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Wife convicted of harassment after repeatedly calling her husband while he watched football SPLITS up with him

2023-07-26 00:00:00.0 太阳报-英国新闻原网页

A WIFE who was convicted of harassment after repeatedly calling her husband while he watched football has now split up with him.

Joanne Healey, 59, bombarded her husband Steve, 60, with calls as he tried to enjoy the Chelsea v Manchester United game with friends.

Joanne Healey and her husband Steve have now split up, a friend has said Credit: Cavendish 4

Healey was convicted of harassment earlier this week Credit: Cavendish

And when Steve stopped taking her calls, his wife then started targeting his pals John and Debbie Ashworth via their landline.

Drunk Healey hurled insults at the couple, calling them "paedophiles", before they were forced to just leave their phone off the hook.

A friend of Healey and Steve has now revealed the couple's marriage is over.

They still live in the same house, but no longer share any interests and do not socialise together.

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She also has to attend 20 days of rehabilitative activity with the probation service and pay ￡234 in costs and a victim surcharge.

Wirral Magistrates' Court was told Healey had fallen out with friend of 30 years Debbie after she was booted out of a martial arts class due to her drinking.

In the days leading up to the Premier League match, the housewife had made abusive calls and texts to her former pal.

Debbie blocked Healey but the housewife continued bombarding her - ringing her 59 times in just two hours on one occasion.

On October 22 last year, Steve had gone round to the Ashworth's home to watch the game with the couple and their son.

Debbie told police Healey kept ringing Steve and asking him "where he was and when he would be home".

He told his wife he'd be home soon and would bring the dog back with him but when he stopped answering, Healey began calling Debbie and John's landline instead.

Debbie said: "My son answered the phone to Healey and he told her to stop ringing me.

"I then told her multiple times to leave me alone and not to contact me again, but her reaction was drunken abuse, shouting and swearing at me, calling me and my husband 'paedophiles' and calling me a 's**g'.

"She even accused me of having an affair with her husband Steve, which is a lot of rubbish."

Debbie said she kept putting the phone down when Healey called as she did not want to get into an argument but the calls continued.

Eventually, she took the landline off the hook but was forced to plug it back in as she looks after her mum and feared there would be an emergency.

After Steve left, Debbie called the police, who quizzed Healey over the nuisance calls.

She told officers she just wanted the dog as her husband had been out since 4pm on October 22 till the early hours of the 23rd.

Healey, who has no previous convictions, also claimed she got annoyed when the Ashworths and Steve kept hanging up on her and admitted she had been drinking.

Passing sentence, JP Mary Garvey said: “It is unfortunate that you are in court today.

"The calls were persistent and prolonged but we are not going to place a restraining order on you because of the passage of time, it is over eight months and there have been no further incidents.