My evil ex battered me to within an inch of my life – but when he was arrested then RELEASED my nightmare got even worse

A WOMAN who was astir killed by her evil ex-boyfriend fears that helium volition travel for her erstwhile helium is released from prison.

Holly Mewis, 29, met Tavien Sutton, 29, successful January this twelvemonth and helium moved into her house wrong 2 weeks successful a whirlwind narration described arsenic "toxic".

Sutton, who Holly described arsenic having a unspeakable drinking problem, subjected her to a bid of convulsive attacks successful the abstraction of conscionable months.

The brutal assaults saw Holly near with terrible injuries including a encephalon bleed, a haemorrhaged oculus socket and a breached nose.

Sutton, of Chapel Lane, Bingley, was jailed astatine Bradford Crown court for 5 and a fractional years aft helium pleaded blameworthy to charges of wounding with intent to origin grievous bodily harm, battle and making a menace to kill.

But the intelligence scars of the trauma person near Holly facing nightmares and “horrible flashbacks” and she is taking tablets for depression and anxiety.

Now, Holly has bravely chosen to talk retired astir the afloat grade of her ordeal successful an exclusive chat with The Sun.

Speaking aft Sutton's sentencing, she said: "He could beryllium retired walking the streets successful 3 and a fractional years time, it's not agelong capable for what he's enactment maine through.

"I don't deliberation they took into information however severely helium attacked me. I consciousness scared, perfectly petrified that helium could beryllium retired truthful soon.

"I dread to deliberation what he's going to bash oregon get idiosyncratic to do. I'm 100 per cent definite he's going to interaction maine and I don't person religion successful the police.

"He is simply a dangerous, cruel antheral and should beryllium kept down bars."

Holly recalled the archetypal clip Sutton attacked her, conscionable weeks aft moving successful with her.

The 29-year-old said that Sutton had asked her to aftermath him up for a Leeds United crippled successful February 2024 but kicked disconnected aft she did this "half an hr excessively early".

She told The Sun: "I was terrified, we had antecedently had verbal arguments but this was a batch worse and helium wholly flipped out.

"Tavien threw a vape astatine maine and it chopped my limb open."

They reconciled and astatine that point, the incidental was not reported to police.

But looking back, Holly recalled the haunting warnings her ex-boyfriend had fixed her earlier the carnal maltreatment started.

She told us: "Tavien had bragged astir beating up his ex and said 'this is what I'm susceptible of, you don't privation maine to bash the aforesaid to you'."

Unfortunately, the archetypal incidental was conscionable a motion of things to travel and the "toxic" and "abusive" narration escalated a period later.

Holly was recovering from a tummy process successful hospital, erstwhile she recovered immoderate messages connected Sutton's telephone readying to conscionable up with an ex-girlfriend.

But erstwhile she confronted him, the sick thug flew into an uncontrollable rage.

Holly said: "He said helium would enactment maine backmost successful infirmary and I'd aftermath up with humor coming retired my ears.

"He past conscionable booted maine successful the rima afloat force, I was dizzy. My rima and chemoreceptor were conscionable pouring with blood.

"I've ne'er adjacent been successful a combat my caput wobbled and I didn't cognize what to do.

"He picked up a TV arsenic if to propulsion it astatine maine earlier picking up a bedside array and launching it astatine my chest.

"I was successful daze but helium picked it up again, luckily it missed maine and deed the partition this time."

Holly fled upstairs to ringing the police, but was forced to bent up arsenic Sutton barged successful and demanded she get disconnected the phone.

Thankfully for Holly, she had her person listening successful connected talker telephone during the full onslaught and the pal had rung the constabulary instantly aft Holly's archetypal telephone ended.

Sutton was arrested soon aft erstwhile officers arrived.

Holly, who was taken to infirmary by paramedics astatine the scene, said: "The apical of my gum had disconnected from my mouth, I was successful unimaginable pain."

Sutton was kept successful cells overnight for questioning but helium was released with bail conditions and things spiralled further from here.

West Yorkshire Police officers told Holly that Sutton needed to travel backmost to prime up immoderate things from the flat they shared including his slope paper and phone.

This was contempt bail conditions indicating Sutton should not interaction her oregon instrumentality to the flat successful Bingley.

However, Holly claims that officers promised her they would beryllium determination astatine each times erstwhile she came to fto Tavien into the property.

Instead, constabulary dropped Sutton disconnected with a frightened Holly earlier leaving the premises soon after, she said.

TRAUMA BOND

Holly recalls: "I was excessively terrified to archer her friends and household astir him being connected bail.

"There was a trauma enslaved and erstwhile helium came backmost helium continued to emotion weaponry maine and I was trapped, I conscionable didn't cognize it truthful I didn't accidental thing and ended up surviving with him again."

At 1 constituent Tavien snuck connected her telephone and utilized the 101 unrecorded chat relation successful an effort to get escaped of immoderate charges and marque Holly look similar she didn't privation to spell up with the prosecution.

Two to 3 weeks later, cops messaged Holly saying the lawsuit had been dropped.

Meanwhile, Holly said Sutton continued to gamble each her money, spending each her wages portion helium was astatine enactment and drinking heavily.

She aboriginal recovered retired that Sutton had to fly his spot and initially moved successful with her arsenic helium had ended up successful terrible debt.

Holly estimates that helium gambled distant astir £1,500 of her wealth during their abbreviated clip together.

Brave Holly continued : "I hated Fridays, I was terrified of them, helium would get paid and past gamble everything by the clip I would aftermath up.

"And past he'd instrumentality it retired connected me. My person warned maine 'one time he's going to termination you helium won't stop'.

"I knew, if I didn't negociate to flight this, I wouldn't get retired of this narration alive.

"But the worldly helium was saying was the close stuff, I believed him. I believed it was an accident. I couldn't person been much wrong."

The 3rd and last onslaught was the astir brutal of each and astir saw Holly suffer her life.

It should person been a blessed occasion, arsenic Holly woke up excited to observe her day with her person connected April 19.

Sutton, was initially going to enactment astatine his occupation arsenic a chef, rang successful sick truthful helium could spell with her arsenic helium didn't privation Holly going retired unsocial with her pal.

Holly recalled however the nighttime was a bully 1 for the archetypal fewer hours, she went retired for drinks with Sutton arsenic good arsenic her person and her partner.

She said: "Everything was good til we returned location and helium started talking astir his ex again.

"I complained and helium conscionable started ranting said astir however ungrateful I was and it each conscionable escalated."

Sutton, who Holly said was drunk astatine this constituent and had besides consumed cocaine, past turned the altercation carnal successful the aboriginal hours of April 20.

Holly said: "He pushed maine onto the furniture and we had a spot of a scuffle. I'd ne'er done thing backmost to him but helium was punching maine repeatedly truthful I kicked a limb retired instinctively and helium was adjacent my feet.

"Tavien past stepped backmost and said his rima was bleeding but determination was perfectly nothing. He stormed disconnected to the bathroom.

"I went to furniture and laic determination with my caput connected the side, it was rather a debased furniture and I conscionable wanted to slumber astatine this point.

"But aft 3 oregon 4 minutes helium came backmost and stamped connected the broadside of my head, truly hard, it was brutal.

"I can't retrieve overmuch but I got level connected my backmost and tried to support myself arsenic helium punched maine successful the caput repeatedly.

"He knocked maine out, helium was connected apical of maine and determination was really a ft people near connected my head. I retrieve reasoning this could beryllium the end."

'PURE EVIL'

Holly recalls however Tavien thought helium had killed her and said she could retrieve him screaming and crying her sanction arsenic helium tried to get her to travel circular astatine astir 2am.

When she did, the twisted abuser simply said: "I conscionable rocked your world."

Holly, who was present successful a blur and feeling dizzy from her injuries, added: "I was pouring with blood, throwing up humor and helium followed maine upstairs to different room.

"I passed retired successful the bathroom, erstwhile I woke up I tried to permission but helium blocked the way,

"I realised I could not unlock the doorway without the cardinal and I had nary hint wherever my telephone oregon thing was."

Sutton past threatened Holly that helium would resistance her backmost upstairs if she tried anything.

"I retrieve his face. He was successful specified a rage. He conscionable looked axenic evil, helium wouldn't stop."

It was astatine this constituent Sutton picked up a weapon and threatened to termination Holly and stab himself successful the face, which helium repeated respective times.

A visibly shaken Holly recalled: "He told maine that lone 1 of america is going to get retired of this alive, and helium came successful with a knife.

"I thought, 'this is truly it now, I'm going to die, my beingness is done'.

"I backed up connected the furniture pleading for my life."

In bid to prevention her life, brave Holly promised Sutton she would enactment and tried everything to calm the enraged thug down and get him to sleep.

She past managed to cod her telephone and keys earlier sneaking extracurricular to telephone for an ambulance which took her to hospital.

'MINUTES FROM DEATH'

Doctors told Holly however she had suffered aggregate encephalon bleeds and if she had fallen dormant she could person easy died.

She besides suffered a breached chemoreceptor and a haemorrhaged oculus socket with the bottommost of her eyes inactive bloodshot months later.

Holly added: "Hearing my injuries being work retired to maine truly frightened me, I could've genuinely mislaid my life.

"I was frightened erstwhile helium did get the weapon retired but the existent onslaught was truthful vicious it astir took my life. I was conscionable minutes from death.

"My girl astir woke up without a mum that day."

Holly has since moved retired of the Bingley home that they concisely shared arsenic it was covered successful bloodstains from his attacks connected her.

Sutton was remanded successful HMP Leeds for 3 months but bombarded her with letters and telephone calls saying helium wanted to wed her.

He continued to marque fake apologies and attempted to manipulate Holly further, adjacent getting the spouse of a cellmate to acquisition her with a puppy.

On 1 juncture Holly confessed to answering the telephone arsenic she was inactive excessively frightened and stressed, lone to find Sutton connected the line.

When the thug answered helium said: "You did this to me, you enactment maine successful prison, you enactment the idiosyncratic you emotion successful prison."

The abuser initially pleaded not blameworthy to charges of wounding, battle occasioning existent bodily harm, and making threats to termination - but changed his plea to blameworthy 5 days earlier the commencement of a trial.

His Honour Judge Ahmed Nadim sentenced Sutton to five-and-a-half years successful situation for wounding positive 18 months for the ABH offences and three-and-a-half years for the threats to kill, each to beryllium served concurrently.

Passing condemnation Judge Nadim said Sutton had conducted himself successful a "most violent, shameful and disgraceful manner" during the relationship.

He said the unfortunate was entitled to beryllium treated with respect and to beryllium protected from harm and told Sutton helium "miserably failed to present that".

He besides imposed an indefinite restraining bid banning Sutton from having immoderate interaction with the victim.

A West Yorkshire Police spokesperson told The Sun: "Police were contacted connected March 13 this twelvemonth by a unfortunate reporting she had been assaulted by a antheral and suffered facial injuries.  

"Officers arrested Tavien Sutton connected suspicion of conception 47 battle soon aft the study was made.   

"Sutton was aboriginal released connected constabulary bail with conditions acceptable not to interaction the unfortunate oregon enactment astatine the victim’s home.   

"We are reviewing our handling of the victim’s study connected March 13  and privation to accent that reducing unit against women remains an implicit precedence for West Yorkshire."