A former head teacher of a primary school spanked his wife as punishment for having an affair after drawing up pie charts to detail how much pain she had caused him. Graham Jones, 44, told his wife that she would receive eight blows one for each day he had known about her relationship.
Jones bent his wife over a freezer in their cellar and spanked her with a plimsoll before she escaped to the kitchen. There he told her she had four more hits to come and used a spatula to deliver them. Crying and screaming, Mrs Jones was left with bruising and reddening.
Jones admitted spanking his wife at Mold Crown Court in North Wales, but claimed she had consented to his behaviour. He received an eight month prison sentence, suspended for two years and was sent on a domestic violence course.The couple’s marriage had initially run into problems when Jones resigned as a head teacher and he had difficulty finding a job. It was alleged that he became controlling and argumentative and discovered his wife’s new relationship when she accidentally sent him a text message intended for her lover.
Jones then prepared pie charts detailing how much pain she had caused him and showing how much he blamed her and the other man. In court his lawyer said that Mrs Jones had sent her husband a text two days before the offence which indicated she was willing to engage in adventurous sexual behaviour. Leaving court Mr Jones said: “I don’t know what we are doing here. “Only 32 hours before hand I received a text from her telling me she had been naughty, deserved to be punished and she consented to spanking as she has done over the years. “But it is me which is made out to be the bad guy.” Oh the rich tapestry of life, will the truth ever out? A ‘Domestic Violence Course’, he needs to be taught? I don’t think so, but maybe he fell into a trap, maybe none of us ever really know the outcomes of certain behaviour, maybe it did start as a game, maybe he is not a violent man.
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