Violent ex told me he had cancer so I wouldn’t leave him

I was standing next to him as he broke the news to his mum and dad. If he can lie like that to his parents, you have got to believe it

her teenage daughter, and she believes Bevis wanted more attention.

She would drive him to his supposed chemotherapy appointments, but he wouldn’t let her come in and support him.

“He would say he didn’t want me seeing him like that. I would pick him up and he would come out with bandages and tell me all about the nurses there.” “He would have the medication, a box of pills, throughout the day. I found out they were just vitamins and supplements, I found a big bag of tablets hidden in the shed when I was clearing out his things.”

Bevis would take 20 pills a day, as part of the act.

Miss Gregory also travelled up to Guy’s St Thomas’ Hospital in London so her boyfriend could ‘see a consultant’ but again was prohibited from coming in with him.

To be even more convincing, Bevis purposefully wouldn’t eat much at the home they shared together and used the cancer as an excuse not to cook.

“I just took his word for it, he was with me when I lost my auntie to cancer, how can anyone lie about such a thing? “I was standing next to him as he broke the news to his mum and dad. If he can lie like that to his parents, you have got to believe it,” Miss Gregory said. Bevis escalated the lies, first saying that he also had mouth cancer, and later a brain tumour, and that he would die in two years.

At this point, Miss Gregory had serious misgivings about their relationship but felt unable to leave him.

She booked special nights away and experience days. Her friends even paid for a hot air balloon trip and she started making a memory box full of photos for his mum to keep, when Bevis died.

“How can you leave someone who is dying? I thought I would try and make it the best I could for him.”

She would have to help him walk around the garden using a cane because he claimed to be too weak to stand unaided, and even pretended to collapse in front of neighbours, when Miss Gregory was out.

The deceit continued, and Miss Gregory stood on the sidelines cheering Bevis on as he completed various runs. She says