Ex-girlfriend of man who travelled across the Irish sea on a jet ski to see her gets early release to spend Christmas with kids

The ex-girlfriend of 'Jet Ski Romeo' has been granted early release from jail to spend Christmas with her children.

The former couple shot to fame last year after Dale McLaughlin, known as Jet Ski Romeo, broke Covid lockdown rules to see his lover Jessica Radcliffe who lives on the Isle of Man.

However, the romantic gesture may have been in vain as the couple later split in April of this year, days after Jessica was charged over an attack on a woman on the island and was sentenced to eight months in prison.

The 31-year-old walked free on November 8th after serving just three months and 21 days of her sentence.

Jessica had been involved in a vicious attack that saw her and another woman kick and punch their victim as she screamed to her housemates to protect her children who were upstairs in the home.

The woman had been involved in a dispute with Jessica and was pulled up the stairs by the pair.

Jessica admitted to assault causing actual bodily harm, assaulting a police officer and criminal damage and was handed down her sentence.

In a Facebook post written after her release, she said: "One thing I realised is that everything always ends up working out. Sometimes even better than you can imagine.

"Remember this when you feel like you're in a hard place or you feel like you're being challenged the most”.

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However, Jessica was not the only one of the former couple to get locked up.

Jessica’s ex-boyfriend Dale, who spent almost €6,000 on a jet ski to come see her, was arrested for breaking the island’s Covid rules last year.

The hopeless romantic spent four-and-a-half hours making the 27-mile journey from Scotland last December despite never having ridden a jet ski before and not knowing how to swim.

After he was freed, mum-of-two Jessica, 30, gushed: “I love Dale. How could I not after what he did?”

On his release just in time for Christmas last year, Dale said: “I would do it all over again.”

However, after Jessica's arrest, things seemed to fizzle out between the pair, and they removed pictures of each other from their social media accounts.