Three women battered wrong man over 'wolf-whistle'

Three women were furious when someone wolf whistled at them - and beat up the wrong man. The trio, all drunk, chased innocent Richard Tailby into a car park and savagely battered him while shrieking: "All men are stupid!"

They got mild-mannered Richard, 22, in a headlock and flattened him under a ferocious hail of punches and kicks. The women - Claire Edwards, Vanessa Delaney and Sally Pawson - thought he'd had the nerve to whistle at them as they boozily danced in a flat in Grimsby.

But it was actually one of a group of Richard's pals who made the noise after spotting them through a window.



Fish factory worker Edwards, 25, told police the men had been "gobbing off" and calling them lesbians - but confessed drinking vodka made her "horrible" and violent. As the women turned up at the town's magistrates' court sporting baseball caps and tattoos Delaney swigged from a can of beer.

The jobless 38-year-old had admitted she was an alcoholic while unemployed Pawson, 24, said she had been "ten out of ten" on a scale of drunkenness before the attack. All three admitted assault and were given three-month suspended jail sentences.

Magistrate Mike Corry told them: "You were like a pack of animals." Andrew Havery, defending, said his clients had over-reacted.