Sir Paul McCartney is the petitioner
Lady McCartney is the respondent

11.2 When the petitioner and respondent got back to their house they began to argue about the petitioner’s behaviour towards the respondent. The petitioner grabbed the respondent by the neck and pushed her over a coffee table. He then went outside, and in his drunken state he fell down a hill, cutting his arm (which remains scarred to this day).

11.3 An argument ensued in the bathroom during which the petitioner became angry and pushed the respondent into the bath. [Lady McCartney was four weeks’ pregnant]

11.18 The petitioner often told the respondent when she was pregnant that he did not want her to breast-feed their child, making on occasion the comment "they are my breasts" and on another occasion "I don’t want a mouthful of breast milk."

11.20 Even when the respondent had a broken pelvic plate in December 2003 the petitioner insisted that she cook for him while she was on crutches, could barely move and was in agony.

11.24 The respondent often needs to go to the bathroom during the night, when her prosthetic limb is not fitted and so has to crawl on her hands and knees. This causes calluses and scrapes on her knees. She asked the petitioner if she could buy an antique bedpan to keep under the bed and use at night if necessary (whilst he was asleep) so as to avoid her having to struggle. The petitioner objected vociferously, saying that it would like being in "an old woman’s home" .

11.27 . . . following an operation on the respondent’s amputated leg, an argument occurred during which the petitioner poured the balance of a bottle of red wine over the respondent’s head and then threw what remained in his wine glass at the respondent. The petitioner then reached to grab the respondent’s wine glass, and broke the bowl of the glass from the stem. He then lunged at the respondent with the broken, sharp stem of the wine glass, which cut and pierced the respondent’s arm just below the elbow, and it began to bleed profusely.

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