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A woman who attacked her ex-lover with metal crutches outside a pub, leaving him unconscious on the floor and with a cut to his head, has been spared prison.

Aimee Pryor, 23, carried out the "unprovoked attack" on her former partner outside Pearsons in Hull.

The victim's best friend at the time, Garry Draper, 47, was also involved in the attack on the man.

Both were fined and a request from the victim for a restraining order against Pryor was refused.

(Image: Hull Daily Mail)

Following the court case at Hull Magistrates Court, the victim told Hull Daily Mail : "I am relieved it is over but I am disappointed with the sentencing.

"She was once my partner, someone I gave a home to. He was my former best mate who had even sat at my dinner table for Christmas dinner one year when he had nowhere else to go.

"It has been two years since we split up and it was a completely unprovoked attack. I was out for a rare night out, never imagining I would bump into her.

"We had exchanged words and she had walked away. I truly believed that was it. The next thing I know she had hit me over the head with her metal crutch.

"The next thing I know I wake up and there are strangers around me. My full body was bruised from where I had been hit, some of which I suspect was while I was unconscious."

The victim also told of the distress caused to his family, who were sitting in the public gallery of the court.

"While this has been awful for me, it has also been difficult for my family who had to witness me left in that state by someone we once welcomed into our family," he said.

"I feel that they have got off lightly and would like to think that they have learnt their lesson."

(Image: Hull Daily Mail)

The court heard Pryor had been using crutches on the evening of the attack on October 1, last year.

Giving a summary of the offence, District Judge Fred Rutherford said: "I believe I am dealing with Miss Pryor on the basis that she and the complainant were former partners. It is a sad situation that has occurred.

"She made contact with the complainant with her crutch. It seems by the nature of those injuries - a cut to the left temple and grazes - that they were caused by that contact. It was completely out of character. I cannot ignore that a party was injured. He was injured as a consequence of this matter."

Mr Rutherford described Draper as a "secondary mover" in the fracas. He said Draper should have "disengaged" himself from the situation.

Draper was also struck, by friends or relatives of the injured man, the court was told.

A second man is believed to have been involved in the confrontation but has not been traced.

Mike Farr, representing Draper, said his client had found himself "in a difficult position", but accepted that he had "other options open to him."

Both Pryor and Draper admitted public order offences. They had initially been charged with assault but the Crown Prosecution Service offered no evidence.

Concluding the case, Mr Rutherford fined Pryor £120 and ordered her to pay £100 compensation to her ex-boyfriend, while Draper was given a £100 fine and £30 surcharge.