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Teen Admits Strangling Mother After Noise Row

The 19-year-old was given a probation Building Choices programme and 20 days of rehabilitation, reflecting the court’s decision to prioritise treatment over immediate custody.

Overview

  • The confrontation began over a noise dispute at their west Hull home on September 26 when Kadie Johnson blocked her 41-year-old mother and turned the argument physical.
  • Prosecutors told Hull Crown Court that Johnson dragged her mother to the floor, put a hand around the back of her head and squeezed her neck, restricting her breathing while the victim remained conscious.
  • The mother fled upstairs, curled into a ball to protect herself, then locked herself in a bathroom and made an eight-minute 999 call that was played in court and described as harrowing.
  • Johnson also damaged items in the home, including a television and a mobile phone, and was arrested; she initially denied strangling her mother at the police station but later pleaded guilty and expressed remorse in mitigation.
  • She received 26 sessions of the probation service’s Building Choices programme plus 20 days' rehabilitation, a non-custodial sentence that will include probation monitoring and aims to address behaviour in a young, first-time offender.