Husband, 80, sent to jail for hammer attack on love rival

12 April 2012

An 80-year-old man was jailed for two years for attacking a younger love rival with a hammer after watching him embrace his wife of 33 years.

Stuart Pask, a retired senior production engineer of Addlestone, Surrey, battered 63-year-old John Hanson over the head in front of commuters at Waterloo Station.

After being restrained by two off-duty policemen, Pask told them: "He's been f**king my wife."

Turning to his wife, Teresa, 61, the husband said: "You kissed him four times. He asked for it and he got it. I've spent the last year doing up our house. They've probably been in my bed and in the whirlpool which I fitted."

Blackfriars crown court heard that Mrs Pask and Mr Hanson had had an affair but claimed they had called it off.

But prosecutor Philip Jones said the former lovers met again after a meeting at the Society of Genealogists in Clerkenwell, despite Mrs Pask promising not to spend time with Mr Hanson.

Her husband knew when she would catch her train home and spotted them.

Pask admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

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