A man who subjected his girlfriend to years of abuse did so to “humiliate and degrade her”, a court heard.
Ryan Hunter, of Walton Lane, Walton, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday after being found guilty of two counts of engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour, and two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The 33-year-old previously pleaded guilty to two counts of producing cannabis and one count of abstracting electricity.
Martine Snowden, prosecuting, detailed that a trial heard how Hunter routinely subjected the victim to verbal abuse, often while their child was home. He routinely called his victim a “s**g” or a “sweat”, threatened to harm or kill her, controlled who she spoke to and limited her from seeing her family.
