A MAN has denied assaulting a woman in her home in Mold.

Andrew James Hoxby put forward an alibi to say he was at his sister’s home at the time.

But a court heard he had left his trainer shoe behind at the scene.

Police sent it off for forensic examination and got a DNA hit with his blood.

Hoxby, 24, of Northop Close in Connah’s Quay, had denied assaulting Ffion Dutton, 20, at her home in Bromfield Park, Mold, on the afternoon of March 13 but changed his plea to guilty when he appeared at Flintshire Magistrates Court at Mold.

Hoxby, alleged to have entered her home uninvited, was bailed pending sentence next week.

Prosecutor Wyn Jones said Hoxby pushed Miss Dutton aside, causing her to fall, so he could attack her partner Ryan Parker.

While it was a low level assault it had occurred in serious circumstances, he said.

At the time Miss Dutton, described in court as being of slight build, had put her young daughter in a car seat ready to take out when Hoxby entered her home.

She had never met him but knew him through social media.

Miss Dutton was “immediately concerned” and put herself between him and her partner.

It was clear Hoxby wanted to get to Mr Parker and shoved her out of the way.

She fell to the side in the hallway but suffered no injuries.

The prosecutor alleged Hoxby went on to attack Mr Parker but he had not made a complaint.

“Mr Parker is not a complainant. There is no evidence to support this but there is some suggestion it is over a drugs debt,” said Mr Jones.

There were a couple of other lads outside and one of them also went into the house and tried to get involved.

Miss Dutton was able to telephone the police and she said Hoxby had just come in and had broken Mr Parker’s leg.

Mr Jones said it appeared Mr Parker’s knee was dislocated but fortunately went back in – but things looked pretty bad at one stage.

When she shouted “the police are coming” they left and all three were seen to leave in a black BMW.

Within half an hour police stopped the car. Hoxby was driving and was not wearing any shoes.

Hoxby told magistrates he was wearing sliders.

Mr Jones said the trainer Hoxby had left behind was analysed and Hoxby’s DNA was found on it.

While he denied being at the scene the police were able, through ANPR evidence, to place the BMW in the Mold area at the relevant time.

Euros Jones, defending, said it was clear the court would require probation service intervention.

His client was a family man with his own business and there was a great deal of mitigation that could be put forward on his behalf on the next occasion, he said.

Magistrates adjourned sentence on an all options basis.