Charming, charismatic and a "real gentleman" - those were Leyla's thoughts when she first met the man who would become her husband.
Little did she know that behind his suave persona lurked a controlling and manipulative side that would result in her being imprisoned in her own home.
Her situation greatly resembles Yasmeen Nazir's in Coronation Street , whose troubling relationship with Geoff Metcalfe has seen her morph from a headstrong grandmother to a frightened, timid wife cut off from her own life.
Geoff's behaviour has left viewers feeling incredibly disturbed, with 359 complaining to Ofcom last week after he cruelly forced his wife to eat her own pet chicken in a sick attempt to 'teach her a lesson'. "I do find it quite disturbing
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