Abusive man breaks girlfriend's neck

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Teacher was left paralysed after boyfriend 'flew into a rage' and broke her neck, trial hears - LancsLive https://share.google/5352s57KEtbww895C

This horrified me. Some years ago my ex, who I was in a relationship with at the time, punched me in the face. When I retaliated he pushed me to the floor and bent my head over and sat on my neck. This could have been me.

I hope they give this pig a life sentence.

That's heartbreaking. That poor woman.

But there are so many women suffering at the hands of the men who are supposed to love them. I don't know how this cycle is ever going to get broken.

My GGGrandmother was killed by her second husband. That's a century ago and it seems not much has changed.

Is it a case of dumping at the first sign of a red flag and not giving them the benefit of the doubt?

Absolutely disgraceful and the poor lady was a widow having lost her husband to a brain tumour and I imagine she thought she had found love again.

How very sad. 😒

These men need lined up and shot

Well, I think walking away at the first sign of abuse is certainly to be encouraged. However, I think we have to be careful about making this a problem that women have to solve... that starts to stray into the territory of victim blaming.

I honestly don't know what the solution is. I want men to step up and do more to address the problem of VAWG, but I don't see them exactly queuing up to do so.

I'm very sorry about your GGGrandmother.

This made me feel sick , the sheer devastation he has caused . Yet another male abuser . I hope he’s jailed for life because he’s ruined hers .

DV is so depressingly common, and this case is particularly awful. The impact on that poor woman is horrendous - and on her DC and wider family too.

We need to educate girls and young women about the red flags, ensure that there are safe places for them to go, and make sure that the courts and police are more capable of spotting it and of enforcing restraining orders.

A life sentence would be great,but I'm not holding my breath. How many times have we witnessed male abusers get away with stuff like this? Yet when a woman kills her partner in self-defence,after years of abuse,you can guarantee she'll get handed a life sentence. Makes me bloody sick.

When will government, any government, take a stand against male violence against women, as I say ad nauseum, if men were being killed by women in the numbers women are there’d be a bloody national outcry but it’s never addressed, obvs no policy will stop disgusting men hurting women but give it some weight, some gravitas, get it out there at least, makes me so angry that this epidemic (and it is, study the numbers) is ignored year after year

He should but I doubt he will get more than a few years.
The judge will spout some victim blaming bullshit i bet.
I've lost all faith in the system when it comes to protecting and getting justice for women.

Awful, awful but if anyone can take anything from this, don't announce to an abusive man that you are going to leave him. Just wait until he is out and then leave

I hope he gets a v long sentence

It says the jury will determine intent. He was trying to kill her. What else could he have been intending to do?

he looks like a vile bastard.

Christ, that is so awful 😢.
I'm sorry you've experienced this as well.
I think we need a version of the SA G20 women shutdown here, because no-one seems to have the will to properly tackle this VAWG.

"We need to educate girls and young women about the red flags, ensure that there are safe places for them to go, and make sure that the courts and police are more capable of spotting it and of enforcing restraining orders."

Yes, and teach them to decentralise men and centralise themselves, and that being single is better than being with an abusive man, or even a man you don't want to be with. I see how my mother's generation and so many of my friends have had adult lives that have been completely blighted by being with a crap man.

The last 25 years of my mother's life was blighted by being with a crap man (my father) - a master of coercive control and a domestic bully.

I was very fortunate that I was in a position to be able to look at him fairly dispassionately and decide that I'd rather have no one than someone like him.

So yes, your point is spot on.

""The defendant has accepted that the relationship was violent, and that he had attacked her twice before.""

Sounds like attempted murder to me, but seems they are only looking at a much lower crime.

I was horrified when I read this earlier. That poor woman. The worst of it is that I bet he'll only get a couple of years inside because the argument will be he didn't intend for her to become paralysed. It makes me sick.

I've worked in the CJS for many years and I still don't really understand why mens violence against women is always downgraded in the Courts. I mean yeah I guess it's to secure a conviction. But to my mind, if you stab someone, you are trying to kill them. But the charge is generally "unlawful wounding" rather than attempted murder. Which of course carries a much lower sentence. Most DV perpetrators never go to prison.

I also happen to know that recently, literally hundreds of cases where the man was sentenced to undertake a DV programme, well these are all being "bulk" revoked because there's not enough staff to deliver the programme. So they're all getting away with it.

Tragic, and sad that women are STILL putting up with violent men, and not leaving after the first signs of violence/abuse.

We need this bastards tattooed. They should never get the opportunity to do it again.

There's another story this morning about a lawyer getting a restraining order against her partner who tracked her car. He'd been married twice before. She said she's absolutely heartbroken to have lost what she thought was her soulmate. And this is an intelligent woman who didn't act at the first sign of a red flag or two.

Yes!

Awful. There was a man in the UK who gouged his girlfriend's eyes out. Saw it on tv a few years ago. Might have been in the west country. Horrendous

They need to be locked away as well.