Moment war widow Christina Schmid attacks her millionaire property developer husband in sickening alcohol-fuelled rage

Footage shows the moment Afghanistan war widow Christina Schmid attacks her millionaire property developer husband in a sickening alcohol-fuelled rage.

Schmid became a nationally-recognised figure as she campaigned for the rights of war widows after her bomb disposal husband Olaf ‘Oz’ Schmid was killed by a Taliban IED in Afghanistan in 2009.

But she was handed a 12-week suspended jail sentence last year for violently attacking second husband Adam Plumb.

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.

Now Mr Plumb has released a video he filmed on September 17, 2023, showing Schmid poking and grabbing him and screaming at the top of her voice.

The previously divorced father-of-one, currently finalising a split from Christina, said he wanted to share the shocking footage to show what Schmid was ‘really like’. 

In the shocking clip 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.

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.

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’.

He added: ‘She not only fooled me, but she fooled the nation.

‘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.’

Schmid, then Avis, married ‘Oz’ in December 2007, but by June 2009 he was sent to Afghanistan after spells in Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and Kosovo.

The bomb disposal hero personally dealt with 70 IEDs (improvised explosive devices), notably saving an infantry company surrounded by the devices in August 2009.

Two months later, he saved his team by tracing a wire to a hidden IED, but it cost him his life, exploding and killing him instantly. 

He was due to leave Afghanistan for leave in the UK the next day. 

His funeral took place on November 24, 2009, in Truro Cathedral attended by over 1000 people. 

The hero’s wife collected his George Cross the following March on his behalf, but later sold his medals to Lord Ashcroft. They were on display in the Ashcroft Gallery of the Imperial War Museum until recently.

Schmid met her future second husband 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 Mark Clarke, another serving member of the Armed Forces.

Mr Plumb said: ‘She made out she had been abused by her ex-partner so I felt protective. We now know this never happened. 

‘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.

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 were 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’.

‘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.