A violent brute carried out a horror domestic abuse campaign against a woman by forcing her to swallow drugs and flushing her head down a toilet.
Kevin Sands punched, kicked and strangled the woman as well as blinding her with a torch during one harrowing attack while the pair were an item between 2004 and 2008.
Sands, 38, also abused a second woman by taking control of her life by taking over her finances, dictating what clothes she wore and where she could and could not go.
