Beauty therapist attacked her boyfriend in a pub after being told he’d cheated
A beauty therapist punched her boyfriend in the head twice after being told he cheated on her.
Lisa Phipps, 36, was at the Blue Barrel pub in Northwich, Cheshire, on December 16 last year when regulars said her partner Scott Moore had been having an affair.
CCTV captured Phipps ‘walking from one side of the bar to the other’ and attacking Mr Moore, Warrington Magistrates’ Court heard.
Mr Moore punched the beauty therapist back, in the face, before she grabbed a snooker cue to keep fighting him with, prosecutor Laura Simpson said.
But a bystander took it away from the mum-of-two and no more damage could be done.
When the police arrived, Phipps said: ‘I did punch him because he is my boyfriend. I did punch him in the face, I did, I am not going to deny it.’
She was arrested but Mr Moore ‘was not supportive of the prosecution’ and declined to give a statement to officers or reveal whether he was injured. The couple have since broken up.
Phipps was convicted of domestic abuse and and assault after pleading guilty to the charges against her.
Her defence lawyer Stuart Flood said: ‘She is very unfortunate to be charged in this particular matter.
‘She accepts that in a moment of anger because of what she had been told she does go across and hit him. There is no complaint from him and I think that says a lot.’
He added she was intoxicated at the time, and asked the court ‘not to involve the probation service’ in ‘any shape or form’.
Mr Flood said: ‘There is no history of violence. Phipps is in receipt of Universal Credit. She was trying to build up a beauty business, but Covid affected that.
‘There were no previous problems with either her partner or her two children. She believed that everything was rosy in the garden but, unfortunately, in the last 12 months everything changed.
‘As a result, she is no longer in a relationship with Mr Moore and wants to move on with her life.’
A probation officer confirmed there was no pattern of offending behaviour and added: ‘There is no knowledge of any information that would cause us risk concerns at this point.’
Phipps, from Rudheath in Northwich, was fined £115 and ordered to pay £166 in costs and a victim surcharge.
In sentencing, JP Stephen Walton told her: ‘In future, contain your anger. This is going on your record. If it happens again, we will involve probation.’
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