Mum detained after fending off intruder with hammer 'to protect her baby'

03.02.2022 - 20:10 / dailyrecord.co.uk

A young mum was arrested and placed in a police cell for eight hours after attacking an intruder who 'threatened her child'.

Bethany Leese, 21, was detained by officers after using a hammer in 'self defence' against a four-strong gang that showed up at her house.

Authorities remained at the scene of the incident for six hours, cordoning off two properties on Millrise Road in Milton.

A 20-year-old woman was taken to hospital after sustaining 'potentially serious' head and hand injuries, Stoke-on-Trent Live reports.

Staffordshire Police have since stated that ‘no further action will be taken’ against Bethany, who was taken into custody on suspicion of wounding with intent.

The mum-of-one insists she ‘instinctively’ reacted to protect her two-year-old son Charlie, when she struck the so-called victim with the tool.

She claims the woman - who is known to her - turned up at her address in the early hours of January 4 with two other women and a man.

Bethany told StokeonTrentLive: “We’ve been having petty arguments. She’d been using my number to book taxis so there were taxis ringing me at 5am - that’s how the argument started.

“She rang my phone about 30 times and she was drunk. She said stuff like ‘watch what I’ll do to Charlie, I’ll come and splatter him all over the road’. I didn’t think anything of it at that point.

“Then she turned up and all sorts went through my head and I thought ‘oh my God, I think they are here to follow through with the threats’.

“There were four people, three girls and one guy. They were all drunk and in a right state.

“I was angry when she called but I wasn’t worried because I’d known her for all my life. I didn’t think she would do anything like that. But when she turned up I was worried. They were