Husband punched his wife in face during drunken assault

A HUSBAND punched his wife in the face during a caravan holiday in west Wales, a court has heard.

- JASON EVANS Reporter [e-mail]

Oil-rig worker Alan Hall attacked his partner after getting drunk at a barbecue with friends, resulting in police being called.

A judge told the 49-year-old defendant that he should feel “deep shame” for what he did, and for the resulting impact on his family.

Swansea Crown Court heard the incident happened in August, 2023, during a family holiday in’a caravan in Solva, Pembrokeshire.

The court heard an intoxicated Hall grabbed his wife and pushed her on to the sofa in their caravan before punching her to the nose.

The wife told the defendant to leave and he packed his bags, but the altercation then resumed and culminated in Hall being hit over the head with an empty wine bottle by another person in the caravan.

The court heard that while at the caravan site Hall also kicked a child to the back of the legs.