"I'm terrified of him": This jealous ex handcuffed his pregnant girlfriend to a radiator for FOUR hours - and only let her go when she faked going into labour
05.04.2023 - 09:37
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A jealous ex handcuffed his heavily pregnant partner to a radiator for four hours and only let her go when she faked going into labour.
Jake Corry slashed his victim with a sword and hit her over the head with a hammer during the terrifying ordeal. The 30-year-old, from Failsworth, bit her face and threw objects at her while she was chained to the radiator.
His brave victim, who was 36 weeks pregnant at the time, tricked him into freeing her after she wet herself and claimed her waters had broken. Her let her go after she exclaimed 'the baby's coming', Minshull Street Crown Court heard on Friday (March 31).
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Corry, who was the father of her unborn child, then burst into tears with guilt and began apologising. He insisted he went with her to hospital, where on arrival she told a midwife about her horrendous ordeal.
It emerged paranoid Corry had wrongly accused his victim of cheating on him. At the time, he was bail over a previous assault upon the same woman.
In a statement, the victim - who has since given birth to a healthy child - told the police: "I have sustained flashbacks and have nightmares all the time. It has significantly impacted my mental health and my friends and family have also been impacted by it.
"I remain terrified of him." The hearing was told the couple had got together in March 2021.
The victim fell pregnant but the pair were said to have a 'toxic and unhealthy relationship'. Ben Lawrence, prosecuting, said: "He was paranoid and jealous and would falsely accuse her of cheating on him, of taking drugs, and of trying to poison him.
"He was also violent towards her." The couple split the following October after