Woman sustained bruises so severe from abusive ex it ‘brought police to tears’
A diminutive woman was left with horrific bruises all over her body after she was viciously assaulted by her abusive 23 stone boyfriend.
Jessica Davies was just 15 years old and still at school when she started dating Thomas Parry, then 21, who at 6ft tall towered over her 5ft 3 inch frame.
But not long after starting their relationship, Jessica says she soon found herself subjected to eight years of controlling behaviour which left her ‘believing he was going to kill me.’
She first tried to leave Parry at age 19, but was convinced to return to him after he promised her that he’d changed.
But he resumed his violent behaviour shortly afterwards, which culminated in a horrendous assault last August which even hardened cops found sickening.
Following an altercation at her father’s 70th birthday party, Parry smashed Jessica’s face and stamped on her body after they returned home, while their two-year-old son lay sick with chickenpox in a nearby bedroom.
Horrendous pictures of the assault show Jessica’s legs, arms and back covered in bruises so bad that there’s barely any skin visible on her left limb.
Ms Davies, now 23, told The Sun: ‘He grabbed my hair and began smashing my head on the sofa.
‘He spat and stamped on me with his trainers and I was semi-conscious at one point.
‘The pain was so horrific my body went numb.
‘My body was black and blue all over from the bruises. He hit me so hard in the face there was blood everywhere from my nose.
‘When I saw myself in the mirror I barely recognised myself. He beat me so hard – I could barely walk and I hurt so badly. I was in absolute agony.’
She eventually escaped from the home by running out the door when Parry was not looking and showed the photos of her horrific injuries to her family, who immediately contacted the police.
The pictures of her bruises were so severe that one of the police officers investigating the case was moved to tears when they saw them.
‘I really believed he was going to kill me. He was a hulk of a man.
‘He was absolutely savage and tried to dehumanise me in every way he could. He told me nobody could stop him.
‘He then kept me in the house for two weeks so nobody could see my bruises and forced me to tell my family I had Covid so they couldn’t visit.’
Jessica already previously filed a restraining order against Parry when she was 19 after he allegedly punched her in the head.
Following the ordeal, she has now bravely spoken about her traumatic ordeal in order to raise awareness of domestic abuse.
She had also warned women to look for red flags in relationships to ensure they can stay safe.
Ms Davies said these can include the controlling behaviour she experienced early in her abusive relationship, such as being alienated from from friends and family, having her phone taken away and the demands Parry made over what she could wear.
Parry was jailed four four years in March at Cardiff Crown Court, with half his sentence to be spent on licence.
The court heard he had 14 previous convictions, including for common assault.
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