‘Take a look at your garden, it’s the last time you’re going to see it’

An adult son told his elderly mother: “Take a last look at your garden, it is the last time you are going to see it because I am going to kill you now.”

The 38-year-old, behaving like a “mad man” and “wild animal” had placed his arm across his mother’s neck during assaults which resulted in fractures, lung injuries and others which left her “black and blue from the head down”.

The woman, in her 70s, seeking a barring order, said she was treated like a “rag doll”.