Dame Vera Baird will meet Abigail Blake on Monday to discuss her case and ways to improve experiences for other victims.
Blake sustained a broken back and neck and was left permanently disabled after Sebastian Swamy attacked her at their home in July 2017. He removed her mobile phone so she could not call 999, and she was rescued by neighbours as she lay unconscious outside the property with a severed spinal cord, five broken ribs and a punctured lung.
Six months after he was sentenced to three years and four months in prison, Swamy was granted early release. Blake, 42, a mother of two, said her case raised serious concerns about the way the justice system supports domestic violence victims.
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Blake, from Knutsford in Cheshire, only met CPS lawyers on the day Swamy was sentenced in January this year. She received no legal advice and was urged by the police to accept his plea bargain to avoid the trauma of a trial. She believed Swamy would spend a minimum of 20 months of a three-year sentence in prison.
However, the time Swamy had spent on bail wearing an electronic tag was taken into account as part of his custodial sentence and he was granted early release.
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She wasn't consulted about the early release and went into hiding with her son when she learned of it.
There seem to have been so many breakdowns in communication and Blake wasn't given good advice about agreeing to the deals on offer to avoid the trauma of court appearances.