A former solider who ambushed his terrified partner in her own home before brutally attacking her said he had 'killed seven people' and that 'one more won't be hard for me' a court heard.
Ben Cotton, 41, was labelled a 'coward' and 'not even a man' by his victim as he was jailed by a judge who said that she 'genuinely believed, for good reason, that he would kill her.'
The woman, his then-girlfriend was "trapped in an evil game of cat and mouse with a monster" with Cotton at the time of attack, in the early hours of in the early hours of February 16 reports Lancs Live.
