'She just said the first six months were a fairy tale but then it turned into a nightmare. Those were her exact words. Horrendous domestic violence. Horrendous physical abuse.'
A young woman allegedly driven to kill herself by her abusive partner said the relationship turned from “fairy tale to nightmare” a court heard.
The hairdresser, from Fleetwood, met Wellings in January 2020 and was “swept off her feet”. He had her name and face tattooed on his body just a week later and proposed marriage within three months. Miss Dawes, communicating via Facebook messenger, said her posts on there, did not show the “true side” of her life and sent Mrs Atherton photos of injuries allegedly caused by beatings from Wellings.
The court heard that, shortly before her death, Miss Dawes felt “let down” and not supported by Lancashire Police because after Wellings had been arrested for allegedly assaulting her on July 11 2022, he had contacted her again with abuse, on the face of it a breach of his bail conditions, but no action was taken against him.
“It was always doom and gloom because of what was happening with Ryan. That he was battering her. Every appointment there would be something that would have happened.”
Courts Lytham St Annes Blackpool
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