Kelsey Bainbridge attacked her best friend with a bottle and also filmed herself punching, kicking, headbutting and stabbing her boyfriend after accusing them of a fling, which they denied
A mum has been jailed after attacking her best friend with a Lambrini bottle in a jealous rage after accusing her of having an affair with her partner. Kelsey Bainbridge also recorded herself violently attacking her boyfriend before sharing the clip on social media.
Former jockey Bainbridge was jailed for two-and-a-half years after beating pal Lauren Clarke with the bottle and smashing a china plate over the head of boyfriend Connor Brownless. A court heard she recorded herself punching, kicking, headbutting and stabbing Mr Brownless.
In the clip, which went viral and led to viewers alerting the cops, Bainbridge could be heard shouting “I’ve just caught you s****ing Lauren Clarke on my couch, dirty little rat that you are”, reports the Daily Mail.
Neither supported the prosecution of Bainbridge. They both denied the allegation made by Bainbridge that they were sexually involved, with Ms Clarke having reportedly refuted the claim in now-deleted social media posts.
According to the Mail, she wrote: “I have not slept with Connor Brownless! I was fast asleep. For hours we were all together, I fell asleep and they were still up… the next thing I know I am getting a Lammy bottle wrapped around my head.
“I woke up to her saying I had slept with him. Kelsey was outside the door for five minutes when we apparently did it. Definitely, definitely not. I was flat out.”
Bainbridge, from County Durham, was sentenced at Teesside Crown Court after admitting attacking both Ms Clarke and Mr Brownless as well as possessing a shovel as an offensive weapon.
She pleaded guilty to attempted wounding with intent to Mr Brownless, and to having an offensive weapon during the incident in Spennymoor on Sunday, July 6.
The mum denied wounding Ms Clarke with intent to cause her grievous bodily harm, but admitted a lesser charge of wounding, but without intent to cause GBH.
Shaun Dryden, prosecuting, said Ms Clarke fell asleep on Bainbridge’s sofa after they returned home following a night out.
He said: “She awoke in the early hours of the morning when she was attacked by the defendant who struck her a number of times to the head with a Lambrini bottle.
“The victim learned later from social media posts that it was the defendant’s belief that this victim had been sleeping with her partner.”
Mr Dryden said the attacks on Mr Brownless were caught on camera and uploaded to social media.
He said: “The first clip shows her headbutting and punching him to the head and the second one, which lasted for three minutes, showed her accusing him of cheating on her.
“She then breaks an ornament over his head and then stabs him in the area of the neck with the piece of broken ornament before slashing at his face.
“There are a number of blows delivered with the weapon and she strikes him on the head a number of times before headbutting him.”
The court heard Bainbridge was arrested while carrying a shovel as she headed towards her friend’s home.
Mr Dryden said: “She was heavily intoxicated and aggressive and told police: ‘I walked in on him sh****** her, of course I was going to kick f*** out of them both.”
Tony Davis, mitigating, said his client genuinely believed she saw her partner and her best friend cheating on her sofa.
He said: “Her background is littered with some tragic life events which have all crystallised into a chaotic period of time where she was plainly self-medicating with illegal substances.
“She was simply crying out for help and that is a recurring theme in her pre-sentence report.”
Bainbridge was heavily intoxicated with alcohol and cocaine at the time of the attack. The aspiring jockey’s hopes of becoming a full-time rider ended in 2016 when, aged 17, after she fell backwards from a 14ft wall and broke her neck in four places.
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