Fanel Costache, of St Peter's Road, Great Yarmouth, became angry with his wife about the noise she was making.

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Norwich Crown Court heard the 51-year-old "picked up a dining room chair" and "struck his wife with it" with "considerable force".

Norwich Crown Court (Image: Peter Walsh, Newsquest) Oliver Haswell, prosecuting, said the victim was "knocked off her feet" as a result of being hit by the chair and suffered injuries to her nose, eye, face and arms, and had blurred vision afterwards.

Following the incident on April 27 last........

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