A woman thrown out of her boyfriend’s bedroom naked at 4am after a huge row has been ordered to pay him compensation after damaging his door with two kitchen knives.
Naomi Pickwick, 32, was arrested when she hammered on Dominic Barbour's door as she cowered outside with no clothes on in the communal hallway of his shared house.
Police were called to the property when restaurant head chef Barbour unlocked the door to let Pickwick back in and injured himself when he tried to grab the bread knives from her.
She managed to throw on some clothing before fleeing but was arrested as she ran barefoot back to her house.
Pickwick, from Warrington, Cheshire, later claimed she would often be woken up by Barbour as he rolled on her with his arms and body during the night.
Both had been drinking heavily before going to bed.
At Warrington Magistrates’ Court Pickwick was convicted of criminal damage to the door following a trial and she was also ordered to pay £200 costs.
A judge accused Barbour of being "abusive" but said Pickwick had "played her part" too.
The violent bust up occurred on October 22 last year when the feuding couple had been drinking gin and tonics at home.
Mr Barbour told the hearing: "We watched some TV and then went to bed but Naomi was not happy with the amount of space I was taking. It was about 4am. She was arguing, saying I had too much of the bed.
"After that, I was kicked, I was pushed, shouted at and sworn at and had my hair pulled. I attempted to escort her out of the room. It is a shared house and there are eight other tenants.
"She was not clothed but I put her out of the room because she was being aggressive and I locked the door. I had no idea what she would do but I did not want someone aggressive in my bedroom.
"There was then a loud banging on my door, a very loud banging. I opened the door and Naomi was standing there with two bread knives in her hand. Her arms were raised up and the knives were in her hand and there were lots of dents on the door.
"I tried to take the knives off her and then I rang the police. Naomi was not very happy about that and started pulling my hair, smacking me, and ripped my T-shirt.
“She then got her clothes and fled from the scene. She also grabbed the TV with both hands as she was leaving the room and threw it to the floor.
"There was always an issue about who takes up more of the bed. I never struck her. The only thing I did was to throw her out of the room.
"I was just hoping that she would go away and that's why I locked the door. I just thought that she should go."
In her evidence, Pickwick said she would often be woken up by Mr Barbour as he rolled on her with his arms and body during the night and said he had also woken her on the night of the incident.
She told the court: "I told him before: 'Be careful when you are in bed, you are squashing me in bed.' That night we were watching a horror film before we went to sleep.
"But he woke me up because he had been rolling around. I said 'Stop it' and went back to asleep and he woke me up. I said 'What are you doing?' and he started going mad at me." He was shaking me.
"The TV was still on. I was pretty confused. We were not really arguing. It was physical, he was trying to get me out of bed. That is when the TV got damaged. He continued to try and drag me out of the room so I grabbed the wardrobe door. That was the only thing between me and getting thrown out of the room.
"When he gets angry, it is rage type anger. He dragged me out and threw me out of the room. I do not really see what the whole point of it was. It was horrible, I was really scared because I did not know where I was going to go. And why he was dragging me out naked.
"He must have grabbed me around the waist because my arms were on the wardrobe. He was dragging and pulling me. I pinged off the wardrobe and he picked me up and threw me out."
She said that was "upset, surprised and shocked" to find herself on the landing but had no memory of going to the kitchen to get the knives.
Pickwick had previous convictions for assault on police and assault against her mother.
She was convicted of damage to the door but cleared of assault and damaging the TV.
District Judge Jack McGarva told her: "This was an exceptional incident by any stretch of the imagination.
"You were turfed out of the room onto the landing in a communal house and as a human being I have to feel some empathy with you. It does not justify you getting really drunk and picking up the knives but I am human and because of the circumstances of this incident, being turfed out onto the landing naked, I think there's a realistic chance of you being rehabilitated.
"He has his part to play as well but I think you should. I do not think anyone has covered themselves in glory in this. It's unthinkable to do this to a young lady.
“In all, it is a horrible incident - a very good advert against drinking."
