Teenager stripped and beaten by ex finds how she found strength to say him

A courageous teenager stripped bare and kicked down the steps by her violent boyfriend has revealed how she at closing found the strength to say him after a yr of abuse.

Grace Weatherill became left scarred for existence after her then accomplice Cassius Harrison subjected her to a series of vicious attacks.

Now the 19-yr-extinct has spread out about her horrific ordeal after seeing Harrison jailed, Gazette Live stories.

Grace says she became petrified when Harrison, also 19, lashed out after she got a text from a family friend who became simply wishing her a ‘Happy Christmas’.

Harrison knocked Grace unconscious with a single blow, leaving her to wake up on the bedroom flooring.

Grace, from Normanby, Teesside, acknowledged: « He had long undergone my phone as soon as I had long gone downstairs and found a text from a chum of mine who he didn’t cherish.

« I walked aid into the room and he literally jumped on me. He head-butted me and knocked me out and even told me drag to health facility as soon as I came round because my nostril wouldn’t destroy bleeding. »

Grace claims after struggling violence on the hands of Harrison for extra than a yr, she at closing found the strength to say him.

Harrison became jailed for 20 months for five separate assault charges at the side of assault occasioning loyal bodily destroy at Teesside Crown Court docket.

Grace acknowledged: “I will honestly sigh that I haven’t been so timid of someone in all of my existence. Before the entirety, issues were loyal between us, nonetheless he rapidly became possessive and controlling.

“I opinion I’d never drag him and on the time I became fearful to switch to someone for aid or protection as I feared that something worse would occur.

“He made me feel cherish I didn’t possess a build on the planet and that I became nugatory. »

Grace added: “I don’t drag away the residence on my own now, as soon as I earn in my car I lock the doors, if my backyard gate slams I mediate it’s him and I will’t sleep, I’m a fearful spoil, living in trouble 24/7.

“He vulnerable to hurt me bodily and mentally and would normally stand over me and repeat me I became grotesque or fat.

“I vulnerable to ceaselessly repeat myself that every the abuse and beatings would be 1/2 acceptable if I had unquestionably performed something rotten.

« He would earn me mediate I had performed something rotten. But I never left the residence as I wasn’t allowed to, I wasn’t allowed to socialize with friends and even drag to the bingo with my mum.”

Grace says she knew she had to earn some distance from Harrison for loyal when he forcibly removed all her dresses and threw her down the steps.

She acknowledged: “I became round his residence when we started arguing over something tiresome.

“He locked me within the residence and took my ranking and name, then he ripped off my dresses so I became thoroughly bare. I unquestionably opinion this time he became going to raze me.

“He kicked me up and down the steps over and over except I curled up correct into a ball in hope he would mediate I became unconscious.

“I then heard him working the bathtub with scalding sizzling water and him shouting down the steps, ‘you correct glimpse what I’m going to attain next’.

“I might presumably peek the touchdown filling with sizzling steam and I knew he wished to hurt me.

“At one level he even bought a knife from the kitchen and threatened to slice my face originate so ‘nobody would want to switch searching at me’.”

Grace managed to distract Harrison whereas she climbed thru a small window to earn away.

She acknowledged: “I knew I had to earn out of the residence. I became embarrassed to be bare nonetheless I made it to my car. It became cherish something out of a horror film.”

Grace, who works as a successfully being care assistant at Middlesbrough’s James Cook dinner University Sanatorium, told how she has at closing started to earn her existence aid heading within the correct route, and is now reaching out to other victims to be in contact out.

“I’d never prefer someone to battle thru what I possess performed – I opinion that I became going to die.

“I correct hope by telling my record I will motivate others to repeat the police and earn justice.

“I’m self conscious of my scars and as well they are going to never drag away nonetheless it’s miles a small impress to pay for what might presumably possess came about to me.

“Other folks want to know that no matter how sorry someone is or how worthy they treasure you, these folks will never change.

“I’m lucky I bought away as soon as I did as I potentially wouldn’t be right here to repeat my record as of late.”