Snaps of abuse accidents by ‘Prince Charming’ boyfriend launched

A person who portrayed himself as ‘Prince Charming’ dragged his fiancée by her hair, bit her and broke her ribs in a terrifying marketing campaign of home violence.

Jamie Thomas, 30, was sentenced to 3 years in jail on Thursday for inflicting a ‘extended and protracted assault’ towards his ex-partner Laura Williams.

Horrific harm footage reveal the extent of Thomas’ sick abuse which was carried out to an ‘appalling extent’, Cardiff Crown Court heard throughout his trial.

Despite having a historical past of violence towards romantic companions, Ms Williams stated that Thomas made himself out to be  ‘Prince Charming’ and a ‘good man’ after they first acquired collectively in 2018. 

She informed WalesOnline that she was warned by others about his historical past of home abuse, however the thug managed to persuade her that he had modified his methods. 

But inside simply eight months, he turned jealous and violent, threatening to commit suicide if she considered leaving him and manipulating her into staying with him. 

Prosecutors informed the court docket that Ms Williams’ four-and-a-half yr relationship had deteriorated by October 2022, however the pair acquired again collectively in January 2023. 

But weeks after they acquired collectively, he acquired violent along with her after they went away for the night time.

As she was undressing, Thomas saved making sexually violent feedback about what he wished to do to her, earlier than making an attempt to behave on the feedback. 

Upon rejecting his violent advances, Thomas bit her left breast and laughed when she informed him to get off. 

She retreated to the nook of the room, and he ended up falling asleep that night time. But within the morning, after seeing that a big bruise had fashioned, he didn’t express regret. 

Embarrassed, she didn’t search medical consideration. The harm has since left a heavy scar. 

Just two months later, after she went to his residence in Ely, Cardiff, he menacingly informed Ms Williams that she ‘was his’ even if that they had damaged up at this level, including that he ‘did not need to see her with anybody else.’ 

After she fell asleep in his lounge, she woke as much as Thomas ‘smashing’ her cellphone after seeing messages from different man. 

He then began ‘ragging’ her off the couch, earlier than violently grabbing her hair. 

He then dragged her into the hallway, and hurled insults at her, calling her ‘fats’, ‘ugly’ and a ‘slag.’

Thomas informed her that she was ‘f***ing with [his] head’ as she tried to run upstairs and escape. But she was pulled again down, and he punched her twice within the ribs. 

She cried ‘you have harm me’, however he didn’t apologise. 

It was solely after she escaped that he apologised by way of textual content, telling her he ‘liked her.’

But she was in ‘excruciating ache’ and couldn’t elevate her arm. An X-Ray revealed he had damaged two of her ribs. 

Just per week later, because the pair had been out celebrating his birthday, he ‘gripped her hair’ and slapped her throughout the face inflicting it to redden and an ear piercing to begin bleeding. 

He additionally pushed her down onto the ground, regardless of figuring out she had damaged ribs. 

Ms Williams finally determined to formally report the abuse to the police after being supported by Women’s Aid when she obtained therapy for her ribs, and an incident during which he adopted her when she was within the automobile with certainly one of her kids.

‘He chased me within the automobile with my little boy within the automobile. And I assumed I’ve to go to the police, I am unable to put my youngsters by way of this. I believe he knew he was dropping his grip on me. I informed him ultimately I’d rung the police and he was saying ‘they need to lock me up I deserve it.’

She says that whereas she was ‘shaking’ going through Thomas in court docket, seeing him mock her as he was despatched down made her realise that regardless of his responsible pleas he has not taken accountability for his crimes. ‘He’s a narcissist by way of and thru. He won’t ever change.

‘When he was within the dock he was laughing at me. And when he acquired despatched down he was laughing at me. That to me is ‘I’m not completed with you, simply wait until I get out’. I used to be simply considering ‘no it’s a must to be robust. He’s managed you for the perfect a part of your life, it’s a must to do that’, he must know what he is carried out.

‘I used to be shaking. I checked out him and he checked out me and I simply began crying. I simply thought ‘you have carried out all this, you have put me by way of all this.’

She says she has been left with emotional scars and struggles to belief males after the abuse. ‘I’ve panic assaults recurrently, I’ve been referred for PTSD, my psychological well being is simply method off the radar, it is unhealthy.

‘I will not belief once more. I used to say to him, ‘you are the love of my life, I’ve liked you greater than any of my ex-partners’ and now he is carried out that how am I ever going to belief one other man, what in the event that they batter me too? I’m actually sceptical of males.

‘I’ve acquired a variety of therapeutic and processing to do. I do not suppose it has sunk in but. The psychological well being workforce have informed me I’ve developed dissassociation which suggests I used to be speaking about it as if it was nothing. There had been no feelings nothing. When it was in court docket I really cried.’