CALLUM O’MARAH, BETHESDA, GWYNEDD, WALES Controlling man left woman ‘screaming’…

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Controlling man left woman ‘screaming’ and in a ‘cold sweat’ as she feared he would kill her
Callum O’Marah was jailed for controlling and coercive behaviour, intentional strangulation and threatening to share an intimate photograph

A controlling man has been jailed after assaulting a woman leaving her suffering from nightmares where she feared she would be killed. Callum O’Marah from Bethesda, Gwynedd, grabbed her hair, punched her repeatedly and timed how long she was on the phone.

The 28-year-old admitted coercive and controlling behaviour, two counts of intentional strangulation and threatening to share an intimate photograph – all offences against the same woman. A judge at Caernarfon Crown Court today called them nasty offences.

He jailed O’Marah for for a total of three years and nine months in total, after activating part of a suspended sentence from a previous offence. He also imposed a 10-year restraining order prohibiting him from contacting the woman

Prosecutor Laura Knightly said the offences, took place over several months. She said the defendant timed the woman’s phone calls saying she had “five minutes”, grabbed her hair, punched her and strangled her twice during a series of assaults.

Ms Knightly also read out a statement from the victim who said after the “worst assault” it took three weeks for her injuries to heal.

Her head hurt, her chest was bruised and her ear “throbbed” after O’Marah bit it. She suffered from nightmares due to fearing the defendant would kill her, she said.

She would wake up “screaming” and in a “cold sweat”. She has become “overly paranoid” and wants to move away from North Wales for a better future.

Ryan Rothwell, defending, said his client did not act in a controlling way “for the sake of it”. His “serious” issues are born out of the fact that he was assaulted in his past.

His historic trauma has led to a “fear of loss and abandonment” but he is “incredibly remorseful” for his offences. The judge His Honour Timothy Petts said they were repeated and nasty assaults.

He noted O’Marah had been given an eight-month jail term, suspended for 18 months, for assault occasioning actual bodily harm on December 11 last year.

Today he jailed him for three years for coercive and controlling behaviour, 18 months each for the two counts of intentional strangulation, to run concurrently to the three-year term, three months for threatening to share an intimate photograph, and activated six months imprisonment for breaching the terms of the suspended sentence, making a total of three years and nine months.