A controlling thug who terrorised his ex-girlfriend 'tried to blind her' so she couldn't look at other men during a 'sadistic' attack.
Aston Greenwood, 33, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after the mum in her 30s was left with serious injuries and permanent scarring around her eyes.
He smashed his way into her home in the middle of the night as she slept, a court heard. Greenwood repeatedly hit her over the head with a guitar and a glass lamp, before using broken shards of glass as he 'tried to blind her' so she couldn't look at other men. READ MORE : Businessman who failed to grant his wife a Jewish divorce convicted of coercive or controlling behaviour in 'landmark case' Just before police arrived and stopped him, Greenwood told his ex: "You didn’t think I’d come through your house to murder you, did you?" The brutal attack was the culmination of five years of controlling behaviour, during which he 'bullied, terrorised, belittled and isolated' her.
During their on-off relationship, 'Jekyll and Hyde' Greenwood continually accused her of being unfaithful to him, but he was actually cheating on her.
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