rodmalcolm published Student violently assaulted flatmate in her bedroom

A theatre student scared a flatmate with a blow torch made by setting light to a deodorant spray, a court heard. The woman felt "heat to her face and neck" before 24-year-old Thomas Bailey stopped frightening her in a bedroom.Hannah Strawson, prosecuting, said that the woman left her bedroom door ajar and Bailey walked in without knocking, although she had gone to bed.He was holding a kitchen knife and began to pick up her belongings. This prompted her to get out of bed and take them...