 He has also breached a restraining order to see her on two previous occasions. Malin had punched her in the head on two occasions in June 2020, until she decided enough was enough and called the police. He had also grabbed her hand while she was driving and pulled her thumb back several times, back on 13 August 2017. In a victim impact statement read in court, Malin's mother said: "The assault made me feel vulnerable, it made me worry about who is going to be on my doorstep. "Before he was arrested I was always scared of opening my front door worried it could be him. "I'm sad for both of us, it has had an impact on my mental health and I feel scared, lonely and sad every day." As well on appearances in soaps,){kind=link}
Joshua Malin, 34, who appeared on EastEnders and The Bill, has been jailed for nearly four years after a string of harrowing attacks on his mother
A former actor who repeatedly punched his elderly mother as she lay in bed sobbed as he was jailed for nearly four years.
Joshua Malin, 34, who appeared in EastEnders as a ‘Camcorder Lad’ when he was a teenager in 2003 and in The Bill as Jimi da Costa in 2006, assaulted his mother Diana, 71, at her home in March this year, repeatedly punching her in the face.
But Mrs Malin, who sustained a bruise to her eye socket and to her knee in the horrific attack, broke down in tears in the well of the court as her only child was jailed for three years and eight months and prevented from contacting her for a decade.
The actor had previously been convicted of five offences against his mother, including assault occasioning actual bodily harm in 2010 and 2020, battery in 2018 and 2020 and criminal damage in 2013.