Horse rider swore at landowner then punched him in face

MUM SPARED JAIL FOR ATTACK THAT LEFT HER 10-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER IN TEARS

- AMY WALKER

A MUM hit a man on the head with a riding crop after they got into a row over the use of a bridle path.

Leanne Wright, 44, was riding her horse with her 10-year-old daughter when she went to use a bridle path on the Back O' Th' Hill farm in Tameside on May 24 last year.

An argument followed with the landowner. Wright called him a 'f***ing horrible old b******! The man told her she was trespassing and told her to go back.

Wright then got off her horse before seeing red, Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard.

Wright punched the man in the face before hitting him on the top of his head with her riding crop.