A man repeatedly punched his wife in the face in their campervan during a trip to the seaside leaving her bruised and bloodied, a court has heard.
Donald Creed initially refused to take his injured partner to the hospital following the assault, but when he eventually did he told his victim's daughter he had just "battered" her mother. The woman suffered swelling and bruising around both eyes, bruises to her shoulders and arms, a cut behind one ear, and a fractured nose in the attack. Swansea Crown Court heard the couple are now reconciled, and are trying to make their marriage work.
Sian Cutter, prosecuting, said that in June last year Creed and his wife of 13 years went for a short break in their motorhome to Llansteffan in Carmarthenshire. She said the couple spent the evening of June 26 sitting on the beach, where they were approached by a group of three people they did not know who began to talk to them.
