A man whose callous and over-zealous penny-pinching led to his humiliated girlfriend considering taking her own life has been ordered to pay her £250 compensation for domestic abuse.
Power plant operator Michael Marsh, 55, became so "obsessed" with saving money and building a pension pot, he refused to share any cash with his live-in-lover Aileen Till.
Despite inheriting a substantial estate from his late mother, tight-fisted Marsh ordered long suffering Miss Till, 54, to get up at night and check there were no logs missing from their outside their shed and rationed dishwasher tablets as he believed she was giving them away.
