Christine Adams

When fighting broke between him and her son Craig (inset), the younger man's coarse words fell on her head, five-foot-two inches tall, 62. During the attack near Warrington, primary school cleaner Adams got into Mr Coombes' face and screamed: 'Oh, there's blood!' Only to punch him repeatedly as he responded: 'Yes, it's my blood,' he replied.' When calling 999 and telling Adams to get out of the house, she also yelled punches at his wife Gaynor. The brawl came to an end when Adams' sober husband Nigel arrived at the house in his dressing gown to break it up. During the assault, Mr Coombes, the head of a publishing company, was left bleeding from an eye injury and was said to be'very frightened.'