A wife who bit her estranged husband in the back during a scuffle has been cleared of assault after magistrates ruled her actions to be self-defence.

Mother-of-one Hannah Kimani, 24, bit Anthony Gechengo on his left shoulder with sufficient force to leave teeth marks and a ''significant'' flesh wound, Warrington Magistrates Court heard on Monday (August 18).

The couple had been arguing at Gechengo's residence in Crewe after he discovered Kimani had borrowed £30 from a male friend, Cavendish Press reported.

In an ensuing row it was claimed he pinned his wife to the bed and called her a ''prostitute'' before punching her in the chest and stomach.

In response she punched him in the face before biting him on the back when he tried to stop her from leaving. Kimani, a support worker, fled th

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