2:20pm Tuesday 30th March 2010
By Nigel Freedman
A man has been jailed for a violent attack on his wife and one of her friends.
Francis Lawlor, 48, kicked and punched his wife Joan during the incident at a flat in Findon Road, Brighton, on Saturday.
Lawlor, of Nuthurst Place, Brighton, also pulled her friend Debbie McEwan to the ground by her hair.
Mrs Lawlor was taken to the Royal Susex County Hospital, Brighton, for treatment for bruising and swelling on her head.
At Brighton Magistrates' Court yesterday, Lawlor admitted assaulting both women by beating.
He was jailed for 21 weeks and must also serve the remaining three weeks of an earlier sentence he had been released on licence for after he previously assaulted his wife.
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