Cruel wife made husband's life a misery in campaign of abuse
Hull Crown Court heard her husband would suffer abuse and attacks "almost night after night"
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A cruel wife made her loving and caring husband's life a complete misery through a nasty campaign of violence, including stabbing him with the sharp point of an electric toothbrush and repeatedly hitting him with a rolling pin.
Former telephonist Helen Thornton was controlling and intimidating and she repaid his "love and support" in a "most grotesque way" through her sadistic behaviour towards him over a long period of time, a court heard.
Thornton, 45, denied two offences of assaulting her husband, causing actual bodily harm, and another of controlling and coercive behaviour. She was convicted after a trial that finished on November 29. She had been remanded in custody since well before the trial after repeatedly breaching her bail.
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Judge John Thackray KC told a sentencing hearing at Hull Crown Court that the controlling and coercive behaviour matter involved Thornton, , of Emfield Road, Grimsby, "instilling fear" in her husband that violence would be used against him. This happened on at least two occasions between 2016 and last year,
"You made his life a misery and it's not less serious because it was committed in a domestic setting, it's more serious because it involved a breach of trust," said Judge Thackray. "Your husband was entitled to feel safe and secure in his home and in the company of his wife."
Thornton's husband would suffer abuse and attacks "almost night after night". On one occasion, in 2018, the police were called about an assault and a stabbing matter but he declined to take the matter further.
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