Dad beat wife for asking him to clean up after their sick daughter
A dad grabbed, pushed and slapped his wife after she asked for help after one of their children was sick.
Asif Mughal told his victim ‘it’s not my job’ before attacking her in their home in Derby.
The 39-year-old grabbed his wife by the shoulder and pushed her against a wardrobe shouting ‘get out of the room’, Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court was told.
He grabbed and pushed her a second time, before slapping one of her cheeks and trying to close the door so their three children would not see the violence, the prosecution said.
Mughal then twisted her arms around her back.
He put his hands over her mouth to stop her from screaming, which the mum said made it difficult to breathe.
Mughal only let his wife of 12 years go after their daughter opened the bedroom door.
She ran out of the house to a nearby Aldi, where she asked staff to help her call the police.
Mughal denied one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, but was found guilty after a trial.
He still does not think he has done anything wrong.
District judge Jonathan Taaffe handed Mughal a 26-week jail sentence, suspended for a year.
He said: ‘This is domestic abuse at its worst. This is a situation where I am asked to accept it was an isolated incident, a one-off.
‘Domestic abuse is very rarely a one-off. It must have taken your wife considerable courage to come forward and report this to the police and go through with the prosecution.
‘Why? Because she’s the mother of your three children and she has been economically dependant on you.
‘She is to be commended that she took the view that when she asked you to assist in cleaning up the vomit of one of your children and you refused she decided enough is enough.
‘It was a prolonged incident, she must have been terrified, but she eventually managed to get free and summon help at a supermarket. On top of that your children were present and you do not accept you have done anything wrong.’
In a victim impact statement, the unnamed victim said she ‘wanted her family to work as we have three children together’ but ‘felt very low as I can’t stop thinking about what happened between us’.
As part of the suspended sentence order, Judge Taaffe ordered Mughal to carry out 150 hours unpaid work, to pay £620 prosecution costs and a £154 victim surcharge.
He also handed him a three-year restraining order not to contact his wife or go to her home.
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