A senior NHS nurse who found peace through angling after her abusive ex attacked her family on the very day he was due in court to face charges of violence against her has issued a warning about the “slow spiral” of domestic violence.
When Arran Smith, 31, was jailed for five years and 10 months at Stafford Crown Court in December 2021, after admitting charges including two counts of actual bodily harm and two charges of breach of a non-molestation order, Aimee Eaton, 35, had been reduced to a shadow of her former self.
