Paranoid man jailed after knifing father and beating woman

A MAN, who stabbed his father and broke a woman’s cheekbone before robbing her, has been jailed for public protection.

Leeds Crown Court heard yesterday Simon Lee Batley, 25, had only recently been released from a prison sentence for unlawful wounding when he visited his father Steven last August.

After drinking at the house where his father was staying in Hopetown Walk, Normanton. Wakefield, they went drinking together in the Black Swan and things appeared amicable, said Alan Mitcheson prosecuting.

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But after they returned to the house they argued and his father produced a knife threatening him. There was a struggle between them during which they fell to the floor and Mr Batley senior suffered a scalp wound not blamed on his son.

Simon Batley managed to take the knife from him but then stabbed his father in the stomach. He then attacked Deborah Cain, whose home it was, demanding her bank card and threatening to kill them both if she did not hand it over.

He made them go downstairs where he repeatedly punched Mrs Cain until she lost her senses before he went to the kitchen looking for her card, said Mr Mitcheson.

When she came round she tried to escape but he threw her to the floor at the bottom of the stairs and punched her again. When she stopped moving he told his father “there I’ve killed her.”

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He had not, and forced the pair back into the living room where he took the bank card and demanded the PIN before leaving. Mr Batley spent two days in hospital while Mrs Cain, who also suffered bleeding over the brain, was detained for a day.

Batley of Seymour Street, Thornes, Wakefield admitted wounding his father with intent, causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Mrs Cain and robbery.

Michael Collins, for Batley, said he had been diagnosed with a paranoid personality which was now improving on medication.

Imposing an indeterminate sentence for public protection and ordering him to serve a minimum of three-and-a-half years, Judge Geoffrey Marson QC said: “You have a personality disorder, you have a serious drink problem and a propensity for violence, that is a dangerous combination.”

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