When they are together unpleasant things happen.

“It was drink that made her do this.”

‘I fear that she will call the telephone at night and that she will turn up at the flat drunk’