He even had boiling poured over his groin and was also bludgeoned with a bar, hit with a hammer and smashed in the face with a phone during the abusive relationship.
Michelle Williamson is now out of jailed after serving seven years for domestic violence
Ian McNicholl was 49-year-old UK businessman when he met Michelle Williamson, 34. From their chance meeting at a local train station he went on to live a year and half, in pure misery and agony. He racked up a string of injuries which includes cracked ribs, a fractured skull, broken cheekbones and a smashed nose enduring 18 months of abuse while living with his partner, Michelle Williamson.
The petite, 5ft 1in Michelle Williamson, beat her businessman boyfriend so severely that he almost lost his arm and will need cosmetic surgery to heal his horrific scars.
Ian Nicholl felt trapped in a living nightmare and had the bruises to show for it
Now at 54, McNicholl is a spokesman for an anti-domestic abuse campaign, he said his partner never showed any remorse over the abuse: “There was never any remorse. She’d do it, then send me out for cigarettes, she definitely got off on it.”
During one memorable incident, she even hit him with a vacuum cleaner when he refused to tell her the sexual details of a previous relationship, he said: ‘She began ranting and raving about previous partners of mine.
‘Then, all of a sudden, she switched the vacuum cleaner off, grabbed the nozzle and whacked me across the face with it. I could feel my cheek split.’
Williamson has since jailed for seven years for the string of attacks.
Ian McNicholl who works to raise awareness around domestic violence even had cigarettes stubbed out on his chest. He warns that abusers never quit the behavior
According to Nicholls, the irrational behavior started four months after they hooked up following a chance meeting at Birmingham train Station. He was there working as a training adviser.
The violence then escalated over 18 months, while the pair were living in. Ian, who lived in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, said the abuse was often sparked by him refusing to have sex with his partner.
He said: “She’d rant ‘You don’t love me enough, you have five minutes to be ready for sex’.
“That, of course, is the last thing on your mind. Then she’d say ‘You now have four minutes, three minutes…
“At the end of five minutes she’d blocked out what she had done.”
His ordeal only ended after a neighbor alerted the authorities following a pattern of violence that saw Ian struck with a phone, a metal bar from a rowing machine and a hammer. Recounting the horrific incidents, he said he had a magnum of Champagne smashed across his knees, cigarettes stubbed out on his chest and shoved into his nose. He was scalded with boiling water twice and branded between the shoulder blades with a pressing iron in the course of 18 months.
Williamson was convicted for causing grievous bodily harm. She served a seven-year prison sentence and is now free.
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