A WOMAN who thought her estranged husband was cheating on her took painful revenge.

Blackburn magistrates heard Sue Green grabbed his genitals and pulled, ripping his scrotum.

The court heard the victim managed to escape and ran to his flat and locked himself in until the police arrived.

Green, 50, of Exeter Street, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to assaulting Barry Green causing him actual bodily harm and breaching a restraining order in his favour.

She was sent in custody to Preston Crown Court to be sentenced on May 8.

Andy Robinson, prosecuting, said the restraining order was imposed in January when Green was convicted of assaulting her husband.

She was also made subject to a suspended prison sentence.

Despite the restraining order they had resumed their relationship although they lived in separate flats in the same building.

“He describes his wife as fantastic when she is sober but not when she is in alcohol,” said Mr Robinson.

Mr Green had been invited to his wife’s flat for tea and some other friends came round for drinks.

Mr Green said he stayed up all night and Green came down at 9.30am with a glass of Frosty Jack’s cider and a cigarette.

She accused him of having an affair with a friend of theirs and he phoned the other woman to tell her what was happening.

“While he was on the phone the defendant slid her hand down his body and grabbed hold of his scrotum,” said Mr Robinson.

“She dug her fingernails in and ripped the right side of his scrotum.

“The aggrieved was left with a laceration to his scrotum.”

Damian Pickup, defending, said the fact the housing association had given her and her husband flats in the same building had not helped.

“She did her utmost to keep away from him but he has been bombarding her with texts saying he wanted to resume the relationship and that is effectively what they have done,” said Mr Pickup.

“She found out he had been sending lewd text messages to another female and she confronted him.”

Mr Pickup said Green was upset because she felt her husband was playing mind games, looking to rekindle their relationship while being involved with another woman. On the spur of the moment she grabbed his genitals and you have seen the photograph of the cut to his scrotum,” said Mr Pickup.