Wife ‘lost control’ and broke friend’s neck after finding her ‘kissing’ her husband

An angry wife ‘lost control’ and broke her friend’s neck after finding her ‘kissing’ her husband.

Susan Robson, 37, had noticed that Kirsty Adjei-Mensah and her partner were both missing from her house following a social gathering in May last year.

She then went outside looking for the pair and found them in a ‘compromising position’ which caused her to fly into a rage.

Robson’s husband ran from the scene, but she attacked Ms Adjei-Mensah, kicking her around seven times.

Medics said it was unclear how the victim’s top vertebrae in her neck was fractured, but said it would require ‘quite a bit of force’.

Newcastle Crown Court heard Robson, who has eight previous convictions, also punched her friend and walloped her with her handbag.

In a victim impact statement, Ms Adjei-Mensah said: ‘I thought I was going to die by the roadside. I can still see Susan assaulting me and smirking and I can hear the crack as my neck was broken.’

She continued on to describe how she had to have a halo neck brace screwed into her skull, adding: ‘The pain was unbearable and I was physically sick’.

Robson had hosted the victim at her home in Kenton, Newcastle, shortly before the attack took place.

Prosecutor Emma Dowling told the court: ‘There came a point in the evening when the complainant said she’d had enough and wanted to go home.

‘The defendant’s husband offered to walk her part of the way home, saying he wanted to visit his mother on the way back, which he did.’

Robson then went looking for them and saw her husband came out of his mother’s home with Ms Adjei-Mensah, stating that she believed them to be kissing.

Miss Dowling said: ‘The complainant became aware of the defendant and her daughter shouting and screaming at her and the defendant’s husband ran off.

‘What is clear from CCTV is she was repeatedly assaulted by the defendant in two separate incidents five minutes apart in the same location, next to some garages.’

Police were called to the scene and Ms Adjei-Mensah lost consciousness before being rushed to hospital.

Mitigating, Geoff Knowles, said that there had been ‘contact’ between Robson’s husband and the victim, causing her to be suspicious of them both.

He said: ‘She simply lost the plot, she was devastated at what she came across. It’s cost her her marriage, devastated her children and cost her what was a friend at the time.’

Robson, of Bowfell Avenue, Kenton, admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent and was jailed for four years.

Her previous convictions include GBH in 2016, when she attacked a woman she accused of jumping a taxi queue.

She was also handed a five-year restraining order forbidding her from contacting the victim.

Judge Julie Clemitson told her: ‘You discovered your husband and Miss Adjei-Mensah kissing and lost control.

‘When your husband ran away, your friend did not and what you saw provoked what was an eruption of violence.

‘I accept you did not go out there seeking to cause her harm but on the spur of the moment you clearly were hell-bent on doing so.

‘You say you did not deliberately fracture her neck and that I accept but in assaulting her in the way you did and in intending to cause her harm, you have to take responsibility for the  consequences of your actions.

‘The sight of them together clearly triggered you to behave as you did.’