A man subjected his mother to a "terrifying attack" in which he held her head under water while she gasped for air. John Robert Butler of Mostyn Road, Mostyn, was sentenced to three years in prison and handed a three-year restraining order at Mold Crown Court today.
The 36-year-old appeared in court for sentencing after being convicted of criminal damage and assault occasioning actual bodily harm, North Wales Live reports. The court heard Butler had burst in on his mother, Teresa Butler, while she was in the bath and proceeded to hold her head under water during an attack on April 23 this year.
Frances Wilmott, prosecuting, told the hearing Teresa Butler often helped her son with a shop he ran, but on the day of the offence he had demanded she help him immediately. The court heard Butler had called her mother asking her to go to the shop, but later remarked "Don't f****** bother."
