A drug addict who forced his terrified grandmother to give him £20 a day for drugs left her losing weight and scared to go out. Scott Armstrong, 33, was living with his grandma when he began financially controlling her, demanding cash from her daily to fund his heroin and crack cocaine addiction.
The abuse got gradually worse, to the point that her daughter, Armstrong’s mother, noted that she was losing weight and stopped going out as she wanted to avoid him, Manchester Crown Court heard.
If she didn’t give him the cash he would throw furniture around the house, verbally abuse her and at one stage attacked her and ‘dragged her round like a dog’. The woman said she felt like she was in a ‘living hell’ and was left feeling 'suicidal'.
