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Jilted husband beat double amputee he caught in bed with his wife

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Jilted husband beat double amputee war hero he caught in bed with his wife

Court hears Harry Pattison snapped when he found Afghanistan veteran Tom Lawlor enjoying a one-night stand with wife Gemma

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Harry Pattison arrives at Scarborough Magistrates Court to be sentenced for assault Photo: Ben Lack

By Agency
4:49PM GMT 09 Jan 2015

A jilted husband has been given a suspended jail sentence over a revenge attack on a defenceless double amputee war hero he caught in bed with his wife.

Florist Harry Pattison snapped when he found Afghanistan veteran Tom Lawlor enjoying a one-night stand with wife Gemma only five weeks after they split up.

He punched Mr Lawlor in the head as he lay on the marital bed after sneaking into the former marital home by the back door, a court heard.

Mr Lawlor had both his legs blown off by a Taliban bomb while on foot patrol in Basharan, Helmand Province, when he was 19.

The former infantry private, now 24, met Gemma Pattison back in his home town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, the same evening as the attack took place.

The 26-year-old waitress was on a drunken night out with friends and invited the ex-soldier - who is a local hero - back to her place.

They both headed up to her loft attic room, leaving his prosthetic limbs downstairs, Scarborough magistrates heard.

Prosecutor Kathryn Reeve said Pattison, 28, had also been out drinking with friends when he called his estranged wife asking to see their dog.

The back door had been left unlocked and about 4.30am Pattison let himself in. Mrs Pattison heard the door go and jumped out of bed naked.

Miss Reeve continued: "She came across the defendant at the bottom of the stairs.

"He was very upset she has got another male at the address only a few weeks after splitting up after a long-term relationship."

Pattison found Mr Lawlor in bed and started punching him, as the ex-soldier yelled he had left his legs down stairs.

"He has prosthetics having lost both his legs while serving as a soldier in Afghanistan," Miss Reeve added.

"Gemma jumped on top of the defendant and tried to intervene to defend Mr Lawlor. She was pushed and dragged about and pushed downstairs."

Pattison smashed the mirror in the bedroom. The disturbance continued in the downstairs where Pattison smashed up a fish tank, flooding the living room.

Mrs Pattison, who had already suffered friction burns and bruises in the fall downstairs, had her ankle cut by the flying glass.

Tom suffered redness and soreness to the head from the blows.

Pattison, who lives in Scarborough, in the same street as his wife, admitted two offences of assault by beating and one of criminal damage last December.

Presiding Magistrates Carl Harwood said: "These offences are so serious that custody is the only suitable option.

"This was a serious incident of domestic violence. Mr Lawlor was clearly unable to defend himself.

"The incident occurred when you entered the victim's home address uninvited in the early hours of the morning."

Pattison was given a three month jail sentence suspended for a year, a three month curfew, 24-month restraining order and a £1,156 legal bill.

This included £85 court costs, £80 surcharge, £691 compensation to the landlord for the criminal damage, £100 compensation to Gemma Pattison and £200 to Mr Lawlor.

The court heard the couple had been together five years but married only a year before Gemma chucked him out.

Nick Tubbs, defending, said Mrs Pattison, who became sole tenant of the house after the split, was now moving out.

He told the Bench: "Part of the problem with this case was although he had moved out of the marital home he has moved to the family home only a few yards down the street.

"He has enormous regret at what's happened. He has learned a very valuable lesson and is unlikely to be before you again."

Mr Lawlor was a private in the Second Battalion Yorkshire Regiment The Green Howards when he was injured in September.2009.

He has said: "It was just a domestic incident I got caught in and that was all."


 
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