PA MediaA TV auctioneer used violence in opposition to his spouse over a 10-year duration which started after he put her in a headlock right through a controversy, a court docket has heard.
A jury was once advised that Charles Hanson started the usage of “enough drive” in opposition to Rebecca Hanson to go away visual marks on some events from 2012, about two years once they married.
Mr Hanson, 46, seemed at Derby Crown Court docket on Monday charged with controlling or coercive behaviour, attack occasioning exact physically hurt, and attack via beating.
He denied all fees in opposition to him right through a court docket look in February 2024.
Mrs Hanson estimated that her husband can be violent to her “each six months or so” following the primary incident, the jury was once advised.
On one instance in 2015, it’s alleged that Mr Hanson, of Ashbourne Street in Mackworth, Derby, “gripped her so laborious that it left 3 fingertip bruises on her arm” which “actually harm and led to her to cry”.
Prosecutor Stephen Kemp stated Mrs Hanson was once “too scared to name the police”.
He added: “What she did do was once, she took {a photograph} in a replicate of the harm to her arm in a while after this incident, after which she took any other a couple of days later when the bruising had pop out.”
PA MediaIn line with the prosecution, the couple had a controversy in Might 2022 as a result of Mr Hanson didn’t just like the format in their kitchen, and he grabbed her “so forcefully that he left a pink mark on her shoulder”.
In a message in Might 2023, after the defendant allegedly driven her two times, Mrs Hanson stated to her husband: “I should not be frightened of my husband, they’re supposed to offer protection to you, no longer harm you.”
The court docket heard that during early 2023, Mrs Hanson “reached the level the place she felt she needed to go away” her husband, ahead of they each spoke to a wedding counsellor.
Mr Hanson was once arrested at his house in June 2023 and “denied having grabbed, poked or squeezed” his spouse, right through a police interview.
The fee of controlling or coercive behaviour in opposition to Mrs Hanson pertains to a duration between 2015 and 2023.
Mr Kemp advised the jury the offence didn’t come into drive till 29 December 2015.
He stated: “Till that date no matter behaviour came about previously, it will no longer be an offence of controlling or coercive behaviour.”
The trial, which is anticipated to last as long as two weeks, continues.
