A man has been described as ‘pure evil’ and jailed after an ‘appalling’ campaign of coercive and controlling behaviour against his partner which ‘absolutely destroyed her life’.
Marc Masterton, 26, abused a woman aged in her 20’s between January 1, 2022, and February 1, 2023. Masterton would routinely control her appearance, assault her, isolate her from friends and family, belittle her, and tell her to take her own life.
The abuse was carried out all over the county, with assaults taking place in hotels and hostels and on public transport and on one occasion, at Masterton’s address in Southsea, the victim threatened to kill herself after he assaulted her with a dumbbell. In response, Masterton handed her a knife and ordered her to harm herself.
On 1 February this year she took her own life.