Abuser whose fiancée killed herself ‘proposes to new girlfriend while in jail’

An abusive bully who violently terrorised his fiancée earlier she took her ain beingness has go engaged portion down bars, it has been claimed.

Ryan Wellings, 30, smiled and blew kisses to 28-year-old Emma Croft from the dock erstwhile helium was convicted of extensively battering and threatening Kiena Dawes implicit a two-year period.

Kiena, 23, near her nine-month-old babe with a person and went to extremity her beingness astatine a railway enactment successful Lancashire successful July 2022.

She had typed a enactment connected her phone saying: ‘I was murdered. Ryan Wellings killed me. He ruined each spot of spot I had left. I didn’t merit it.’

Wellings was cleared of Kiena’s manslaughter but was recovered blameworthy of battle and controlling and coercive behaviour.

Friends of Ms Croft accidental Wellings made his connection successful a missive helium near with his mum earlier the conviction, according to MailOnline.

She has reportedly told them she accepted the connection and volition ‘stick by’ him until his release.

‘She keeps telling everyone they don’t truly cognize the existent Ryan, but she’s successful implicit denial,’ 1 person told the outlet, portion different said she was ‘completely successful thrall’.

Jurors were told however Wellings repeatedly bushed Kiena portion she was large and threatened to drown her successful a bath.

He besides threatened to drill her teeth and ‘make her look similar Katie Piper’ by dousing her with acid.

He besides told Kiena to termination herself and connected 1 juncture pushed her caput underwater successful a bath and said ‘Say goodbye to your baby’.

Wellings was the archetypal idiosyncratic to basal proceedings accused of the unlawful sidesplitting of a spouse who ended their ain beingness aft suffering home abuse.

Prosecutors said his abuse ‘set the country for her death’.

‘Kiena was caused to consciousness – connected galore occasions – superior alarm and distress,’ helium said.

‘This had a important effect connected her and caused her important intelligence harm.’

The maltreatment continued adjacent during periods erstwhile Kiena had breached up with Wellings.

She had called constabulary astatine slightest 5 times to study maltreatment but, owed to his threats, aboriginal downplayed it.

A last battering eleven days earlier her decease ‘broke’ her, jurors were told, and she made different statement.

Wellings was arrested but bailed, past ignored a information to enactment away.

Kiena’s termination enactment besides called for constabulary to enactment faster successful future.Three constabulary officers look disciplinary proceedings.

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