A MAN hit and threw a bed at his own mother after she asked him to leave her house when he was being verbally abusive towards her.

Bradley Morgan, 35, formerly of Tycroes, appeared at Swansea Crown Court charged with two offences of common assault.

Prosecutor Regan Walters told the court that Morgan’s mum returned home in Cross Hands at around 7pm on August 16 to find her son there.

Morgan “demanded she take him to the shop”, Mr Walters said. She refused and he became “verbally abusive”, so his mum demanded that he should leave.

However, the defendant followed her inside and sat at the kitchen table. To avoid the situation escalating, his mother went upstairs  and barricaded herself insider her bedroom by moving a sofa against the door. Mr Walters said the victim could hear Morgan shouting as he walked up and down the stairs.

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Morgan then barged his way into the room and grabbed his mum’s phone from her, before raising his hand and hitting her on the back of the head.

The victim fled to a neighbour’s house to seek shelter until the police arrived. After speaking with her, the officers went to speak with Morgan.

The defendant said: ‘This is a f****** joke’, before indicating that he was willing to speak to the officers – who noted he was drunk and was slurring his words.

Morgan was asked to leave the address, and when he refused he was arrested.

The defendant, now of Swansea, had three previous convictions for three offences.

Judge Geraint Walters told Ryan Bowen, appearing for Morgan, that he was going to follow the recommendations of the author of a pre-sentence report, and asked if he wanted to make any further submissions.

“That’s the thrust of my mitigation,” Mr Bowen said.

Sentencing Morgan, Judge Walters said: “Sitting here day-in day-out as I do, mercifully we don’t get many cases of sons beating up their mother. There’s something very shameful about it.

“You threw a bed at her and you slapped her.”

The court heard that Morgan was currently serving a community order for an unrelated offence, as part of which he was ordered to complete unpaid work and 15 rehabilitation activity requirement days.

Judge Walters sentenced Morgan to a 12-month community order, concurrent for each offence. He must complete an additional 50 hours of unpaid work to that of the community order he was already serving, and further 10 rehabilitation activity requirement days.

The judge granted Morgan’s mum a five-year restraining order against him.

“She’s fed up. She’s had enough. One can understand why,” he added.