Gemma Willis, 32, of Teesside, told how vile Richard Ridley, 29, once sliced her neck with a garden trowel, beat her until she became unconscious and smothered her entire body and hair in salad cream during his delusional attacks.
The jealous thug would also subject her to perverse examinations to check she hadn't been with another man and threatened to kill her and her family if she left him.
In June, Ridley appeared before Teesside Crown Court where he admitted two sexual assaults, two common assaults, two counts of criminal damage and one of affray.
He was jailed for 13-and-a-half years. Now Gemma has shared her story to encourage other abuse victims to come forward.
Gemma met Ridley in September 2014, after exchanging letters with him while he was in prison.
She explained: "I had been single quite a while when my friend suggested writing to Richard.
"He was a friend of hers who had got locked up for a few months for an assault, but she assured me he was actually a lovely lad.
"I wasn't convinced, but I also think you should give people a chance, and through our letters I was pleasantly surprised by how thoughtful and kind he seemed to be.
"I was already falling for him before I met him, but once I had there was no doubt at all in my mind that Richard was a lovable rogue with a good heart."
The couple enjoyed a whirlwind romance, with Ridley, a plasterer, moving in within a few months, but Gemma became concerned when he made little effort to find work.
She told how the romance quickly faded when his mates started coming round her house.
Gemma recalled: "I didn't like them and I didn't like the way he was around them, he was like a different man and I was certain they were giving him drugs, which I confronted him about and he denied."
Then one night in November 2014 Ridley came home after a night out and launched a vicious attack.
Gemma explained: "The look of rage on his face as he came in was terrifying. He screamed in my face that I'd had another man and called me a whore."
She told how Ridley then marched her outside into the snowy garden and pulled off her clothes until she was naked and shivering.
Gemma recalled: "He said, 'I'm going to check you haven't been with a man'. Then to my horror he thrust his fingers inside me in some kind of sickening internal examination.
Early in 2016 he beat her mercilessly when she refused to confess to an affair.
She recalled: "He grabbed a garden trowel and said 'I'll cut your head off,' thrusting it into the side of my neck.
"Immediately blood began to pour from the gash. Angered by my screams Richard used all his mighty strength to push me straight through the glass pane of the back door.
"He refused to let me go to hospital, picking the pieces of glass out of my back himself, telling me, 'These are the things you are making me do to you'."
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The jealous thug would also subject her to perverse examinations to check she hadn't been with another man and threatened to kill her and her family if she left him.
In June, Ridley appeared before Teesside Crown Court where he admitted two sexual assaults, two common assaults, two counts of criminal damage and one of affray.
He was jailed for 13-and-a-half years. Now Gemma has shared her story to encourage other abuse victims to come forward.
Gemma met Ridley in September 2014, after exchanging letters with him while he was in prison.
She explained: "I had been single quite a while when my friend suggested writing to Richard.
"He was a friend of hers who had got locked up for a few months for an assault, but she assured me he was actually a lovely lad.
"I wasn't convinced, but I also think you should give people a chance, and through our letters I was pleasantly surprised by how thoughtful and kind he seemed to be.
"I was already falling for him before I met him, but once I had there was no doubt at all in my mind that Richard was a lovable rogue with a good heart."
The couple enjoyed a whirlwind romance, with Ridley, a plasterer, moving in within a few months, but Gemma became concerned when he made little effort to find work.
She told how the romance quickly faded when his mates started coming round her house.
Gemma recalled: "I didn't like them and I didn't like the way he was around them, he was like a different man and I was certain they were giving him drugs, which I confronted him about and he denied."
Then one night in November 2014 Ridley came home after a night out and launched a vicious attack.
Gemma explained: "The look of rage on his face as he came in was terrifying. He screamed in my face that I'd had another man and called me a whore."
She told how Ridley then marched her outside into the snowy garden and pulled off her clothes until she was naked and shivering.
Gemma recalled: "He said, 'I'm going to check you haven't been with a man'. Then to my horror he thrust his fingers inside me in some kind of sickening internal examination.
Early in 2016 he beat her mercilessly when she refused to confess to an affair.
She recalled: "He grabbed a garden trowel and said 'I'll cut your head off,' thrusting it into the side of my neck.
"Immediately blood began to pour from the gash. Angered by my screams Richard used all his mighty strength to push me straight through the glass pane of the back door.
"He refused to let me go to hospital, picking the pieces of glass out of my back himself, telling me, 'These are the things you are making me do to you'."
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/4439201/womans-paranoid-ex-subjected-her-to-sick-torture/