Adrian Cosmin Naom, aged 36, from Birchdale Manor, Lurgan appeared before Craigavon Magistrates Court charged with common assault. The court heard the injured party contacted police on January 3 this year after an incident at an address in Portadown. The defendant, when spoken to by police, denied any form of altercation had occurred.
Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to NorthernIrelandWorld, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. Later police attended another address and spoke to the injured party. “She stated that at 5pm she was in the kitchen with the defendant.
He was on the phone causing the injured party to get upset as she believed he was speaking with other women. In response to the injured party’s allegations the defendant allegedly said ‘if you don’t be quiet I will hurt you’,” a prosecutor said. The defendant then allegedly kicked a jar of pickles out of her hand causing them to smash on the floor.
The woman ran into the garden with the defendant following. He lifted dishes from the kitchen and threw them at the injured party. She lifted a brush in the back garden and hit the defendant’s arm ‘in self defence’.
The defendant is alleged to have said: ‘I will kill you, I will kill you’. He then ‘grabbed her right arm very tightly’ so she was unable to run away. Advertisement Advertisement “The injured party then saw a fist approaching her face.
The defendant punched her a few ti.
