A woman suffered two miscarriages while in a violent relationship with her bullying partner. Obsessive Patrick McConnell laughed in her face as he told her he'd "stress her out until she lost the baby" and it "would be funny" days before she suffered the first.
A judge at Liverpool Crown Court said the incidents were not linked. On another occasion he set upon her, punching her in the stomach and headbutting her after she returned home from a work night out in search of her mobile.
Neither the victim nor McConnell were aware she was pregnant at the time but days later she suffered another miscarriage. Again it was judged not to be linked to the attack despite the victim believing it was.
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