A woman said she was so used to being abused by her partner that it had ‘become the norm’. Stephen Pearson, 41, had been in a relationship with the woman for 25 years, throughout which he had been violent towards her.
Minshull Street Crown Court heard that during one incident he hit her so hard over the head with a broomstick that it broke.
And in another incident, at a baby shower, he threatened to ‘chop’ another person up before driving his car towards a group of people outside the pub.
