Hamstersarse sorry you went through that 
I think what really gets to me about these cases is there is inevitably a point where the police could and should have done more. Panic alarms, markers on her address, involving social services so it is made abundantly clear that to remain with the perpetrator will risk the victim’s children being removed. I don’t blame women who return to these creatures, when you’re beaten down and abused it is so difficult to find the courage to leave and stay away when they’re pressuring and scheming and won’t leave you alone. Support from the right places can make all the difference.
The police could and should have made sure the crimes he had committed were taken seriously. It would be interesting to know how much bother they took over preparing the case and making sure it was as watertight as possible. I am a bit surprised that a guilty plea for weapons was sentenced at Magistrates court. Certainly my local force would have pushed for that to be sentenced at Crown. Just yet more evidence of the endemic misogyny in the police. God it makes me rage. Another woman’s life lost because of a man and systems which enable men to repeatedly offend.