An abusive husbands made threats to kill his wife after she refused to buy him cannabis and threated to "f*** up" her family. She made 86 voice recordings of the abuse throughout the relationship, and described her partner as "Jekyll and Hyde".
Richard Parry, 44, of Wrexham, had been in a relationship with his victim for 20 years but the nature of their marriage changed following the birth of their child, and he became argumentative and aggressive. She began making recordings in 2017, the first of which the defendant can be heard threatening to "break her jaw".
A sentencing hearing at Caernarfon Crown Court on Tuesday heard Parry would look after their child for a couple of hours while the victim went to work, but he would expect her home straight away to take over. Prosecutor Emmalyne Downing would refer to her as "a c***, stupid, useless, a weirdo, unstable, fat, ugly and a bad mother".
