Pregnant wife 'paralysed with fear' when Charles Hanson ‘just went for me'

THE wife of TV auctioneer Charles Hanson was paralysed with fear when her angry husband "went for her" and put his arm around her throat while she was pregnant, a jury was told yesterday.

- Sophie Robinson

Rebecca Hanson claimed that on another occastion her husband, who is accused of hurting her during 10 years of violence, threatened to burn her with embers from a fire.

Mrs Hanson appeared behind a screen in the courtroom to block her from the view of her husband.

Hanson, 46, is best known for appearing on Bargain Hunt and Flog It! The star, from Mackworth, near Derby, is charged with controlling or coercive behaviour, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and assault by beating, which he has denied.