RUDDINGTON DRUG ADDICT SON JAILED FOR CONTROLLING ABUSE AND ASSAULT
This drug user carried out a campaign of emotional and physical demands on his own mother, begging her for money and threatening to harm her or himself if she did not hand it over.Nottingham Crown Court heard how Aaron Jeffrey’s mum would “sleep under her bed or in the garden shed” so as to keep away from him and his constant badgering for cash for class A substances.
The 27-year-old, of Ruddington, intercepted a bank card belonging to her to withdraw cash and grabbed her phone out of her hand while she was transferring money to him using a banking app and attacked her with it.
He then followed her around the house until the exhausted woman finally gave in and gave him money for drugs.
The judge, Recorder James Bide-Thomas, jailed him for a year, stating: “You demanded money from your mother so you could buy class A drugs.
If she did not give you money she threatened her with violence.
There were threats to harm yourself, threats to harm her, you stole her insulin, smashed up her house and stole her bank card.
In fact, your mother’s victim personal statement says it more eloquently than I can.
She says ‘I feel like I hide in my room to keep away from Aaron as I am in fear he will be abusive towards me.
I creep around my house to avoid waking him up and I sleep under my bed so he does not see me.
I have even slept in my garden shed’.
She says you have a power over her she cannot beat and you used multiple methods of control over her.
She has not seen her grandchildren or family for a long time because of what you have done to her.
She says she does not want a restraining order out against you so I dearly hope following your release you can treat her with some respect, kindness and consideration.” The prosecution described how the abuse took place at their shared home between April and December last year, with Jeffrey threatening her for additional money, stealing a bank card, and becoming violent, including hitting her with a phone and holding wine bottles over her as if to smash them over her.
His mother reported the behaviour to the police, and Jeffrey was arrested.
Her victim impact statement reveals she now struggles to remember who she is due to her son's actions.
Jeffrey pleaded guilty to controlling and coercive behaviour, theft, fraud, and criminal damage, having eight previous convictions for 17 offences, many against his mother.
The mitigation lawyer accepted that his mother has been “emotionally overpowered” by her son, and her client’s mother expressed her wish for him to come home after his release, stating she did not want a restraining order.
