Vicious partner slashed girlfriend's face with razor blade

A vicious boyfriend tortured his girlfriend for nine hours, beating her so severely she was left with a perforated lung and unable to walk.

Barry Edwards was jailed for 16 years over the sickening abuse that saw his vulnerable victim slash her own wrists in an attempt to end the pain she suffered at his hands.

Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard how neighbours had been alerted to the abuse after hearing loud banging noises and Edwards shouting he would “break her f***ing spine” before she responded “Don’t Baz, please don’t, I don’t want to die.”

Paul Hodgkinson, prosecuting, said when officers arrived on May 29, 2013, they discovered blood-stained walls and found the victim unable to walk because her legs had been beaten so severely.

Her face had been slashed with razor blades, and several rolls of tape covered in the victim’s blood were recovered, the Manchester Evening News reports.

She claimed her injuries were suffered at the hands of strangers, but later recounted the eight years of abuse she had suffered at his hands.

She told how Edwards, 44, who had changed his name to Damian Hayes and Naughty Rascal previously, began their relationship when he was 36 and she was a teenager.

They had a daughter together shortly afterwards, who was taken into care because they could not care for her.

During their relationship he would force his partner into a cubby hole beneath the stairs in the house on Whitehall Street, Rochdale.

When she crawled out he would throw dumbbells at her, once breaking her arm as she tried to protect herself.

His campaign of violence saw the victim tied up, beaten with a variety of weapons, slashed with blades and repeatedly kicked in the head. He once turned an aerosol can into a makeshift flamethrower to burn her hair and face.

He had tried to gouge her eyeballs out with his thumbs, kicked her down the stairs and once threatened to throw electrical items into the bathtub while she was in it.

During the nine hours of torture she was subjected to he made her stand facing a wall, holding a piece of card against it with her nose. When it fell to the floor he subjected her to another savage beating.

Edwards, of no fixed address, had earlier pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm with intent, two counts of false imprisonment and two counts of threatening to kill.

The court heard Edwards, 44, had been jailed for nine years in 1994 after torturing another girlfriend.

The girl, who he began seeing when she was released from local authority care as a teenager, was regularly beaten with bats and once had a pint glass smashed in her face.

He had attacked her with a vegetable knife, and killed three cats they owned during the course of their relationship.

Judge Mushtaq Khokar said there was a significant risk of reoffending, as the abuse was a carbon copy of the earlier offences.

Sending Edwards down, he said: “I am not surprised she said she wanted to jump out of a window to end it all.”


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