I was strangled, bitten and burned with cigarettes over three days of hell by my evil boxer lover – and my injuries were so horrific the police couldn’t tell my skin colour
Sian Davies was whipped, punched and burned by Dennis Ross during the vile attack
A MUM-OF-TWO has bravely revealed how her boxer ex-boyfriend beat her so viciously that she was left in a coma for nine days and has been scarred for life.
Sian Davies, 33, from Newport, South Wales, was whipped, punched and burned by Dennis Ross, 33, during the vile attack, which lasted for three days in July 2017.
Doctors said that if Sian had been left for another hour, she would have died.
Ross was jailed for a minimum of seven years for attempted murder in December.
Now, Sian is speaking out to encourage other women in abusive relationships to seek help.
She told Fabulous Online: "I’m lucky to be alive. I want to stop other women becoming a statistic like I nearly was.”
According to Women's Aid and the latest figures available, 113 women were killed by men in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2016.
Nine in 10 women killed that year were killed by someone they knew, 78 women were killed by their current or former intimate partner and 65 of those were killed in their own home or the home they shared with the perpetrator," the charity said.
"By collating these femicides together in one report, we can see that these killings are not isolated incidents; too many of them follow a similar pattern of male violence against women.
"Many were committed in similar settings (at the victim’s home or home they shared with the perpetrator), similar weapons were used (sharp instruments), and similar relationships existed between the perpetrators and victims (the majority were killed by a current or former intimate partner)."
- If you are suffering domestic violence - or you know someone who is - call Women's Aid on 0808 2000 247 or visit Women's Aid.
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