‘That’s it, you’re dead. You’re not coming home...’
THUG’S CAMPAIGN OF ABUSE AGAINST TERRIFIED PARTNER
A JEALOUS, violent bully who subjected his girlfriend to an horrific campaign of mental and physical abuse has been jailed.
Stephen Williams, 30, held a knife to his partner’s throat, punched her in the face, poured a corrosive cleaner over her head and threatened to kill her. He ordered her to give up her job, family and friends.
After forcing her to resign from her job – in case she was unfaithful at work – HGV driver Williams made his girlfriend travel around with him in his cab to make sure she didn’t speak to other people while he was on the road.
Williams flew into a jealous rage when she said her young brother looked ‘cute’ in a photo.
During one terrifying incident, he told her: “That’s it, you’re dead.
“Say bye to your street, you’re not coming home. I’m taking you to a field and you’re dead, and then I’m going to come back and I’m going to get your mum and sister and then I’ll save your little brother ‘til last.
“We’re gonna go to a field, I’m gonna kick you around and I’m gonna break every single bone in your body.”
Williams has now been jailed for two years by a judge who described him as a ‘controlling and manipulative bully.’
Minshull Street Crown Court heard Williams, of Newlands Avenue, Bolton, started dating the then 18-year-old in May last year.
Gavin Howie, prosecuting, said problems started when Williams told her to cut ties with her friends in the Bury area, including her best friend.
Williams then forced her to quit her job at a hair salon in Bury after becoming obsessed with the idea she was being unfaithful to him.
He worked as a HGV driver for Arnold Transport at the time and instructed his girlfriend to spend his working days with him in his cab.
While waiting at a depot in Trafford Park in July last year, Williams flew into a rage as he asked his girlfriend for details about her relationships with expartners. He held a knife to her throat, saying: “Do you think I won’t slice your throat? Because I will.”
Another witness described seeing Williams tipping a bucket of TFR – a type of corrosive cleaner – over his girlfriend’s head. He told another driver he had done it as a joke.
In August, Williams and the victim argued in supermarket after she told him she wanted to see her family. After driving her to her mother’s house, he parked outside before punching her in the face and repeatedly kicked her in the head and body.
After telling her sister about the assaults, police were called and she was treated in hospital for a fractured rib and bruising to her face.
Richard English, defending, said Williams acknowledges he behaved badly.
Before passing sentence, Judge John Potter told Williams: “These offences as a whole portray you to be a manipulative and controlling bully.”
Williams pleaded guilty to controlling and coercive behaviour in an intimate relationship; assault by beating; assault occasioning actual bodily harm; causing an unauthorised transmission from prison; and witness intimidation. He was sentenced to two years in prison. He was made the subject of a restraining order, forbidding him to see or contact his ex-partner for two years.