Drug dealing nan threw table at her ex's head and told police 'I should have killed him'

A drug dealer threw a table at her ex-boyfriend's head before telling police she 'should have killed him'. Grandmother and mum-of-three Lyndsey Goulding explained that she had launched the piece of furniture 'because she'd had enough of him'.

The 50-year-old had previously been rumbled selling heroin and crack cocaine on the streets - while her former partner 'left her with nothing'. A court heard that Goulding subjected him to an 'unhappy opportunistic attack', while he lay defenceless on the floor.

Her former partner, Stephen Paul, had already been assaulted by his brother in a row over a SIM card when Goulding decided to strike. Goulding appeared at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday afternoon (December 9), the Liverpool Echo reports.

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The court heard that officers in an unmarked car spotted a group of suspected drug users at the junction of St Anne Way and Cathcart Street, in Birkenhead, Merseyside, on November 29 last year. Goulding was believed to have been 'in the process of supplying drugs'.

She was searched and found to be in possession of 13 wraps of heroin and seven of crack cocaine - class A substances worth a combined £200. Cheryl Mottram, prosecuting, described how she was subsequently released before a further incident on July 1 this year.

Goulding was said to have previously been in a 'volatile' relationship with Mr Paul for around six years, with the police being called out to domestic incidents by both parties on numerous occasions previously. In the early hours of the day in question, she was at the flat of his brother Simon Paul on Price Street in Birkenhead when her former partner entered and began rowing with his