Employee Jailed For Stealing From Jewish Care Home

Sunridge Court

A woman employed at a care home, which specialises in accommodating Jewish residents, is starting a sixteen month prison sentence for stealing from her bosses.

Pamela Darroux, 58, of Shernhall Street, Walthamstow fought the charges for over two years.

She originally appeared in court charged with eight counts of stealing money from the 43-bed Sunridge Court, located in The Ridgeway, Golders Green, north London.

Darroux was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court.

The charges covered the period from January 1, 2011 and February 28, 2014.

The care home, established in 1967, has close ties with local synagogues and Jewish organisations. 

Guernsey FC Businessman Denies Groping Waitress's Bum At Wembley Stadium Suite

A businessman fondled a young waitresses bottom during “alcohol-fuelled” hospitality at Wembley Stadium’s Bobby Moore Room following an England international, a court heard yesterday.

Founder and ex-Chairman of Guernsey FC Stephen Dewsnip, 49, - an £8,000 a year member of the exclusive suite - pulled the woman towards him and groped her as she collected glasses, the jury were told.

The full-time student from Greenwich told Harrow Crown Court: “He reached an arm out behind me and pulled me towards him and he did fondle my bum.

“He pulled me right up next to him and continued the conversation and did not acknowledge what was happening.

“I felt unable to protest. I was working and we have to be polite and I tried not to make contact with him. It’s very hard to know how to react.

“I felt like I was there quite a long time, but in reality, minutes I’d say. I was shaken and some co-workers tried to reassure me.”

When Dewsnip’s defence team suggested she could have resisted the young woman replied: “I wouldn’t dare.”

The court heard it was the night of the England v Switzerland Euro qualifier and Dewsnip, who works in financial services, had a designated member’s.

Prosecutor Miss Chetna Patel said: “It’s an exclusive restaurant and Mr. Dewsnip had his own table.

“The complainant was working as a waitress and towards the end of the evening, after the match, she was busy collecting glasses from tables.

“This defendant was sitting on his own, in conversation with the floor manager Thomas Duffy.

“He also engaged her in conversation and without invitation, suddenly and deliberately he reached around her body and pulled her closer to him and then began to fondle her bottom.

“That fondling of her bottom was witnessed by Mr. Duffy and the complainant made her excuses and left.

“The prosecution say the defendant’s actions were fuelled by alcohol, were deliberate and not accidental.”

Dewsnip was arrested when he returned to the suite for the England v France friendly international on November 17 and was questioned.

“He denied the allegation and and said he had not done it and had no recollection of touching someone’s bottom accidentally.”

The woman and Mr. Duffy  picked-out Dewsnip at an identity parade at Wembley Police Station last January.

The young woman also told the jury: “The man greeted me in conversation and said he noticed me smiling earlier in the evening.”

The defence have questioned why Mr. Duffy did not intervene. “He was in a similar position to me,” she said. “Not knowing how to react.”

She said Dewsnip groped her with one hand as he hugged her with the other.

Dewsnip, of L’hirondelle, Ruette Des Marottes, Castel, Guernsey has pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual assault on September 8, last year.

Trial continues……….. 

Charismatic Charity Boss Jailed For Defrauding £33K From Women's Centre

Canary Yellow: Court Date

The boss of a National Lottery-funded women’s charity, who used the power of her personality to defraud the organisation of £33,771, was jailed for two years yesterday. 

Ruth Hiscock, 37, was the co-ordinator of Harrow Women’s Centre, which in February 2014 secured five years of lottery money after the local council removed their £68,000 grant.

Harrow Crown Court heard she fooled the board of trustees, staff and volunteers and stayed above suspicion as she turned colleagues against each other.

Hiscock, of The Gables, North Orbital Road, Watford pleaded guilty to one count of fraud by abuse of position between December 31, 2012 and April 24, last year.

Prosecutor Miss Maureen Flaherty told the court: “The defendant’s running of the charity was deemed to be successful and utilising her strength of character and the manipulation of those she worked with she managed to keep her position of authority.

“An aggravating factor is that some of her fellow-workers were essentially short-changed. They were not paid and lost out.

“Especially concerning is that fact that Mrs Hiscock, in her role, managed to set all parties against each other while paying herself an extra salary.”

The centre, based in Andrew Close, Bessborough Road, Harrow describes itself as providing, for over twenty years, a safe place for women in need, hardship and distress.

Caged Bird: Police Custody

It provides support and counselling, including mental health assistance, training and legal advice and has thirty-two qualified counsellors, plus volunteers.

Hiscock was originally employed as a part-time book keeper, but was so impressive she was promoted to overall managerial control of the charity.

However, she plunged the centre into £26,000 in rent arrears, jeopardising the existence of the charity, which annually assists 850 local women.

When staff complained to Hiscock about lack of pay, she lied to their faces, claiming the board of trustees were unhappy with the quality of their work.

“She deflected any wrongdoing away from herself.”

Her laptop revealed she had created false invoices to assist the fraud. “Quite clearly this defendant had been paying herself far more than she was entitled to,” added Miss Flaherty. 

“She tried to cover her trail and had such control and came across as such a jovial, decent person.

“It would have been clear to her what could happen as a result of the misappropriation of funds and the charity was in jeopardy of folding.

“Fortunately a further National Lottery grant was a saving grace, but they have depleted funds that were saved for a rainy day.

“The trustees have been left feeling foolish that they could not protect the charity.”

The organisation realised there was a financial crisis last year. 

“There were initial denials by Mrs Hiscock, but in May, last year she eventually said: ‘I hold my hands up. I took the money.’

“She said she had a breakdown and turned to alcohol and could not account for how the money was spent, there was no one main item purchased.”

Hiscock is also the former director of Harrow Community Action Ltd.

No Lady: Aristo's Ex Jailed For Attacking Pensioner And Daughter

Locked-Up: Badley

The former fiancé of Prince Charles' aristocratic godson, the Hon Nicholas Knatchbull, has been jailed for attacking a pensioner and her daughter in the street.

Homeless mum-of-three Zeaphena Badley, 34, was once destined to become Lady Brabourne, but has been staging a one-woman “dirty protest” at HMP Bronzefield.

She refused to leave her jail cell for her trial at Hammersmith Magistrates Court yesterday, where she was convicted of assaulting Lai Wah Kan, 68, and 43 year-old Wai Yue Sincer.

Drug-addict Badley, who split with Eton-educated Knatchbull - heir to a £100m fortune - in 2011 was sentenced to twelve weeks imprisonment.

She was evicted form her £600,000 Bayswater apartment four years ago and has been virtually homeless since, clocking up a total of 19 criminal convictions.

Was Yue told the court she had just left Marks and Spencer at 11.30am on September 29 with her parents and was walking towards Edgware Road Underground Station when they were attacked in Chapel Street.

“The next minute my mother was on the ground. She fell quite hard, I thought she had tripped.

“I heard a woman screaming at her, saying my mother had called her Satan. 

“I confronted her and told her my mother can’t speak English and she was shouting back: ‘Don’t provoke me.’

Lai Wah Kan & Wai Yue Sincer

“She hit me in the face, I didn’t see it coming until the impact. Maybe it was a slap and it was throbbing for the rest of the day.

“I was shocked, distressed. You don’t think that kind of thing is going to happen to you.”

Her mother Lai Wah said: “Someone pushed me from behind very, very heavily and I fell down.

“Lots of people came round to help me up and the woman, who had been sitting outside Marks and Spencer’s, was shouting and screaming at me.

“My daughter was speaking to her and she pushed my daughter away and slapped her in the face.

“My arm was painful and my left leg was all bruised and red. I was very unhappy and upset, it hurt a lot and I had difficulty sleeping.”

A plain-clothes police officer arrested and handcuffed dreadlocked Badley, who was wearing jogging bottom and a black top.

“She seemed to be suffering mental health issues,” said PC Paul Penrose. “She was incoherent and talking about demons coming to cleanse the world.”

Prosecutor Mr. Sena Frimpong told the court: “Badley was shouting and screaming aggressively at them and punched Miss Sincer in the face.

“She told the police she had been called Satan by the complainants and talked about demons coming to Earth.”

Deputy District Judge Shlomo Kreiman announced: “The defendant has deliberately absented herself and made it abundantly clear she does not wish to participate in a trial in this court.

“This was an unprovoked attack on two females and one of them is sixty-eight years-old and was attacked from behind.

“Neither victim provoked the defendant into behaving the way she did.”

Badley received twenty weeks imprisonment last January for a separate assault and will be released immediately from this sentence because she has been locked-up on the charge since her arrest.

She will not have to pay costs or compensation to the victims.

She was engaged for eighteen months to Knatchbull, who has the courtesy title Lord Romsey, and is the son of Lord Brabourne, a childhood friend of Prince Charles.

He was raised in the sixty-room Broadlands stately home, Hampshire, but struggled with drug addiction, including heroin and crack cocaine use, since his schooldays and began a relationship with Badley when they started sharing a room in a west London house.

Seven Years For African Benefits Fraudster Who Swindled £191K

Seven Up: Angel Jackson

A “vain and self-important” benefit fraudster, who faked disability and created multiple identities during a £191,414 swindle, received seven years on Friday. 

Ghana-born Angel Jackson, 52, of Greenwood Road, Mitcham claimed she was confined to a wheelchair, but was caught on CCTV using the treadmill at her luxury block’s private gym.

Judge Adam Hiddleston told her: “You maintained you could not walk off the prison bus everyday. This was manifestly dishonest and there is no medical evidence to say you cannot walk.

“True to your character you aimed to deceive,” he told the mum-of-one, who used benefits to purchase a lucrative property portfolio, VW 4x4 and enjoy foreign holidays.  

“There was nothing to prevent your participation in the trial, you had nothing more serious than indigestion, yet strung things out as long as you could to engineer sone sort of mistrial.

“You have shown a quite remarkable and staggering contempt for the court, the jury and this case.

“You are a thoroughly dishonest person. Dishonest through and through, to your very core.”

A Croydon Crown Court jury convicted her of thirty-two offences, covering thirteen years from 2002, made up of fraud, using false identities and one count of illegally evicting a tenant.

She claimed a variety of benefits from Croydon and Merton Council’s and the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) while also collecting rents as a landlady on property she owned.

“You have practiced deception on a truly epic scale, targeting everyone that crossed your path, councils, insurance companies with a fictitious car accident claim and your ex-husband, who lost his assets, his dignity.  

Jackson: Fraudster Wheeled Into Court

“You put great energy into the tasks to give an air of legitimacy and you have been relentless, even when obstacles were placed in your way.

“You are a professional fraudster, that’s your life’s work. You created several personalities, changed your name, had various passports, applications for benefits, numerous bank accounts and mortgages and re-mortgages.

“You masqueraded as both a landlord and tenant and used your computer to skilfully forge letterheads.

“Millions of taxpayers pay their taxes without complaint. You have not paid a penny.

“You have taken and taken and taken and never given anything back.

“Who knows how many school places and hospital beds could have been provided by the local authorities you cheated.

“You have shown no shame, no significant remorse.

“Your bank accounts were awash with cash as a result of your dishonest activities.

“You can be a thoroughly nasty and vindictive person.

“Maybe as a result of the creation of so many identities you have become a vain and self-important person and plainly do not like anyone crossing your path.”

Prosecutor Francesca Levett told the court: “She accrued significant assets at the expense of the state, had foreign holidays, plenty of money in the bank and is extending her home.”

Her concierge-assisted luxury flat had a gym in the building, which Jackson used, despite claiming she was disabled.

“That was a facility the defendant herself used. While coming to court wheelchair-bound she was seen on CCTV using the gym and was on the treadmill for forty-five minutes.”

Jackson went AWOL for two weeks halfway through the trial and was arrested at her GP surgery, spending the rest of the proceedings in prison.

The prosecution say she claimed housing benefit on the properties, while ordering her private tenants not make any claims themselves or liaise with the local authorities.

“Her ability to recover both rent and housing benefit allowed her to gain assets at the expense of the ratepayers and legitimate benefit claimants.”

She would deposit bundles of cash - up to £50,000 - in her various bank accounts and £22,000 was found her in wardrobe.

Aliases include Angel Duffy and Diva Paris Anderson

Miss Levett added: “Miss Jackson uses, or has used a number of different names and dates of birth for reasons that cannot be legitimate.”

She married Irishman Thomas Francis Duffy, 61, but he became another victim, with heavies accompanying Jackson to his front door to collect maintenance payments.

“When using the name Angel Duffy the defendant presents herself as a respectable property owner and marketing consultant, married to a lawyer with plenty of funds in the bank.

“When using the names Quinn Portia Jackson or Angel Jackson the defendant presents as a lone parent, who becomes a mature student whilst fighting illness and disability, which makes her incapable of work, becoming wholly reliant on benefits to assist her.”

“When using the name Diva Paris Anderson the defendant portraits herself as a British national, a teacher at Queen Mary University.”

It is claimed her “alter ego” Paris Anderson, of 11 Danbrook Road, Streatham made £2,500 per month providing care and assistance to the wheelchair-bound Angel Jackson.

“She manipulated the system, told countless lies, hijacked identities and defrauded her way into becoming an affluent property owner without working a single day.”

Jackson’s claims began in 1998 when she successfully applied for income support and housing benefit as a single mum living at 167 Livingstone Road, Thornton Heath under the name Quinn Portia Jackson.

She changed her name by deed poll in September, 2001 to Angel Jackson and married Thomas Duffy on Valentine’s Day, 2002 at Wandsworth Town Hall.

He agreed to assist her immigration status by getting married, but it was never consummated and they did not live together.

Jackson moved into 126 Woodville Road, Thornton Heath with her 14 year-old daughter Latoya and continued receiving housing benefit for her old address and did not tell the DWP she was now married.

The couple bought 71 Greenwood Road, Mitcham in August 2002 with the help of fake accounts to support the mortgage application. 

“Mr. Duffy says he recalled going to see a broker and recalls signing things, but he couldn’t tell you what he was signing.

“He said that whenever he needed to sign something presented to him by his wife his glasses would disappear.”

The Home Office granted her leave to remain for five years in August, 2007, but rejected an application on behalf of her daughter.

When Irishman Duffy asks for a divorce Jackson’s anger forced him to back down.

To avoid paying council tax at 71 Greenwood Road Jackson invented a tenant, Francesca Bennett, who purportedly lived their alone and racked up a £2,500 bill.

Mr. Duffy’s share of ownership was removed behind his back and Jackson divorced him in October, 2008, eight months after receiving permanent UK residence.

Jackson bought 37 Solent Court, London Road, Norbury in July, 2005 for £150,000 and put it in her ex-husband’s name without his knowledge.

Two months later she bought 39 Solent Court for £152,500.

Jackson claimed £750 a month housing benefit for 37 Solent Court, declaring she did not own any property.

She had taken control of her ex-husband’s finances, his passport and driving licence, but failed to pay the mortgage on his home at 174 Whitehorse Lane, which was repossessed.

“He simply went and lived in a room at his sister’s property and describes himself as confused and afraid.

“He had lost everything, but the defendant still came and collected his wages every week.

“He was depressed and fragile, frightened to open his door.”

Mr. Duffy told investigators Jackson was often accompanied by big, burly men and the best thing that ever happened to him was bankruptcy because there was nothing more she could take.

The prosecution also say she forged a letter from the Dean of Kingston College, confirming to the council Latoya was still a student there.

Jackson declared her only bank account was £1,395 overdrawn when in reality she had two Barclay and three NatWest accounts containing over £65,500.

After a June, 2007 car accident Jackson successfully claimed £53,500 in care and assistance for herself and her daughter, paying themselves via aliases.

Jackson began a business degree at Queen Mary University in September, 2007, the same day her daughter began a law degree.

Fraudulent £72K Letting Agent Now Housed By Charity

Hardy Ripped-Off Tenants

A rogue letting agent, who stole £72,000 from tenants and landlords before fleeing to her native South Korea, has been ordered to stay in at night as a punishment.

Myung Hardy, 60, will also keep the money and was let-off having to do community service work because she has rheumatoid arthritis.

Ironically the disgraced businesswoman is being housed by Croydon charity Elis David Almshouse, which specialises in providing accommodation for people in need.

She was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment, suspended for two years, and ordered to obey a six-month night time curfew between 9pm and 7am.

The curfew will not be electronically tagged and the prosecution made no application for the return of the money under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

First time offender Hardy pleaded guilty at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court to seventeen counts of theft from landlords and tenants between October 1, 2010 and April 19, 2011.

The court heard she ran Jins Lettings in New Malden High Street, New Malden and collected rent on behalf of landlords and held tenants’ deposits.

However, she suddenly fled to her homeland a few weeks after police began investigating her in May, 2011.

She returned to the UK last year, claiming the business ran into financial trouble after a civil court case and she started gambling to recoup the money.

Mug: Tears On Arrest

Recorder Jonathan Kinnear QC told her: “You for a number of years ran a letting agency and in 2010 you fell into difficult financial times despite previously running a successful business.

“You had issues with the lease of a building you either occupied or others occupied and that led to a legal dispute that led you to losing a considerable amount of money in fees.

“Your reaction was a sixteen month course of thefts, stealing deposits and rent monies you received into your business account.

“You took about seventy-two thousand pounds, some of which you used to gamble in trying to turn around your financial misfortune.

“That led to greater financial difficulties.

“This was a considerable breach of trust against people who trusted their money in your hands and your culpability is high.

“You have no previous convictions and you have demonstrated clear remorse and admitted the offences in the police station.

“You are sixty years-old, suffer from severe rheumatoid arthritis and taking the other factors into account I’m prepared to suspend the sentence.”

GUILTY: Young Farmer Convicted Of Bloody Dancefloor Headbutt

Convicted: Mitchell Britten

A young Norfolk farmer has been convicted of breaking another reveller’s nose with a dance floor head butt, leaving the victim “spitting blood”.

After a day enjoying the England v New Zealand test match at Lord’s Mitchell Britten, 24, went to the Cuban-themed Embargo Republica club.

During the early hours of May 25, last year at the King’s Road, Chelsea, nightspot he head butted the 27 year-old VIP guest he says got aggressive with him.

Britten, of Cavick House Farm, Cavick Road, Wymondham was convicted by an Isleworth Crown Court jury of causing Neil Brotherston actual bodily harm.

He was cleared of the more serious count of wounding.

Britten, who claimed he only leaned forward to secure some personal space, was bailed to return for sentencing on December 16.

Mr. Brotherston, who had been drinking since 6pm, and was consuming vodka in the club told the jury: “My recollection is leaving the VIP table area, walking across the club to the bar area, to the toilet and being head butted.

“The next memory is being in a state of shock with bouncers. My nose was bleeding pretty heavily and was not straight so I presumed I’d broken my nose.

“I saw myself in the mirror of the staircase and how bloody my nose was and on my shirt. There was blood everywhere.”

He got a taxi home at 2.10am and his doctor mother told him to go to hospital.

“I had to have my nose re-straightened under anaesthetic. There is still a bump down the right hand side.”

Prosecutor Mr. Alex Wright told the jury Britten, who has always claimed self-defence, was found by police via the club’s records and questioned at Notting Hill Police Station on July 22.

Headbutted: Neil Brotherston

“He said that he bumped into a guy on the dance floor, put his hand up to say sorry and the man pushed back and came into his space.

“He said he could not push or punch the man and put his head down towards him.”

As a result Britten told police the man “began spitting blood” and he informed the club staff.

Britten appeared in court wearing his trademark country-style green hacking jacket.

Cavick House Farm described itself as a working farm that has been in the same family since the 1970’s

It boasts 16,000 free range hens on the two-acre site, with a specially-planted woodland and grassland to produce the best eggs

The farm is registered Lion Code Quality and with UK Egg Packers and is part of the environmental Natural England Higher Level Stewardship Scheme.

It has a caravan site, a self-service egg shed and a farm cafe, gift shop calledThe Hen House and a pop-up lamb shop.

Britten runs a pedigree Charollais flock of sheep alongside his commercial Lleyns flock and encourages visitors to view the livestock.

Parcel Force: Angry Woman Attacked Neighbour During Box Row

Box Row: Natalie Campbell

The owner of a Kensington apartment tried to throw her female neighbour down the front steps of their multi-million pound building because she left a box outside.

Natalie Campbell, 52, is the absent owner of the £1.9m maisonette in the Kensington Palace Conservation Area and claimed the UPS package was on her property. 

She rents the apartment for approximately £6,000 a month, but pays no service charges, to the despair of other residents.

The property freeholder has instigated legal proceedings to force her to forfeit her lease and neighbours have leafleted tenants and local estate agents to highlight her illegal sub-let.

She was convicted of assaulting 46 year-old Georgia Wagner, who lives in a £1.5m upstairs flat, after she put out a UPS box for pick-up in front of the building.

There is ill-feeling between the pair after Ms Wagner involved herself in the leafleting campaign and signed an affidavit supporting the freeholder’s legal case, which has lasted twenty years. 

“She launched at me as soon as she saw me and said something like: ‘I’ve had it with all of you leaving stuff on my property.’

“As she was screaming at me she started pounding,” explained photoshoot project manager Ms Wagner at Hammersmith Magistrates Court yesterday.

“She certainly hit me, but I put my hands in front of me so she hit my hands.

“I got scared and tried to stop her throwing me out of the building. she tried to pull me out.

Dispute: Kensington Address

“She was pounding on me and at the same time trying to pull me down the stairs.

Ms Wagner cowered in a corner as the attack continued. “I just said: ‘Please stop Natalie’ I didn’t hit back.

“I then screamed for help and when my neighbour came down Natalie let go of me and disappeared into her flat.

“I was totally shaking, just trembling,” added Ms Wagner, who suffered a small cut to her hand, which became infected and took five weeks to heal.

Prosecutor Miss Sharon Michaels told the court: “The defendant seemed quite upset about where the box was placed and started shouting at her.

“She was pounding on her and trying to pull her down the stairs and a neighbour saw her with her hands up defending herself and Campbell over her with her arms raised, hitting her.

“There is a great deal of animosity between both sides and the defendant sees red.

“The boxes belong to someone who, in her eyes, is part of the conspiracy against her.” 

Ms Wagner confirmed the neighbours were upset by a compulsory £3,500 service charge imposed to finance the freeholder’s legal fight with Campbell.

“He (the freeholder) now wants to charge us and we said: ‘This isn’t right.’ She does not live in the building, she lets out her flat.

“He’s trying to get service charges she owes.

“It took five years last time to get Natalie to pay for the outside of the building and in that time it decayed.”

Campbell says the neighbours have directed “animosity” and “anger” towards her, claiming Ms Wagner once said: “It’s four versus one. This is war.”

Miss Wagner strongly denies ever uttering the threat or pushing Campbell first during the confrontation. “That’s ludicrous, absolutely ridiculous,” she told the court.

Campbell, of

Windsor Court, Moscow Road, Bayswater said of her neighbours: “They are all friends of the freeholder.”

She claimed Ms Wagner had left four large boxes of tiles in the garden area in front of her maisonette. “The final straw was the boxes, yes.

“It’s my garden and I did say: ‘Get out and move those boxes.’

“I was in her way, but I wasn’t doing it deliberately and she pushed me out of the way.”

Campbell maintains it is legal to sub-let the two-bed, which she bought for £120,000 in 1993, and provides her only income as she tries to pay-off debts of £50,000.

She was conditionally discharged for twelve months and ordered to pay £50 compensation to Ms Wagner, £500 court costs and a £15 victim surcharge.

Afterwards Ms Wagner said: “I thought I was going to be thrown down the stairs, they are stone stairs.

“I was really shaken up and scared for two weeks. She has a key to the building and is a person who knows where I am.

“I was aware being chucked down the stairs was not going to be a pleasant experience and three months earlier she was screaming at me because in her mind we’ve conspired against her.

“We felt quite outraged that we pay our service charges and she doesn’t and makes quite a lot of money renting her flat and us paying her court fees on top is a little bit much. That’s taking the Mickey.”

Scratchcard Jackpot Winner Jailed For Attacking Wife

Luck Runs Out: Malhotra

A lottery scratchcard jackpot winner, who received a £70,000 prize alongside his wife, was caged for six months yesterday for battering and throttling her.

Balvinder Malhotra, 30, punched 28 year-old Hardeep Kaur in the face three times before grabbing her throat at their west London home.

A few months earlier he had been photographed with the mum-of-one popping a bottle of champagne, proclaiming: “Looks like 2016 is going to be a great year for our little family.”

The off-licence worker, who now lives with his parents in Bedfont Close, Feltham, denied, but was convicted of assaulting Hardeep, causing her actual bodily harm, on June 6.

He was also convicted of assaulting a five year-old boy - who cannot be identified for legal reasons - during the violent row at the couple’s home in Harlech Gardens, Hounslow.

District Judge Debbie Wright said: “It’s a significant ABH with significant injury. You can see the injuries to her when she was trying to get him off her when he was trying to strangle her.

“This crosses the custody threshold by a mile.”

Uxbridge Magistrates Court was shown photos of Hardeep’s marked and swollen face as well as scratches to her neck.

“This was a very serious incident and you were clearly under the influence of alcohol. You have a very significant drink problem,” the judge told Malhotra.

“You assaulted your wife in the most dreadful way. It was a sustained attack.

Champagne Celebration: With Wife Hardeep

“You punched her and strangled her and she had to injure you to get away.”

The defendant received several scratch marks on his arms as his wife tried to prevent him throttling her.

“It was a dreadful incident for her to endure and the boy to witness and the psychological harm to him will be high and he was vulnerable.”

Prosecutor Miss Sally Peters told the court: “The police were called by Hardeep, who said she had been punched by her husband.

“When the police arrived the complainant’s aunt and uncle were on the scene trying to persuade her not to talk to the officers and sort it out themselves.”

“Hardeep said they were out for a picnic earlier in the day and during the journey home they argued in the car.

“When they got home the defendant forced his way into the bedroom, where his wife was, had grabbed her mobile phone. 

“He punched her in the face three times, causing her nose to bleed.

“In the kitchen he put his hands around her neck and that only stops when the child intervenes.

Flash: Malhotra's Merc 

“Mr. Malhotra then struck the five year-old to the side of the face, which left no mark.

“Hardeep had some scratches on her neck and he had scratches on his hands.

“The five year-old was not injured.”

The court heard Malhotra has convictions for fraud and was cautioned by police in 2013 after admitting giving his mother a bloody nose.

Malhotra’s lawyer Mr. Adrian Lee said: “This is his first conviction for assault.

“He has Type Two diabetes, high cholesterol and asthma and keeping his drinking under control is a necessity because the condition stems from his condition.

“He is a frequent drinker of three to four cans of lager a day, plus bottles of wine. This offence stems from his alcohol abuse.

“He expresses remorse, embarrassment and shame and has not seen his wife for six months.

“He will not have a relationship with his family if he doesn’t get his drinking under control.

“He says this is completely out of character when he is not touching alcohol and he want to prove he can rehabilitate.”

The court heard Malhotra has £87,000 in the bank and earmarked his lottery win for a new business venture, bouncing back from bankruptcy in 2011.

He drives a 3-litre BMW with a personalised number plated.

Malhotra was also ordered to pay £1,000 compensation to each of the two victims, plus £650 costs and a £115 victim surcharge.

Judge Wright told a clearly shocked Malhotra: “You’ve clearly got the means to pay.

“He’s got a considerable amount in the bank hasn’t he? He had a lottery win.”