A jealous ex handcuffed his heavily pregnant partner to a radiator for four hours and only let her go when she faked going into labour.
Jake Corry slashed his victim with a sword and hit her over the head with a hammer during the terrifying ordeal. The 30-year-old, from Failsworth, bit her face and threw objects at her while she was chained to the radiator.
His brave victim, who was 36 weeks pregnant at the time, tricked him into freeing her after she wet herself and claimed her waters had broken. Her let her go after she exclaimed 'the baby's coming', Minshull Street Crown Court heard on Friday (March 31).
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Corry, who was the father of her unborn child, then burst into tears with guilt and began apologising. He insisted he went with her to hospital, where on arrival she told a midwife about her horrendous ordeal.
It emerged paranoid Corry had wrongly accused his victim of cheating on him. At the time, he was bail over a previous assault upon the same woman.
In a statement, the victim - who has since given birth to a healthy child - told the police: "I have sustained flashbacks and have nightmares all the time. It has significantly impacted my mental health and my friends and family have also been impacted by it.
"I remain terrified of him." The hearing was told the couple had got together in March 2021.
The victim fell pregnant but the pair were said to have a 'toxic and unhealthy relationship'. Ben Lawrence, prosecuting, said: "He was paranoid and jealous and would falsely accuse her of cheating on him, of taking drugs, and of trying to poison him.
"He was also violent towards her." The couple split the following October after Corry turned up at the victim's home drunk and punched her in the face.
The court heard how he then grabbed her best friend by the hair and smashed her head against the floor. Corry was arrested, charged and bailed on the condition that he did not contact the victim.
But trouble began again on January 24 last year when she agreed to let him attend a baby scan. Mr Lawrence added: ''He invited her to spend the weekend with him and although she was in two minds agreed to do so.
"The Friday evening went well, however, on the Saturday evening there was a dispute, caused by his paranoia. She began sending messages to try and get home but he grabbed her phone from her and when she grabbed it back he took from a drawer a 'combat sword', with a blade around 45cm in length.
"He put the blade to her neck and threatened to cut her and told her she needed to 'start talking'. She pointed out that she was pregnant but he was rambling to himself and he then cut her hand and drew blood.
"He then told her she was 'going to get more than that', threatened her with the sword and began questioning her about various males, none of whom she knew. The victim was crying and tried to tell him she was telling the truth but despite being terrified, she tried to calm him down by saying she loved him.
"He seemed to calm down for a while but if she moved he would pick up the sword again and held it to her face. He also bit her face, threw objects at her and used a set of handcuffs to chain her to a radiator.
"He threatened to disfigure her, picked up a pair of pliers and threatened to pull her toenails off with them. He threatened to cut her hair off with a pair of scissors and threatened to make a bomb out of fireworks, sugar and gunpowder, saying he was going to blow her up.
"He also picked up a hammer and hit her on the head with it and bit and strangled her. At one point, she was able to pick up the hammer and swing it at him but none of her physical defence was successful in stopping the ordeal.
"She eventually hit upon a more successful tactic, by deliberately wetting herself and telling the defendant the baby was coming. He snapped out of his rage and asked what he needed to do and then began crying, hugging her and apologising.
"He called an ambulance but when it arrived, he insisted on accompanying her to hospital. He instructed her to tell medical staff that she had fallen over, to explain her injuries but at the hospital, a midwife took her away from the defendant to a separate room, on the pretext of needing to weigh her.
"Once she was away from him, she disclosed that he had assaulted her and threatened to kill her."
Corry was later arrested in London. The court heard how while being treated at a nearby hospital, he unsuccessfully tried to escape through a glass door.
Later, when he was remanded in a custody suite, he spat at an officer who stopped him tying a grey sweatshirt around his neck. He denied any wrongdoing but whilst on the run sent his victim a text message saying: 'You need to tell them I tried to kill myself and you tried to stop me and went in labour'.
Corry - who had 35 previous offences on his record - was found guilty of false imprisonment, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, common assault and criminal damage. He was also convicted of battery and assault on an emergency worker.
Sentencing him, the judge Mr Recorder Edmund Fowler said: "You pose a high risk of harm to members of the public because of your violent history of behaviour."
Corry, of Ashton Road East, was jailed for six years. Following his release he will be on licence until 2032 under the terms of an extended sentence.
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