Heartbreaking details have emerged about missed opportunities to save Kiena Dawes, a 23-year-old pregnant woman who tragically took her own life after enduring years of domestic abuse at the hands of her fiancé, Ryan Wellings. Despite multiple reports to the police and visible signs of abuse, authorities failed to adequately protect Kiena, leading to devastating consequences. Wellings, who was found guilty of assault and controlling behavior, was cleared of manslaughter. The case has sparked outrage and calls for an investigation into the police's handling of Kiena's pleas for help.
Heartbreaking missed opportunities to save a pregnant woman from her drill-wielding 'torturer' fiancé have surfaced. Kiena Dawes, 23, tragically took her own life after a campaign of terror at the hands of Ryan Wellings, 30. As the Mirror reports the monster bully was found guilty of assault and controlling and coercive behaviour on Monday. He was cleared of manslaughter.
Speaking after the conviction, Kiena's devastated mum Angela Dawes said: 'I'm finding it almost impossible to put into words how big of an impact losing Kiena has been. Kiena was a rare gem. She brought so much love and kindness to this world, into everyone who loved her. She was an extremely beautiful girl and was quite truly the sweetest, kindest and gentlest person I have ever known.' Three cops from Lancashire Police are now facing misconduct hearings after it was heard Kiena had approached the force on multiple occasions about Wellings' behaviour towards her across two-and-half years of violent abuse. A suicide note found on the tragic mum's phone contained a message which read: 'I hope my life saves another by police services acting faster.' Jurors at Preston Crown Court had heard Kiena left a note saying, 'Ryan Wellings killed me,' before leaving their nine-month-old daughter with a friend and taking her own life on a railway line on July 22, 2022. It emerged in the 12 months before she killed herself, Kiena made no less than five calls to police to report assaults or give details of the domestic abuse she had suffered. Kiena also appeared battered and bruised, including a black eye on two of the four occasions cops visited her home. She was six months pregnant at the time. Kiena, a hairdresser from Fleetwood, Lancashire, was so terrified of Wellings it is only when he brutally attacked her in front of their baby, 11 days before she died, she finally backed efforts to prosecute him. But police granted Wellings bail and then failed to lock him up when he breached his bail conditions. 'I was in hospital longer than he was in the cells,' she would write in a message shortly before she killed herself. Kiena battled with mental health challenges from the age of 13 and had on a number of occasions attempted suicide. She was later diagnosed with Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder, which resulted in increased impulsivity, poor self-esteem and difficulty in relationships. Leaving her a vulnerable young woman. In January 2020, Kiena was introduced to Wellings, a friend of her brother Kynan. The relationship quickly became intense, with Kiena swept off her feet in what she saw as a 'fairytale romance'. But in the previous year Wellings, raised in Blackpool, Lancashire, had attacked his then-partner Kayleigh Anderson following a two-day coke and booze session with an uncle. Having picked him up in her car, Wellings called Ms Anderson a 'bitch' before striking the back of her head. He admitted battery against Ms Anderson, with whom he has twin girls, and after Kiena's death would be convicted of punching a friend in the face following a drinking session. And wasn't long into his new relationship with Kiena that Wellings' true colours shone through. During the Covid lockdown of Spring 2020, the hairdresser travelled to stay with a friend in Dorset. Wellings followed her, proposing to her on the beach holding a banner that read: 'Will you marry me, baby?' Kiena accepted and in May that year they moved into a property on the south coast. Within weeks, a jealous Wellings attacked Kiena after demanding to look through her mobile phone. Kiena's pregnancy later in 2020 meant she stopped taking medication for her mental health condition, which deteriorated and which Wellings then exploited. The young woman recalled in a witness statement given to police: 'The emotional abuse was on a daily basis... He would talk to other women on social media and was cheating. would call me names like am I a psychopath and a freak. He kept telling me I would talk to myself and I would have my baby taken off of me.'
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