“There is absolutely no excuse for what you did": Thug attacked mum of his three-month-old baby in her own home while on bail for another assault

A thug drunkenly attacked the mother of his baby after she asked him to get out of her flat. Robert Ricketts had been banned from visiting his victim under conditions of bail, following a previous assault.

Ricketts, 21, first attacked the woman on October 13 2021 and was bailed by police following the incident. Two weeks later, on October 27, she contacted him and asked him to come to her flat because she felt suicidal, Bolton Crown Court heard.

Despite bail conditions prohibiting him from doing so, Ricketts visited with three of his friends. The group drank alcohol in the flat and the woman went to bed at around 2am, prosecution barrister Simon Barrett said.

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Ricketts went into her bedroom and repeatedly asked her for money. When she asked him to get out, he threw a coat hanger at her and slammed the door in her face.

The woman then shouted at Ricketts and he pushed her to the floor. He then left the flat with her shoes.

She followed Ricketts outside to ask for her shoes back and reached for a man bag belonging to one of his friends, who she knew to be carrying a knife, Mr Barrett said. Ricketts then rugby tackled the woman to the ground.

A short time later, he took the shoes back to the flat, got his belongings and left. Police arrived at around 4am and took the woman to hospital after noticing a patch of blood in her hair.

Ricketts, of The Haven, Little Lever, was sentenced to a community order for the October 13 assault during a hearing in November. He has since pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm in relation to the October 27 incident.

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