Woman in tears as she's jailed alongside boyfriend after dad attacked with machete

A woman cried as she and her boyfriend were handed prison sentences for chasing down and attacking a dad with a machete.

The victim's terrified nine-year-old daughter witnessed her father be cornered in a pub car park and hacked with the weapon, which cut so deep that it reached the bone. Following a burst of road rage, Chelsea Mighall called in her boyfriend Rory Pearson to race to her aid.

The couple raced through the streets in their separate cars as they pursued the man before cornering him in a pub car park, reports the Liverpool ECHO. Liverpool Crown Court heard that Peter Hamlet had been the front seat passenger in a brown Vauxhall Meriva being driven along Hoylake Road in Bidston, Wirral, by his partner Tammy Winstanley at around 6pm on June 15 this year, with their little girl having been sat in the back of the car.

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Henry Riding, prosecuting, described how they were heading home along the "busy" route when Mighall pulled out in front of them from shops on their right-hand side in her grey Nissan Qashqai, "pushing her way" in and "forcing them to slow to a stop".

Ms Winstanley beeped her horn as a result, at which the other driver stopped and got out of her vehicle. She too exited her car at this.

Mighall, of Worcester Road in Bidston, was then said to have "shouted a torrent of abuse" and been "very aggressive and threatening". The 35-year-old reportedly told the other woman at this point: "I'm gonna punch your head in you fat cow."

Ms Winstanley then "advanced towards her" and aimed a blow at her before Mr Hamlet got out of their vehicle and pulled her away. All three then got back into their cars and drove off