A CARLISLE man who pushed a woman as he chased her son along a residential street has pleaded guilty to two assault charges.

Daniel John Ward, 32, admitted a common assault on both the woman and her husband, who reported that the defendant yelled at him. 

At the city’s Rickergate Magistrates’ Court, prosecutor George Shelley outlined how trouble erupted at Cant Crescent in Carlisle on January 26.

Two males – including the defendant – had arrived at the scene in a vehicle.

Ward had been running after the couple’s adult son and “pushed” the man’s mother out of the way as she tried to intervene.

When her husband told Ward what he had done was “not on”, the defendant said he was not interested, clenched his fist, and went up close to the man’s face.

Anthony Wilson, for Ward, whose address was given as South Western Terrace, Carlisle, said there was a suggestion that the victim’s adult son had assaulted relative of the defendant.

The victim’s son had invited Ward to meet him, threatening to “stab him up”, said Mr Wilson.

The encounter with the woman happened as Ward tried to confront the son.

Mr Wilson said CCTV showed Ward crossing the road, and trying to grab the woman’s son. As the man’s mother tried to get between them, Ward put out his hand, accidentally knocking her to the ground. What happened was not intended, and Ward apologised to her. Magistrates gave Ward a community order, with 140 hours’ unpaid work and 20 rehab days.