A controlling man dubbed himself a “wife beater” during a drunken attack on his girlfriend in which he repeatedly strangled her. Alexander Yates, 29, and the woman had been dating for around a month before things turned ‘volatile’.
He gradually began to isolate her from friends and family, told her that she wasn’t allowed to wear makeup and pulled out her hair extensions, as he told her she was ‘vying for attention from other men’, Minshull Street Crown Court heard.
“He restricted what she ate, broke her phone, told her she was a poor mother and said she was ‘mentally ill’, stating that her family and friends didn’t care for her,” prosecutor Hannah Forsyth said. The woman kept a diary of the abuse she was subjected to.
