A TWO-TIMING HUSBAND SUBJECTED HIS LOVER TO A TER
A TWO-TIMING HUSBAND SUBJECTED HIS LOVER TO A TERRIFYING
12-HOUR ORDEAL DURING WHICH HE REPEATEDLY STRUCK AND BIT THE
WOMAN’S FACE – BECAUSE SHE REFUSED TO LIVE WITH HIM, THE OLD BAILEY
HEARD ON THURSDAY.
GEORGE LOVELOCK, 58, WAS SAID TO BE ‘BESOTTED’ WITH BRIGET
HARRISON, HIS LONG-TIME LOVER WHO LIVED ON THE SAME ESTATE AS
LOVELOCK AND HIS WIFE.
THE COURT HEARD LOVELOCK AND HIS MISTRESS BOTH HAD A DRINK
PROBLEM AND ROWED FRQUENTLY.
ON JUNE 18 THIS YEAR LOVELOCK WENT TO MISS HARRISON’S FLAT
CONCERNED ABOUT HIS DOMESTIC SITUATION AND WITH AN OPERATION HE
WAS DUE TO FACE THE FOLLOWING DAY, THE COURT HEARD.
‘LOVELOCK WENT TO THE FLAT AND PRODUCED A SMALL BOTTLE OF
VODKA.
MISS HARRISON TOLD POLICE HE WAS IN HIS ”NORMAL DRUNKEN
STATE” AND SUGGESTED HE SHOULD GO HOME,’ SAID MR DAVID PAGET,
PROSECUTING.
LOVELOCK SAID HE WANTED TO MOVE IN WITH HER BUT MISS
HARRISON REFUSED BECAUSE HE WAS STILL MARRIED.
IT WAS THEN THAT LOVELOCK ASSAULTED HIS LOVER A NUMBER OF
TIMES.
‘HE MUST HAVE BITTEN HER MORE THAN ONCE,’ SAID COUNSEL .
OVER THE NEXT 12 HOURS LOVELOCK SMASHED DOWN A BED-ROOM
DOOR, LAY ON TOP OF HER AND STRUCK HER WHEN SHE TRIED TO FLEE, IT
WAS SAID.
‘HE EVENTUALLY LEFT HAVING TELEPHONED THE HOSPITAL.
MISS
HARRISON’S DAUGHTER RETURNED AND SEEING HER MOTHER TELEPHONED
POLICE,’ ADDED COUNSEL.
MISS HARRISON WAS TREATED FOR MULTIPLE CUTS AND WAS GIVEN A
TETANUS INJECTION.
LOVELOCK TOLD POLICE HE HAD BEEN ‘STONE DRUNK’ THAT NIGHT
AND REMEMBERED LITTLE.
HE WAS SAID TO BE REMORSEFUL AND
‘APPALLED’ AT HIS BEHAVIOUR.
IMPOSING A TWO YEAR JAIL TERM SUSPENDED FOR TWO YEARS JUDGE
COOMBE SAID: ‘I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND AND I WANT THE GENERAL
PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND THAT ANYONE INFLICTING INJURIES IN THE
NATURE OF MISS HARRISON’S MUST HAVE TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT
IMPOSED.
‘YOUR PASSION WAS MISPLACED,’ ADDED THE JUDGE.
LOVELOCK, OF MEAD COURT, KINGSBURY, PLEADED GUILTY TO
ASSAULT OCCASSIONING ACTUAL BODILY HARM.
HE WAS ORDERED TO PAY #250 COMPENSATION TO MISS
HARRISON.
ENDS
