A ‘vile’ domestic abuser who made his former partner feel like a ‘punching bag’ and left her in such distress she attempted to take her own life is beginning a prison sentence. The Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC, told defendant Barry Prest, aged 42, that the second of the two attacks upon his former partner, both of which were carried out in a ‘domestic context’ four months apart, was ‘exceptionally serious’. He continued: “You shouted at her, you snapped at her, you then... Read this story
