A penny-pinching boyfriend who made his downtrodden partner count their stash of firewood, rationed their dishwasher tablets and even banned her from buying gifts for her grandchildren faces jail for domestic abuse.
Shift worker Michael Marsh, 55, had inherited a substantial estate from his late mother but became so "obsessed" with saving money and building a pension pot, he refused to share any cash with his live-in-girlfriend Aileen Till.
The self styled miser instead ordered long suffering Miss Till, 54, to get up at night and check there were no logs missing from their outside shed and she was only ever allowed access to one dishwasher tablet at a time for cleaning dishes, pots and pans as Marsh believed she was giving them away.
