A man who terrorised the mother of his three children into taking him back after she tried to end their toxic relationship has been jailed.
Ryan Rochester, 27, breached a restraining order when he moved back in with Shannon Grace, with whom he should have had no contact.
Miss Grace, 24, only ''acquiesced'' to the arrangement after she was fearful of his drug-fuelled rages, a court was told. But she called in police when bricklayer Rochester vanished on an all-night bender only turn up the next morning at their children's school and keep watch on Miss Grace as she dropped off the youngsters for lessons.
In a statement Miss Grace, of Wigan, who has a fourth child from another relationship, said: ''I am extremely depressed and I feel like I am stuck in a rut and I cannot get away from Ryan.
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