Life Sentence For Man Who Gouged Girlfriend’s Eyes Out During Argument

**Marv** · April 13th, 2012, 04:45 PM

http://web.orange.co.uk/article/news...t_lover_s_eyes

A mother-of-two whose eyes were gouged out by her lover has said he "robbed me of one of the most precious things in life".

Tina Nash was left completely blind after the "premeditated, sustained and vicious attack" last year.

Shane Jenkin, 33, from Hayle in Cornwall, has admitted GBH with intent at Truro Crown Court. He will be sentenced next month.

Ms Nash, who also suffered a broken jaw and nose in the attack, said in a statement afterwards she was glad he had "at least taken responsibility for changing my life forever".

The 31-year-old mother-of-two said: "I truly feel that, when he was strangling me, he was trying to murder me.

"He has taken everything from me and robbed me of one of the most precious things in life - my sight.
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"I actually look forward to going to sleep because in my dreams I have sight. It's when I wake up that the truth hits home," she said.

"Some days I just don't want to get up but I'm determined to provide a future for my children and this is my motivation."

Jenkin, who has the word "outlaw" tattooed on his forearm, is said by the people who know him to have an explosive, unpredictable temper.
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One barman who asked to remain anonymous said: "What he did to Tina he tried to do to other people - I know someone else he had a fight with and tried to do that to him but he was 6ft 4in and could defend himself.

"He could just turn and go from being nice and polite and jovial then bang, it was like flicking a switch. I saw it on several occasions.
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"Our view is that Jenkin deliberately strangled Tina into a state of unconsciousness in order that he could inflict these terrible injuries," he said.

"Tina's life will never be the same and her lifelong disability will be a constant reminder of the attack.

"Her injuries were so shocking that friends who saw her soon after the incident found it difficult to stay in the room.

"Tina has displayed incredible strength, however, and has shown great desire to be able to care for her two children despite not being able to see them as they grow up.

**Obsolete** · April 13th, 2012, 05:33 PM

"Tina has displayed incredible strength, however, and has shown great desire to be able to care for her two children despite not being able to see them as they grow up.

There's an app for that.

**Marv** · May 11th, 2012, 08:15 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-17701804

A man from Cornwall who blinded his girlfriend by gouging her eyes has been jailed for life.

Shane Jenkin, 33, of Sea Lane, Hayle, admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent regarding the attack on Tina Nash, 31, on 20 April 2011.

Jenkin had watched a DVD featuring eye gouging the night before the attack, Truro Crown Court heard.
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The minimum term was fixed for six years and the judge also made a "hybrid order" that Jenkin should be detained at a secure psychiatric hospital.

Ms Nash sat in the public gallery but Jenkin refused to attend court.

I hope someone shanks him in the eyes.

**Hclone** · May 11th, 2012, 08:46 AM

Feel sad for her...but such folks are never remain unpunished and sooner and later they also have to face such brutal situation.

**Dakota Valkyrie** · May 11th, 2012, 05:18 PM

Tina Nash, 32, was subjected to a harrowing 12-hour onslaught at the hands of her raging lover Shane Jenkin.

He was today jailed indefinitely for what the judge said was a "truly terrible crime".

He throttled her until she was unconscious and then gouged her eyes out with his fingers and left her with horrific facial injuries including a fractured nose and jaw.

After the crime she spoke of her despair at not seeing her two children ever again and said she felt like a "ghost" and wished she was not alive.

But a year on she said she feels much "stronger" and is moving on with her life.

"I feel stronger, a lot stronger," she said.

"I was in a dark place back then. I don't feel as low as I did then. I just thought I cannot do this any more. I have to get on with my life.

"I am surviving. I am getting on with it. You only get one life and I am not going to let him ruin it."
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After the attack her face was so horrifically injured that friends could not bear to be in the same room as her.

Miss Nash, whose two sons are aged 14 and four, had to undergo several operations on her head and face during four weeks of hospital treatment but surgeons couldn't save her eyes.
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She said she no longer felt anger towards him.

"I don't feel anything towards him," she told the BBC.

"Because that is a feeling and I don't to have any feelings towards him. I don't want to waste my time. He never existed."
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...ng-attack.html

**Killroy** · May 14th, 2012, 09:30 AM

Hayle, England - A British man received a life sentence for an attack during which he gouged out the eyeballs of his then-girlfriend – a mother-of-two. The man did not allow the woman to call for help for 12 hours after inflicting the injuries. *She is now blind.
Shane Jenkin, 33, of Hayle in Cornwall, reportedly attacked Tina Nash, 32, while she slept at her home in April 2011. Nash, 31, testified that she awoke to find Jenkin on top of her and strangling her. She lost consciousness as a result. During the attack – in addition to her eyes being gouged out – Jenkin broke her jaw and nose.
The court was told that Jenkin then*waited 12 hours before allowing Nash to call for help.
Nash testified that after attacking her – during those 12 short hours that she remained blinded, broken, and bloodied, of course – Jenkin told her, “It’s all your fault. I’m going to get 20 years for this. You’re blind and your kids grow up. It’s all your fault.”
A surprise attack? Not exactly… The six-foot-four Jenkin had, in fact, attacked Nash nine other times in the year before the attack. Nash – the mother of a 4- and 14-year-old – acknowledged that she had helped in his release from jail for previous offenses.…

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**carolinablue** · May 14th, 2012, 10:50 AM

Does a life sentence in England really mean life or life with parole possible after 20 years? The lady gets a life sentence of blindness, he should stay in prison for life.

**Tundratot** · May 14th, 2012, 11:40 AM

Tina has displayed incredible strength, however, and has shown great desire to be able to care for her two children despite not being able to see them as they grow up.

That is the stupidest conclusion the journalist could have come to.

After the attack her face was so horrifically injured that friends could not bear to be in the same room as her.

Wow, squeamish or vapid? Maybe they fall into the same category as people who won't visit friends in the hospital because they just don't like hospitals and don't have anything meaningful to say. . . .

**Abroad** · May 14th, 2012, 01:51 PM

"[...] You only get one life and I am not going to let him ruin it."

"I don't feel anything towards him," she told the BBC.

"Because that is a feeling and I don't to have any feelings towards him. I don't want to waste my time. He never existed."

Good for her! I wish her the very best.

With that attitude, she has every chance of making a life for herself and her kids.