Christina Plumb, 49, whose former husband was killed by the Taliban, attacked Adam Plumb in a drunk rage
A woman who became a prominent campaigner for military personnel after her husband was killed by a Taliban bomb has been found guilty of assaulting her new partner.
Christina Plumb, whose late husband Olaf Schmid was a bomb disposal expert, hit, kicked and bit Adam Plumb at their home in Devon, a judge heard.
Alistair Verheijen, prosecuting, told South Devon magistrates court in Newton Abbot that Plumb, 49, drank a large amount of gin when she got into bed and tried to cuddle her husband in September last year.
He said Adam Plumb, 41, went to go to another bedroom to sleep but she began kicking him in the back and pulling off the bedcovers. They ended up in a dressing room where the prosecution said the defendant bit her husband’s back and ripped off his T-shirt during an attack lasting up to 20 minutes.
Adam Plumb the court: “She was full of rage, scratching, kicking out at me relentlessly.
