Man jailed for brutal attack on woman

Jamie Green: attacked his ex’s friend

A FATHER-OF-THREE in a jealous rage subjected an innocent woman to a brutal beating, Manchester Crown Court heard.

Jamie Green (37), was high on alcohol and cocaine when he punched Clare McMinn repeatedly in the head outside her home in Royton.

Afterwards he returned with others from a near-by pub and tried to force his way into her home while her children cowered in fear and hurled a wheelie bin through the front window.

Green, of Travis Court, Oldham, had gone berserk after Ms McMinn had told him his former girlfriend Georgina McKinlay was pregnant by another man.

Jailing him for two years, recorder Timothy Hannam said: “You saw red. You were screaming and ranting. You attacked this woman with anger and venom. You didn’t simply lash out but beat her repeatedly. Her face was literally smashed in.”

The court heard how Ms McMinn had gone with Green’s ex and another friend to a home in Shaw to make arrangements for a hen party. While they were out Green - who was subject to a court order prohibiting him from going anywhere near his former girlfriend’s home - went to her address in Roy Street and was furious to see their young daughter at a window.

Incensed at the thought there was nobody looking after her late at night, he banged on a neighbour’s door demanding he get a message to the girl’s mother to tell her to return immediately.

In fact the child had been in the care of Ms McKinlay’s teenage son., But when she arrived in a taxi with her friends, Green began harassing her.

Miss McMinn intervened as Ms McKinlay was pregnant. Green attacked Ms McMinn and punched her five to 10 times in the head, leaving her with swollen eyes, lumps and swellings to the sides and back of her head and pain in her ribs. More than six months later, she still suffered with the injuries from the brutal experience, the court heard.

Stella Massey, defending, said Green, who held down two jobs, accepted he had “lost it” and his behaviour had been wholly inappropriate.

Sentencing him, recorder Hannam said: “It was late at night, you were drunk and under the influence of drugs.

Green pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm for which he was jailed for 16 months, and the breach of a restraining order, for which he got an additional eight months.