Heartless + Angry + Hungry: Man Throws Girlfriend Down The Stairs Because His Dinner Wasn’t Ready.

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A 16-stone trucker left his girlfriend needing surgery after bundling her down the stairs in a row over having to cook his own dinner.

Logan Welch, 34, was so angry when his tea was not on the table when he came back from an extended day behind the wheel that he started an argument that rumbled on all through the evening.

The row ended with victim Chantelle Pearson fleeing her home in Ipplepen, near Newton Abbot, and seeking refuge with neighbours after falling down the stairs.

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Exeter Crown Court was told Logan Welch was so angry when his tea was not on the table when he came back from an extended day behind the wheel that he started an argument

She suffered a knee cartilage injury which needed keyhole surgery to fix and left her needing crutches for 90 days, Exeter Crown Court was told.

Welch, who now lives in Exeter, admitted causing actual body harm and was jailed for nine months, suspended for two years, and ordered to pay £1,500 compensation and £1,000 costs.

Recorder Mr James Freeman also made a restraining order banning him from any connection with the victim for five years.

He told him: 

‘There was an argument which ended up with you struggling with the victim at the the top of stairs, which is a dangerous place with an argument.

‘She fell to the bottom and twisted her right knee and she fled the home, returning with the neighbours. It appears you calmed down and left her house a day later for good.'

Mr Joss Ticehurst, prosecuting, said the incident happened in May of a year ago and started when Welch came home from work.

He said:

‘He's a long-distance lorry driver and was upset by the domestic situation and discovering that his dinner was not ready.'

He said the row simmered for the rest of the evening and flared up when the victim was in the bath and he went in and tipped her washbag into the water.

Another argument ensued which Miss Pearson said included him pushing her repeatedly and causing her to slip the stairs.

Mr Andrew Maitland, defending, said Welch did not accept he pushed her but took responsibility for the fall and the injuries.

He said the incident was caused not only by him having to cook his own dinner but by Welch believing his partner hadn't kept an offer to drink less and take more time on domestic duties.

He said they had run up debts of around £1,500 and he'd agreed to work longer hours but felt she was not keeping her side of the bargain.