When you will choose right
Oh dear, young lady narrates her ordeal in the
hands of a monstrous boyfriend, she talked
about how she was trapped, tortured and beaten
by her violent ex-boyfriend in a two-and-a-half
year ordeal, which saw her forced to act as his
'slave'.
23years old Holly Jordan, from St. Helen's,
Merseyside, was regularly beaten, verbally
abused and spat on by her partner, Michael
Quinn, 25. He even shaved her hair off at one
point, in what Holly believes was an attempt to
'dehumanise' her and subject her to ritual
humiliation.
Quinn would treat her as his slave, forcing her
to make him food, hand in her phone, and even
accompany him to the toilet while crawling on
her hands and knees.
He even ordered her to call him 'Dominus', after
the slavemaster character in the film Spartacus.
He was finally arrested when Holly managed to
escape him following a violent beating, fleeing
his flat when Quinn left the room to get
cigarettes.
Holly, who met jobless Quinn in 2012, said: 'I'd
just come out of a five-year relationship and
wasn't interested in romance but Michael made
it clear he was interested in me.'
Quinn was persistent and the pair eventually
became a couple. Although Holly was initially
happy with the relationship, things soon turned
sour.
'What I'd mistaken for attentiveness became
possessive and controlling.' She said.
While she worked 90-hour weeks in a café, Quinn
who had been signed off sick after injuring his
hand, slept all day and played video games at
night.
He'd often beg Holly to stay up with him when
she was exhausted after working a long shift.
One night, he shook her awake at 2am and
ordered her to make him eggs and soldiers.
When she initially refused, he dragged her out of
bed and forced her.
It was just the first in a series of increasingly
aggressive incidents where Quinn would attempt
to assert his authority over Holly.
When she fell asleep on the sofa one night, too
tired to make him a cup of tea, Quinn hit her.
'After that, Michael would wake me at all hours
of the night, asking for food or drink to be
prepared,’ Holly recalled. ‘If I refused, he beat
me.'
Soon, too exhausted to go to work, Holly was
forced to quit her job and give up her flat,
moving in with Quinn.
'I was at Michael's mercy 24/7.' She said. 'The
minute that door shut behind me, I felt trapped.'
One night, watching Quinn's favourite film,
Spartacus, he announced that Holly was to call
him 'Dominus' from then on, after the evil
slavemaster.
'By then, living in Michael's house, with no job,
I'd become entrenched in Michael's world.' Holly
explained. 'I'd lost my identity and all sense of
myself. I fell into his routine and became
consumed by his reality. Michael wasn't my
boyfriend, he was my owner. He was Dominus,
and I was his slave.'
After a while, Quinn stopped her from leaving the
house altogether and even took her phone away
so that she couldn't contact police. One day, he
ordered Holly to get down on her knees and
carry him to the toilet.
'I didn't think I could sink any lower.' Holly said.
'I couldn't believe it had come to this. I'd been
happy, carefree and bubbly – now, I was broken.
I was too ashamed to tell anyone and besides,
Michael had taken my phone away from me,
isolating me from friends and family.'
Later on, Quinn completed his campaign of
humiliation by cutting off her hair with a pair of
clippers.
'It was as though I was a slave and he was my
master.' Holly said. 'The monster was
dehumanising me.'
Months later, Holly attempted to leave but Quinn
bombarded her with 90 calls in 10 minutes and
sent thousands of messages.
When he started making threats to Holly and her
family, she felt she had no choice but to return.
'When I went back, he told me that I was his
and that I'd never get away from him.' She
recalled. 'I'd never felt so helpless or so alone.
But I still longed to escape him.'
When she got a new job in a care home, her
confidence began to return and she made up her
mind to leave Quinn for good.
She plotted her escape, saving up her wages and
finding a new place to live behind Quinn's back.
'I decided I wasn't going to do a runner and just
slip away, Michael would only drag me back.'
She said. 'I wanted to stand my ground. I
wanted Michael to know he hadn’t broken me.'
But when she confronted Quinn in December
2013 he flew into a rage, savagely beating her
with a baseball bat and shower pole, shattering
the bones in her left hand.
After her pleas, he eventually went into his room
to get a cigarette. At that point, Holly saw her
chance and fled to the nearest hospital where
she received medical care and alerted police.
Quinn was arrested, but continued to harass
Holly. In August this year he appeared at
Liverpool Crown Court where he was jailed for
five years for grievous bodily harm, three
assaults and perverting the course of justice.
'He pleaded guilty so I wasn’t in court to see
him sent down.' Holly said. 'I didn't even want
to hear his voice.'
Holly later learned that Judge Andrew Hatton
told Quinn: 'You considered yourself
untouchable. You made her call you "Dominus"
because you were in charge. Perhaps you had
been. You no longer are.'
Holly added: 'I'm still having counselling but I'm
hopeful for the future.
'I'm free of that monster's shackles. Now he's
the one in jail, where he belongs.'
The goat head
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