A drunken dad who forced his partner's head into bath water as she washed their young children has dodged jail.
Richard Mellor had been boozing all day when he launched the unprovoked attack at roughly 8pm on April 25 last year.
The family-of-four had visited Burslem Cricket Club where the 40-year-old had been downing shandy and continued drinking after returning home, Stoke-on-Trent Live reports.
