A YOUNG mum has revealed the terrifying maltreatment she endured for 5 years astatine the hands of her TikTok influencer woman aft she secretly filmed her during a brutal attack.
Lauren Javens, 22, believed she was filming her ain decease arsenic she captured Hollie Hanson spitting vile decease threats arsenic she strangled her.
But the enactment of bravery resulted successful the influencer being caged for the years of torment she'd inflicted - including mounting Lauren connected occurrence and smashing vodka bottles implicit her head.
Hanson, a social media prima who has racked up hundreds of thousands of views, was jailed past period aft admitting to controlling and coercive behaviour, threats to termination and battle by beating.
Speaking astir her horrific ordeal for the archetypal time, Lauren told The Sun: “I privation different radical to cognize that determination is airy astatine the extremity of the tunnel.
“For 5 years Hollie convinced maine that she was the lone idiosyncratic that volition ever emotion maine successful this world. But truly that was manipulation.
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“She was conscionable abusing maine each along. The idiosyncratic I loved was my abuser.
“If by speaking retired I tin assistance conscionable 1 much person, past it is worthy it."
Hanson, 26, subjected Lauren to a brutal run of carnal and affectional torment which began soon aft the brace archetypal met successful 2019.
Lauren was conscionable 17 erstwhile 20-year-old Hollie banned her from utilizing her phone, monitored her usage of societal media and stopped her from seeing friends and family.
Recounting her ordeal, Lauren said: “We got unneurotic consecutive away, arsenic soon arsenic we met.
“I’d conscionable turned 17, and she was my archetypal love. I’d ever wanted to beryllium with her – she was rather well-known to radical I knew, truthful I was caput implicit heels erstwhile we got together.
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“I conscionable thought she couldn't bash thing wrong. Then she started changing erstwhile we moved successful together.
“When she’d had a drink, she’d reason with maine implicit irrelevant things. I ne'er argued backmost due to the fact that I thought it was conscionable the drink.”
Hollie’s request for power rapidly became evident - Lauren was told that the mates would stock conscionable 1 phone.
She was told she couldn’t person her ain societal media illustration and was ordered to manus implicit each her passwords.
She destroyed each transportation I had – I was pregnant, alone, and wholly babelike connected her.
Lauren Javens
Lauren said: “This was 3 months into the relationship. I thought that’s what I needed to bash to reassure her.
"Looking back, they were the archetypal steps to controlling each portion of my life.
“But I was truthful young and truthful successful emotion with her astatine this constituent I couldn’t spot it.”
Lauren described however Hollie rapidly isolated her from household and friends, making her artifact their numbers and cutting her disconnected completely.
When Hanson was jailed for driving offences successful 2020, Lauren fell large successful a short-lived relationship.
The brace reconnected upon her merchandise from jailhouse with Hollie soon breaking her committedness of a caller commencement for the couple.
Lauren said: “She didn’t similar that I had a kid with idiosyncratic else. The thought of my babe having a dada made her sick.
“She destroyed each transportation I had – I was pregnant, alone, and wholly babelike connected her.
“She spent my gestation telling maine I shouldn’t person the baby.
“She was ever jealous and adjacent erstwhile I was giving commencement she was whispering successful my receptor ‘if this kid looks similar his dada I'm leaving you’.
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL TORTURE
One of the astir shocking incidents came soon aft Lauren’s lad Enzo was calved successful 2021.
She said: “When helium was 2 weeks old, she burnt everything helium owned.
“She threw it each successful a occurrence bin successful the plot – everything was gone. Every azygous happening helium owned.”
The carnal maltreatment sustained by Lauren saw her punched, beaten and adjacent wounded.
In January 2020, Hanson assaulted Lauren with a vodka bottle, knocking her unconscious earlier slashing astatine her leg.
Too frightened to study the incident, Lauren told medics astatine infirmary that she had accidentally chopped herself connected a shard of glass.
Lauren said: “She knocked maine cleanable out.
“When I came to, she was holding maine successful her arms, but I had 4 gashes connected my legs from wherever she’d attacked maine portion I was unconscious.
“I thought if I told the doctors what truly happened past I’d person obscurity to unrecorded – I relied connected her for everything.”
In different incident, Hanson poured a jerry tin of substance connected Lauren earlier mounting it alight with a cigarette, causing her thigh-high boots to drawback fire.
Lauren recalled: “She threw the past spot of her cigarette, and it deed the substance and determination were conscionable flames up my legs.
“I managed to enactment them retired but the boots virtually melted to my legs.
"Luckily I had jeans connected underneath and not conscionable bare skin, due to the fact that I'd decidedly person scarring aft that.”
The maltreatment wasn’t constricted to carnal violence.
Hollie destroyed Lauren’s belongings successful fits of rage, cutting up her apparel and smashing her makeup.
On different occassion, Hanson hurled an aerial fryer crossed the room due to the fact that the Mexican chickenhearted crockery Lauren was cooking for meal was not what she wanted to eat.
She threw the past spot of her cigarette, and it deed the substance and determination were conscionable flames up my legs.
Lauren
“Then she punched maine successful the look - 1 blow. I archer you, I had the 2 biggest achromatic eyes you've ever seen successful your life,” said Lauren.
“She adjacent refused to fto maine into the level sometimes. I’d person to locomotion the streets until she fto maine backmost in.”
Lauren revealed the intelligence toll the narration took connected her. “She made maine judge I needed her for everything - money, a roof, everything.
“She convinced maine I was the occupation for truthful long. I couldn’t header without her, and she loved that. She knew I’d ever spell back.”
The breaking constituent came successful September past twelvemonth during a terrifying incidental successful which Hollie strangled Lauren portion demanding to cognize who she had been texting.
By this point, Lauren was actively looking to permission the relationship.
She said: “I wholly fell retired of emotion with her. She was conscionable horrible, she made maine depressed, and I knew that she was the occupation astatine this point.
“She'd convinced maine I was the occupation for truthful long. I got to a constituent wherever I knew that she was the problem.
“I gained interaction with my household again, and she hated that, but I refused to springiness that up.
“I didn't trust connected her for thing anymore.”
LIFE-CHANGING MOMENT
Fearing for her beingness arsenic Hollie charged towards her, Lauren reached for her telephone and utilized musculus representation to unlock the instrumentality and grounds the attack.
She said: “She had her hands astir my throat, lone letting maine respire each fewer seconds.
"She said, ‘If you don’t archer me, I’m going to termination you. I’d alternatively termination you than fto you beryllium with anyone else.’ I genuinely thought I was going to die.
“I thought if I dice now, idiosyncratic has to cognize what happened. I genuinely thought I was filming my ain death.
“I could spot thing had switched successful her eyes this clip compared to each different onslaught that she'd ever done.
“I conscionable knew that this clip was different,” she added.
Hollie deleted the video from Lauren’s phone, but Lauren had already sent it to her aunt, who kept it arsenic evidence.
The Sun has seen the harrowing footage but has chosen not to amusement it.
After enduring 5 years of abuse, Lauren yet escaped.
Hollie was aboriginal connected the tally for 18 days, posting videos connected TikTok portion hiding retired astatine strangers’ houses earlier posting connected the level that she would manus herself in.
Now successful a steadfast narration with her roofer spouse James Javens, 29, Lauren is rebuilding her beingness and revealed she is large with her 2nd child.
She said: “I'm amended present but it inactive haunts maine each day. Five years of my beingness person conscionable gone and I’ll ne'er get that clip back.
“I consciousness similar I was kept captive for 5 years. “If I were to spot idiosyncratic I knew successful the thoroughfare oregon successful a supermarket and adjacent looked successful their direction, she would flip.
“She'd shriek successful beforehand of them. Honestly, it was conscionable embarrassing. But I conscionable enactment my caput down and conscionable walked on.
“Hollie would committedness to change, and I believed her each azygous clip due to the fact that I wanted her to emotion me.
“Looking backmost now, I wasn’t loved, it was conscionable manipulation.
“I couldn't physically header without her astatine all, but she loved that, truthful she knew that I'd spell backmost to her successful a heartbeat.
“My narration with James is truthful healthy. He treats maine similar a princess and I cognize helium volition ne'er wounded me.
“We've got our ain location unneurotic truthful I’ve got stableness which is thing I’ve ne'er had."
MONSTER JAILED
Hanson was jailed for 4 years astatine Leeds Crown Court aft admitting controlling and coercive behaviour, wounding without intent, intentional strangulation, threats to termination and battle by beating.
Judge Mushtaq Khokhar told Hanson: “You banned her from societal media. You controlled her financially. You controlled her interaction with her ain child.
“You were truthful possessive and obsessed with her, and controlling, that connected 1 juncture you burned her child's clothing.
“On different occasion, you had poured a jerry tin of substance implicit her assemblage and past you had thrown the cigaret to go alight.
“Mercifully, nary wounded was sustained from it but it could person been worse than it was."
Describing Hanson arsenic a "dangerous offender", Judge Khokhar said: "It was a horrendous acquisition to acquisition astatine the hands of idiosyncratic you deliberation you love."
He added: "In my judgment, there's thing worse than controlling someone's emotions, their movements and besides preventing idiosyncratic from associating with radical that idiosyncratic wants to subordinate with.
“This behaviour consisted of controlling who she had interaction with, who she could conscionable and who she could not meet. She had to study to you arsenic to wherever she was astatine immoderate fixed time. She could not usage her telephone astatine times without your permission."
The tribunal heard that Hanson has applied for a sex designation certificate portion connected remand astatine HMP New Hall women's prison.
She present wants to beryllium known arsenic Ryder Hanson with the pronouns 'he/him' and 'they/them'.
Hanson was handed a beingness restraining bid to support distant from Lauren.