Kevin Barrett, now 61, viciously attacked his mother, Eleanor Holmes, then 79, on April 29, 2019 when she refused to let him drive her vehicle because he didn’t have a driver's licence, a Jan. 29 ruling released Feb. 24 said.
Holmes had told a court preliminary inquiry that she both loves her son and is terrified of him.
Justice Steven Wilson was told Barrett pulled his mother into the vehicle’s passenger side, pushed her down into the foot well and struck her both with his fists and with a blunt object.
“He ripped out handfuls of her hair and threw her dentures out of the vehicle,” Wilson said. “He bit a chunk from her hand and attempted strangulation with a seatbelt.”