A baby-faced abuser who wouldn't let his girlfriend go to the bathroom alone and threatened to kill her family has been locked up for more than three years.
Luke Mackie, 21, subjected Nicole Connor, 23, to almost one year of terrifying physical attacks and extreme coercive control - including choking her and removing her phone and car keys.
He would refuse to let her use the bathroom alone, and hurled her to the floor during violent outbursts. When NHS nurse Nicole found the courage to end the relationship, Mackie followed her to work and her home, and hounded her with phone calls and abusive text messages.Nicole told the Record she will never forgive her abuser but a weight has been lifted now he is locked up.She said: "I'm relieved he's behind bars.
He can't just walk away and do it to someone else - that was my biggest fear. "He's scum and I will never forgive him. He's not sorry for any of it - he's only sorry he got caught.
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