Brutal attack heard on phone

A VICIOUS attack by a father on his former partner, was heard over the phone by a shocked emergency services operator, a court was told.

Kyle Livesey (23) who had been having difficulty getting access to his 18-month-old son, broke into their flat on Oldham’s Holts estate and beat her up, while the youngster was in the house.

Livesey, who had had a “volatile and violent” relationship with the boy’s mother Kimberley Dearden (22), had become enraged when he went to the address on Wood Crescent, and was refused entry.

Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court was told that he should have been nowhere near the flat, because of a court order prohibiting him making contact.

He began shouting outside, and as she panicked and tried to secure the premises, she was horrified to find him already climbing in through the bathroom window.

She managed to grab her mobile phone and dial 999.

Vanessa Thompson prosecuting, said he then dragged her to the floor, hit her head, and dragged her back to her feet again.

She said the mobile phone had still been connected to the emergency services number, and the operator had heard him shouting and making threats.

The court was told that Livesey had already served a 12-week prison term for breach of a restraining order before the attack on June 24.

Sentencing him, judge Timothy Mort told him:

“I want to give you another chance however, to make sure you are not brain dead, and so that you can see what a horrible effect this beating has had.”

Livesey, who pleaded guilty to breach of a restraining order and common assault, was been given a 12-month sentence suspended for two years and a further restraining order.