While most people enjoy happy and committed relationships, these men have made life hell for the people they were meant to care about and love.
These criminals were all jailed at North East courts in recent months over sickening attacks on their current or former partners. Many of their victims were left with permanent physical issues as well as emotional scars from their traumatic experiences.
From a thug who subjected his partner to shocking kidnap threats about her children to a brute who left his partner to die in a pool of her own blood with a knife embedded in her chest, we've compiled a list of some of those who have been in court recently to face up to their crimes.
