Drunk former teacher from Derbyshire assaulted his mother when she told him off for being 'selfish'

David Cauldwell admitted the assault at an earlier hearing on July 23, and returned to Chesterfield Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, October 15 to be sentenced.The court heard that Cauldwell had moved back in with his mother around two years ago after he quit the teaching profession and had been drinking heavily, prior to the attack which took place at the home they shared in Tor Rise, Matlock, on March 3.

Prosecuting, Sarah Haslam said: “He had been out drinking with a friend and returned to the house at about 6.30pm. She had cooked him a meal and done some washing and he just sat down and ate his meal without speaking. She told him he was being selfish and told him to leave.”“He said if you are ringing the police I will f****** kill you, and if anyone’s leaving it’s you, you f****** c***,” she added. “Police didn’t attend until midnight, and when they arrived they found him outside, banging on the door. He was drunk and slurring his words.

“She told police they had always had a close relationship and that he had been a teacher and a good teacher, but she thinks he had a breakdown and came to live with her.”Mitigating, John Wilford said Caultwell, 52, had now found his own accommodation at Lillybank Close, Matlock.Magistrates gave him a 12-month community order, to include 20 rehabilitation activity days, fined him £50 and ordered him to pay £85 costs and a £90 victim surcharge.

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