A teacher who was hit in the head with a cricket bat by her fiancé's ex sobbed in court today as she told how the woman had “abused” her for four years.Tara Burchall broke down in tears after Audrey Swainson admitted a charge of common assault before Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo.Ms Burchall said she'd had to take a restraining order out against Swainson after she damaged her car and constantly harassed and bullied her.“For four years, I have been under emotional distress, emotional disdain,” she said. “She has been abusive to me for four years too long.” She added: “I don't want revenge.”The court heard how Swainson, 30, of Portland Lane, Sandys, went with her son to the fiancé's home on May 24 last year and “became abusive” as soon as she saw Ms Burchall.Crown counsel Susan Mulligan said the defendant picked up her son's cricket bat and swung it at Ms Burchall, striking her on the right side of her head.Ms Burchall told Mr Tokunbo: “I went out of work for three weeks. My jaw became unaligned because of the bruising. I still suffer from headaches.”Defence lawyer Shade Subair said her client had a clean record and should be given a conditional discharge for what was a “domestic dispute that ought not to have escalated this far”.“There is certainly a difference from taking a full size bat and using a certain amount of force and taking a child's mini bat and tapping,” she said. “It's a child's bat; it did not cause any bodily harm.”Mr Tokunbo ordered a social inquiry report and adjourned sentencing until March 10.