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Dec
Man accused of strangling partner's mother after she found them in bed in Boroughbridge
A man allegedly strangled his partner’s mother after she found the couple in bed together, a court heard.
Joseph King, 32, leapt out of bed, grabbed the woman by the throat and squeezed so tight she was struggling to breathe, a jury at York Crown Court was told.
King, formerly of Starbeck and Boroughbridge, appeared for the first day of his trial yesterday (December 10) when barrister Oliver Connor opened the case for the prosecution.
He said the named victim knew that her daughter had been seeing Mr King “for a few weeks” and didn’t approve of the relationship.
It was at their home in Boroughbridge on January 14 last year when she found the couple in bed together in her daughter’s room and confronted them, whereupon they “leapt out of bed and became abusive towards her”.
Her daughter was shouting at her mother who “shouted back”, said Mr Connor.
“(The alleged victim) grabbed a laptop or tablet from the bed and threw it onto the landing, telling (Mr King) to get out of her daughter’s room,” he added.
Spitting claim
She and her daughter continued to argue as Mr King began pushing the woman out of the bedroom. Her daughter then punched and spat at her mother, said the prosecutor.
Mr King then “took hold of (the alleged victim) by the throat and pinned her to the floor” of the landing outside the bedroom.
His grip was so tight that the woman was struggling to breathe as her daughter punched her, added Mr Connor.
Mr King then let go of the woman and went back inside the bedroom with his partner.
The alleged victim tried to follow them in, but her daughter pushed her away. When she told Mr King to get out, he told her that “she owed him money” but he eventually left the house.
The injured woman then went to her friend’s house where police and an ambulance were called.
Mr Connor told the jury that the woman’s daughter had already admitted assaulting her mother, causing actual bodily harm.
Mr King, lately of Cardigan Road, Headingley, Leeds, was charged with intentional strangulation but denied the allegation.
The trial continues.
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