Norfolk woman, 51, attacked mother in her own home

Tanya Green grabbed her mother by the arms before punching her, pushing her to the floor and then kicking her after a fall out at her mum's home at Lilian Close in Helledson.

Norwich Crown Court heard Green had been round at her mother's on December 16 last year when, after her brother left, there was an argument with her mother who is now 75.

Norwich Crown Court (Image: Peter Walsh, Newsquest)Matthew Edwards, prosecuting, said police were called following the argument with her mother by which time Green had "left in a taxi".

He said Green had "grabbed her by the arms" and punched and "pushed her to the floor" in the argument in the kitchen.

Green, who had been drinking, was arrested and interviewed.

She was to tell officers she could not remember what happened but had possibly grabbed her mum.

Green, of Charles Marler Way, Blofield, appeared at court for sentence on Monday (October 2) having previously denied assault occasioning actual bodily harm but admitting a lesser plea of common assault.

Tanya Green leaving Norwich Crown Court (Image: Peter Walsh, Newsquest)Juliet Donovan, mitigating, said Green was the "lynch pin" of her family and managed cottages in Blofield Heath for her mother.

She said Green and her mother "depend upon each other" and insisted Green has issues with alcohol as a result of a traumatic experience from her past when she was a child.

Miss Donovan said she had been trying to "battle the demons of what happened to her as a child".

Recorder David Stevens said it had been a "nasty attack on your elderly mother in her own home by someone who should have cared for and loved her".

But in imposing a three-month jail term, suspended for 12 months, he accepted Green's drinking had been the result of "significant" trauma in her childhood.

Green was also ordered to do 30 days rehabilitation activity requirement (RAR) and 80 hours of unpaid work.