Sisters battered woman in vicious Shrigley attack

Sisters battered woman in vicious Shrigley attack

25 February 2015

TWO sisters have been sentenced to 18 months probation after carrying out a “concerted” attack on another woman in Shrigley.

Thirty nine year-old Denise Emma Geddis and 56 year-old Evelyn Stavely, were also ordered to pay compensation of £300 to the victim, who had been in a relationship with Stavely’s son.

The attack occurred in Shrigley on April 5 last year. During a contest at Downpatrick Court last month, the victim had told the court that Geddis pulled her hair and that Stavely and Geddis had both started kicking and hitting her. 

She said Geddis also bit her on the back.

The court heard they pulled the woman to the front door of the house in which the assault happened, pushed her outside and kicked her while she lay on the ground.

The woman said she was able to get up and ran to her car. She drove home and phoned the police and was later treated in hospital.

A solicitor of Geddis, of Kennedy Square, Downpatrick, said she was not proud of her behaviour, while a solicitor of Stavely, of Ava Drive, Killyleagh, said she had got “sucked into the incident” because of family circumstances at the time.

District Judge Greg McCourt said it was a “concerted attack between the two of them.”

They were sentenced at Monday’s sitting of Downpatrick District Court.