Mum headbutted by son in ‘winning lottery ticket’ row
AMAN attacked his own mum and threatened her with a kitchen knife in front of his elderly grandma after accusing her of hiding a winning lottery ticket.
Graeme Mackay hit his mum with a broom and headbutted her in her own home, before continuing the attack by holding a knife to her throat at his grandma’s house.
In a statement read out at Cardiff Crown Court, Caroline Mackay said: “It is like a nightmare to think your own son who you brought up could do anything like this.”
The court heard the first part of the attack happened at her home in
Barry on June 16.
Alison O’Shea, prosecuting, said Ms Mackay described her son as “agitated and upset” the evening before the incident.
She told the court he was acting in a “paranoid manner” and accused his mother of putting up surveillance cameras in the flat.
Prosecutors said he made some accusations and threatened: “I will smash your face in.”
The court heard Mackay got a broom and started “swinging it wildly” at his mother as she told him to calm down.
Ms O’Shea said: “He grabbed her around the neck and squeezed for a long time.”
Ms Mackay told her son she needed to go and see her mother, who was expecting her. The defendant drove her from Barry to Cardiff to his grandma’s home.
Prosecutors said he became agitated again and told his grandmother his mother was a “bitch”, then accused her of hiding a winning lottery ticket.
The court heard he was being “irrational” and claimed he had won £100,000.
Ms O’Shea said: “He headbutted his mother.”
Prosecutors said his grandmother was wearing an emergency pendant and the police were called.
Mackay, 32, from Cardiff Road in Barry, admitted two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Andrew Kendall, defending, told the court Mackay was diagnosed with anxiety and depression and going through a change of medication at the time of the offending.
Judge David Wynn Morgan jailed him for three years.