POLICE called to a domestic disturbance found Naveed Alam pushing his girlfriend against a fence and shouting angrily.
But Blackburn magistrates were told that before the police arrived it had been the girlfriend who had been the aggressor, scratching and punching Alam.
Alam, 23, of Highbury Place, Blackburn, admitted a breach of the peace and was bound over in £100 to keep the peace for six months. Andrew Church-Taylor, defending, said Alam, a meat wholesaler, had been contacted on the phone by his girlfriend who was quite agitated. "When he got to her home she began to attack him, scratching and punching, and he held her against the fence in an attempt to restrain her," said Mr Church-Taylor. "That is when the police arrived but he is prepared to be bound over."
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