A drunken ex-husband shopped himself to police after attacking his former partner with a wrench.
Mark Crilly, 49, of The Knoll, Palacefields, Runcorn, is now behind bars and banned from approaching Gayle Hobson after confronting her at her house earlier this year. Chester Crown Court heard that Crilly and Ms Hobson had divorced in 2011 but on February 12, this year, he sent messages to their teenage daughter and made “unpleasant comments” about them “sleeping in the house he had built” and said he was “going to come around”.
He was drunk. That evening Crilly turned up at the house and “knocked but didn’t get an answer”.
