Two female Metropolitan Police Detectives’ intense affair came to a violent end when one throttled the other and banged her head against a wall for putting salt on the meal she had prepared.
Detective Constable Asweina Gutty, 34, screamed: “Are you for real? I’ve spent hours making f***ing dinner and you’ve put f***ing salt in it.”
She and her Detective Constable girlfriend - a married mum - then ate in silence until Gutty attacked her as she left to return home, a court heard.
“Just walk away and do what you do best, go back to your nice house and f*** your husband,” shouted Gutty.
Prosecutor Mr. Edward Cohen told Westminster Magistrates Court: “The defendant then grabbed her around the throat and pushed her back, causing the complainant to bang her head against the wall.
“She tried to grab the defendant’s wrist and pull it away and was in a state of shock and her head banged against the wall for a second time.”
Both officers are attached to the borough of Tower Hamlets and met last September, while serving on Bethnal Green’s Community Safety Unit.
Gutty, of Elder Court, Saw Mill Way, Stoke Newington pleaded guilty to assaulting her ex at the address on May 27 and will return to court for sentencing on September 21.
District Judge Nina Tempia announced: “The controlling behaviour was a feature of the relationship, stopping the complainant seeing her friends.
“What concerns me is she is a serving police officer prone to anger outbursts and she is dealing with members of the public.”
Mr. Cohen explained: “Both the defendant and the complainant are females in a same-sex relationship. The complainant is married with children and living partly with her family.
“They met at work, where they are both serving police officers and the complainant came to Ms Gutty’s flat on the day of the assault.
“They had an argument because the complainant put some salt in her dinner.
“The atmosphere soured and they ate in silence and the victim went into the bedroom to get her things.”
The court heard this angered Gutty, who shouted: “That’s it. Run away like you always do. You’re a coward.”
She told Gutty her behaviour was “not acceptable” and left with her keys in her hand.
“The defendant kept trying to pull the keyring from her hand and they had a struggle over the keys,” added Mr. Cohen.
“As she walked to the car park the complainant looked back and saw the defendant following her.
“The defendant said: ‘If you try and do me over I’ll come and find you.’
“Ten minutes later she started bombarding the complainant with texts, phone calls and WhatsApp messages.”
She reported Gutty to the police and made a statement. “She said during the relationship the defendant was very volatile and would go off over trivial things.”
Afterwards the victim said: “I cannot tell you how difficult this is. It is breaking my heart, but Asweina needs to know how much she hurt me.
“We had an extreme connection, we became inseparable, being with her was amazing. I loved her so much.
“When my family found out I lost them, but if being with Asweina meant losing my family then so be it.
“We were going to live together, have a family, have adventures, travel and live life to the full.
“I look at our photographs together and they remind me of great times, but there is a dark shadow.
“Asweina screamed at me because I couldn’t put stuff in a bag at the supermarket and because I left a used tissue near the bed.
“She did not want me to see my friends because of her jealousy.
“Her reactions were like a volcano, shouting at me and I’d apologise just to keep her calm.
“There were also insults like: ‘Whore, slag’ and: ‘You white people.’
“Asweina became angry because I put salt in the dinner, like I was a small child that had done something dangerous. I felt belittled.
“She followed this with anger and a rage in her eyes. Asweina became someone else and I feared for my safety.
“I saw then that this surely could not be love.
“Asweina destroyed us and our future and everything that we had fought so hard for.
“She made me feel weak, embarrassed and ashamed.
“I never in a million years expected to be the victim of domestic abuse. I always thought it was something that happened to other people, not people like me.
“I’ve been on an emotional rollercoaster, taken to black places and feel hollow inside.
“I am grieving the loss of Asweina and feel lost without her. It breaks my heart that we are where we are now.”
“I loved her so much, but the monster within her is more dominant than the loving woman I fell in love with.”
Gutty claims her behaviour is the result of PTSD after being exposed to disturbing incidents in her police work.
She says a training course in March, last year “triggered” her behaviour, which contributed to the end of her previous three-year relationship.
Gutty is currently on restricted part-time duties with the Met.
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