Footage shows the moment Afghanistan war widow Christina Schmid attacks her millionaire property developer husband in a sickening alcohol-fuelled rage.
The face of the War on Terror widows was handed a 12-week suspended jail sentence last year for violently attacking second husband Adam Plumb, years after the tragic death of her beloved Olaf ‘Oz’ Schmid, who died in 2009.
She was blasted by a judge at Plymouth magistrates court for ‘being the aggressor all along’ and taking part in a ‘relentless smear campaign’ against her new spouse.
And a video, filmed on September 17, 2023, sees Schmid poking and grabbing her husband and screaming at him at the top of her voice.
She then cuts her nose with her own nail and blows the blood into Mr Plumb’s t-shirt while making a false accusation he had attacked her.
Her husband, meanwhile, can be heard saying: ‘Get off me – you are a disgusting woman.’
Later in the video he tells her: ‘You f***ing bit me. You f***ing b***h. You horrible woman.’
Pictures also show a range of bite marks, bruises and scratches from other incidents of ‘abuse’ mentioned in court.
Footage shows the moment Afghanistan war widow Christina Schmid attacks her millionaire property developer husband Adam Plumb in a sickening alcohol-fuelled rage
The face of the War on Terror widows was handed a 12-week suspended jail sentence last year for violently attacking her second husband
Mr Plumb said his daughter Elle, now 19, then phoned the police but Schmid continued hitting and scratching him. When police arrived, she accused him of assault.
Schmid’s army husband died defusing a Taliban bomb, making her a ‘face’ of the war widows left behind after the Afghanistan conflict.
The mother-of-two met the Queen and senior politicians, including then Prime Minister David Cameron, as part of her campaign for better pensions and higher salaries for those in the armed forces, before penning a best-selling memoir.
She also received the George Cross on behalf of her husband in a private ceremony.
But her reputation was left in tatters when she was sentenced last year for hitting, kicking and biting her new husband at home, receiving orders to attend rehabilitation sessions, carry out 150 hours unpaid community work and abstain from drinking for 60 days.
Mr Plumb described Schmid, now 50, ‘attacking me, hitting me in the balls, kicking me and biting me in the middle of my back’.
The previously divorced father-of-one, currently finalising a split from Christina, said he wanted to release the shocking footage to show what Schmid was ‘really like’.
He added: ‘She not only fooled me, but she fooled the nation.
She cuts her nose with her own nail and blows the blood into Mr Plumb’s t-shirt while making a false accusation he had attacked her
The video sees Schmid poking and grabbing her husband and screaming at him at the top of her voice
Her husband, meanwhile, can be heard saying: ‘Get off me – you are a disgusting woman’
‘It is horrible. It is just vile behaviour. I could not get her away from me and was trapped in the corner. It was relentless – like a dog coming at you and you cannot get them off.
‘I managed to get into the bedroom but Christina was screaming that her hand was trapped in the door. It wasn’t but I didn’t know that until afterwards so I opened the door and she continued attacking until just before the police arrived.
‘When the police turned up she screamed that I had beaten her black and blue. But they said ‘Christina you don’t have any marks on you.’ She had ripped my clothes off and I had bite marks and scratches everywhere.
‘Whatever she was doing was abuse. I decided it was the last time I was going to put up with it. I had no choice and could not keep doing it so went ahead and gave a police statement.
‘Everything was all on camera and I knew she couldn’t get away with it this time. I finally felt like I was going to be supported and I didn’t see that I had any other option than to stop it.’
The couple met in late 2018 when she was grooming Mr Plumb’s springer spaniels in Dorset.
They embarked on a five-year relationship, which he said ruined his entire life, marrying in 2020 – just one year after Schmid ended a seven-year relationship with another serving member of the Armed Forces called Mark Clarke.
Mr Plumb said: ‘She made out she had been abused by her ex-partner so I felt protective. We now know this never happened.
Mr Plumb said his daughter Elle, now 19, then phoned the police but Schmid continued hitting and scratching him
The sickening clip sees Schmid grab her husband’s arm tightly
‘It even came out at Oz’s inquest that he didn’t want to come back from tours and her ex-partners all lived the same life I did with her.
‘I cannot believe now that I fell for it. I can not even explain why or how I did but now realise I was just trapped in an abusive relationship.’
Early incidents included not being let into the house after work and being forced to sleep in laybys and Airbnbs.
Police were called on five occasions after he reported abuse – and each time she would throw accusations back at him.
He added: ‘I knew I was not the person I was being accused of being, but I accepted her doing things to me as part of feeling sorry for her.’
Things went downhill fast when they bought an eight-bed detached home together near Ivybridge, Devon for £1.5million, but Schmid refused to move and lived instead at a house on Mr Plumb’s development.
Social services then spent four months investigating him over his wife’s abuse claims without speaking to him.
When she was eventually arrested, Mr Plumb received an apology and acknowledgment that he had been the victim – but he said the damage had been done.
Pictures also show a range of bite marks, bruises and scratches from other incidents of ‘abuse’ mentioned in court
The previously divorced father-of-one, currently finalising a split from Christina, said he wanted to release the shocking footage to show what Schmid was ‘really like’
He added: ‘What I don’t understand is that Christina could have divorced me and we could have walked away with £800k each – but she wanted to destroy everything.
‘We have been married for five years but in truth I don’t have a clue who she is. She would just say and do anything to fit in with any situation so you never really knew what was genuine or who she was.
‘I felt I got bullied in to marrying her. I was the type of person that had never been bullied into anything before. I was earning £300,000 a year. I was certainly not with her for the money.’
Mr Plumb said even a £16,000 engagement ring was ‘not enough’.
He added: ‘She somehow got an occupation order despite being charged and convicted. She has sold everything of mine – including £60,000 worth of my tools.
‘Her terms for the order where that I was able to live on my boat, however, she tracked down my boat and sold it off leaving me with nothing and nowhere to live.
‘I had owned sites for five years but all the people I worked for and invested in me thought I was an abuser. She was spreading that message to everyone.’
He added that he now only receives ad hoc work, leaving him with ‘nothing’.
Pictured: an injury Schmid inflicted on her second husband. He added that after a campaign of abuse he now only receives ad hoc work, leaving him with ‘nothing’
Mr Plumb with partner Sarah Pearce and daughter Elle. He has managed to move on, finding a happy relationship with his new partner
‘She is a horrible, horrible woman and has ruined my entire life,’ he said. ‘While she is still out there she is hell for everyone she meets.
‘She even sold Oz’s George Cross medal. That is something that you should treasure and not look at it as a monetary thing.
‘I met Oz’s family at the last Remembrance and Christina has brought heartache and pain to their family.’
But Mr Plumb has managed to move on, finding a happy relationship with his new partner.
