The girlfriend of a Long Island banana mogul has begged a Manhattan judge not to issue an order of protection barring him from touching her again — even after a jury found him guilty of assaulting her last May.
“There can be no question that the effect of the people’s recommended sentence — with its full eight-year order of protection — would serve to actually victimize me,” Alison Bretherick, 29, said in a July 17 letter to Supreme Court Judge Daniel Fitzgerald ahead of the sentencing of Long Island Banana Corp. heir Thomas Hoey, 46.
“I believe that Tom has already been harshly punished, like myself, through this ongoing process. We love one another and want to share our lives, particularly in this time of extraordinary need.”
She bizarrely added, “I savor my trips to see Tom in jail; they are the highlight to my week.”
The battered blond also submitted a letter from Long Island University psychologist Camilo Ortiz stating that he found no evidence she was in an abusive relationship and that her love for Hoey is “genuine and deep.”
“I savor my trips to see Tom in jail; they are the highlight to my week.”
- Alison Bretherick
To refute prosecutors’ claims that Hoey’s beatings left damage, Bretherick included medical records indicating that her hearing is excellent and that she has no chipped teeth.
The DA wants Fitzgerald to issue the restraining order when Hoey is sentenced Aug. 22 for beating up Bretherick and tampering with evidence to cover up the assault in 2012.
Hoey had tried to clean up Bretherick’s blood before cops responding to a neighbor’s 911 call arrived at their Upper East Side home in 2012, prosecutors said at trial. He faces up to four years behind bars.
Bretherick showed up to her beau’s trial every day to support him and sobbed when the guilty verdict was read in court.
Hoey is in a federal jail for allegedly giving a woman cocaine during a three-way hotel-room sex party (not involving Bretherick) and refusing to call 911 as she fatally OD’d. That case goes to trial in September.
Despite Bretherick’s loyalty to Hoey, her parents testified against him and wrote to the judge asking for an order of protection for their daughter.
Hoey’s estranged second wife, Wendy, and their son, 12, wrote letters pleading for leniency.
“I miss my Dad and I need him in my life so can you find it in your heart to let him come home?” the boy wrote.
Dozens of letters from family, friends and staffers also called for a sentence of time served.
Hoey, who also has an adult son with his first wife, had run the banana-importing company with his father.