 A wife has been convicted of harassment after she nagged her husband to come from watching football. Joanne Healey, 59, repeatedly called her husband of 37 years Steve on his mobile phone as he was watching Chelsea v Manchester United on TV with friends demanding to know where he was. But when former aerospace worker Steve, 60, eventually refused to take her calls, Healey rang his friends John and Debbie Ashworth on their landline instead calling them 'paedophiles' and forcing them to leave their phone off the hook. Mr Healey went home when the match finished but his wife was later quizzed by police over the nuisance calls to the Ashworths' home in Rock Ferry, Merseyside. It emerged she had been drinking heavily at the time of the incident. At Wirral magistrates court, Healey pleaded guilty to harassment and was sentenced to a 12-month community order and fined her £80. She must attend 20 days of rehabilitative activity with the probation service and pay £234 in costs and a victim surcharge. Joanne rang four hours and hours after she had been drinking (Picture: Cavendish Press) Joanne demanded that her husband brought their dog back home (Picture: Cavendish Press) The incident occurred last October after Healey fell out with friend of 30 years Mrs Ashworth after she was asked to leave a martial arts club John had founded, due to her drinking habits. In the days leading up to the football match, Healey was said to have been abusive to Mrs Ashworth over text messages, social media and calls. She was blocked but then Mrs Ashworth began to receive unwanted phone calls to her landline. On one occasion she was said to have phoned the house phone 59 times in the space of two hours. In a statement Mrs Ashworth told police: 'Mrs Healey was unhappy at being told that she was no longer welcome at the club. 'I told her to stop calling me but she ignored that and){kind=link}
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A wife has been convicted of harassment after she rang her husband multiple times to come from watching football.
Joanne Healey, 59, repeatedly called her husband Steve on his mobile, as he was watching Chelsea v Manchester United on TV with friends, demanding to know where he was.
But when the former aerospace worker Steve, 60, eventually refused to take her calls, Healey rang his friends John and Debbie Ashworth on their landline.
She went on to launch abuse at them calling them ‘paedophiles’ and forcing them to leave their phone off the hook.