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David Huntley

Controlling Spennymoor boyfriend forced partner to 'eat out of a bin' during abusive relationship

A controlling boyfriend forced his partner to "eat out of a bin" during an abusive and violent relationship.

Paul Clay isolated his girlfriend from her family and would become violent after "running out of cannabis".

The 25-year-old would regularly degrade the woman by calling her a "fat pig" and once threw her into a Christmas tree and smashed up her presents after becoming furious that she visited her family on Christmas Day.

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