He told her that he was not going to put up with her any more and went upstairs to get changed in order to leave the address.

But as he went to leave, she stood in his way with a baseball bat in her hand. He wrestled the bat from her and put it down and then turned to go out of the front door.

But as he turned away from her, she took hold of what the crown say was a crowbar and began swinging it at him and brought it down on top of his head.

He immediately started to bleed and she threw a towel at him to clean himself up as he scrambled around for his van keys. He left and went to his mother’s house from where the police were called.