A WOMAN rang the police telling them she had just tried to kill her partner after beating him unconscious, a court was told.

Judith Smith punched her partner and also hit him with a set of drawers while he lay on their bed at their home on Dunnington Avenue, Kidderminster, on September 25.

Kate Price, prosecuting, said: "At about 9pm, Judith rang 999 and told the operator, 'I have just attacked my boyfriend, I have tried to kill him, he needs an ambulance'.

"She said she attacked him with her fists an hour-and-a-half after he had had an epileptic fit."

The 55-year-old assaulted her partner of nine-and-a-half years, who "lives in fear", because she discovered he had not been paying the mortgage and that it was in arrears.

Her victim was left with a bloodshot eye, swelling to the eye, and scratches to his scalp, shoulder and back.

Barry Newton, defending, said at the time of the incident, Smith was feeling particularly down and had turned to alcohol, with which she has issues with, to drown her sorrows.

"In interview, [Smith] said she remembered a little about the incident and of what she said on the phone when she rang the police," he said.

"[Her partner] did not wish to get any treatment for his injuries."

Smith pleaded guilty to assault by beating when she appeared at Kidderminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday, October 16.

Stephen Gillespie, chairman of the magistrates, sentenced Smith to a conditional discharge for six months.

He said: "It is obvious when you made the phone call to the police you had regretted what you had done and were trying to make restitution for what you had done to your partner."

She was also ordered to pay a £15 victim surcharge and court costs of £85.