A group turned up at a woman’s home with weapons in the early hours of the morning after a ‘disagreement’ the previous night.
Rachel Whelan, 35, turned up at the victim’s home in Northern Moor, with Darren Lee, 39, David Ellis, 48, and another man, Bolton Crown Court heard. Whelan was holding a bottle, while one of the men was holding an axe, the court was told.
Summing up the case before passing sentence, the Honorary Recorder of Bolton Judge Martin Walsh said that the “terrifying” incident had followed a “disagreement” between Whelan and the victim at a social club. Mum-of-two Whelan had been “aggressive in drink” at the time, Judge Walsh said.
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Whelan, along with the other three men, turned up at the woman’s home, who suffered bruising in an altercation that followed. The victim’s dad was also pinned up against a wall as he tried to defend her.
Whelan, Lee and Ellis all pleaded guilty to affray on the first day of their trial yesterday (Monday January 30 2023), following the incident in July 2020.
The Honorary Recorder of Bolton Judge Martin Walsh sentenced Whelan, of Coalshaw Green Road, Chadderton, to 15 months imprisonment, suspended for 18 months. She will also have to complete 120 hours of unpaid work.
Lee, of Stortford Driver, Northern Moor, and Ellis, of Albert Road, Levenshulme, were both sentenced to 20 months imprisonment, suspended for two years. Lee will have to complete 180 hours unpaid work, while Ellis will have to complete 30 rehabilitation activity requirement days and a nine-month alcohol treatment requirement. He will also be subject to an electronically-monitored curfew for four months, between the hours of 8pm and 6am.
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