Janine Hipkins lured her ex to her home when he was beaten up to 'scare him off'

A woman has avoided jail despite luring her ex-boyfriend to her home where he was beaten, bound and humiliated by two other men.

Janine Hipkins, 19, subjected her ex to a 20-minute ordeal in which he was punched, kicked, stamped on and tied up by her new boyfriend Joshua Glasper and his friend Darren Cosgrove.

The three attackers all avoided prison on suspended sentences this week after admitting causing actual bodily harm (ABH).

Teesside Crown Court heard the victim was invited to Hipkins's home in Stockton in July last year before he was attacked.

Glasper and Cosgrove emerged and punched the victim to the head before Cosgrove kicked his legs from under him.

As the victim curled up into a ball to protect himself, the men shouted 'come on big man, get up' and 'haway then, fight me', grabbed him by the neck and pulled him into the house where he was punched and stamped on.

Glasper wielded a hammer and threatened: 'If you say anything, I'll break your fingers.'

The victim was hit with the hammer shaft - then had his wrists and legs tied.

Prosecutor Paul Newcombe said: 'All three watched him in this pathetic state laughing and drinking. He was shaking, crying and begging for them to stop.'

The victim escaped with a bloody nose and bruises to her head, arms and torso, but the attack had a lasting impact on him.

He had been in a one-year relationship with Ms Hipkins, which ended 'on a sour note' when their families 'had words' at a Christening, the court was told.

Hipkins claimed she was not involved in the violence, which she said was to 'warn him off, scare him off' and stop him 'hassling' her.

The attack ended when Ms Hipkins called her father David Hipkins, 48, to the house, and he untied and released the victim.

But Mr Hipkins also punched the victim to the head and was fined £250 for assault this week.

Joshua Glasper (left) and Darren Cosgrove (right) laughed at the victim as he was being beaten up

The judge, Recorder David Dobbin, said: 'A plan was hatched to teach the complainant a lesson, and he would quite clearly receive a beating.

'This was a nasty assault. There may have been some history but that's absolutely no excuse for what happened.

'It is perhaps fortuitous that he didn't receive greater injuries than he did.'