'I knew my ex was controlling but I never expected he'd hold me hostage with a gun'
ok.co.ukTonight ITV weather presenter Ruth Dodsworth shares her harrowing experience of domestic abuse in a powerful documentary. The broadcaster and her children were subject to years of coercive control at the hands of her ex-husband who, last year, was sentenced to three years in prison for his crimes.
As Ruth details her abuse marriage in Controlled By My Partner? The Hidden Abuse, we meet a mum-of-four who suffered through a very similar story.
Mum-of-four Rhianon Bragg, 48, recalls how, during one terrifying night in a remote Welsh village, she believed she would be murdered by her controlling ex-boyfriend, mechanic Gareth Wyn Jones... "As I returned to my house on a summer evening, a camouflaged figure leapt out, pointing a shotgun at my chest.Terrified, I knew immediately who it was: my ex, Gareth.
He had waged a campaign of terror against me for four months following the end of a five-year coercive, controlling relationship.
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