Husband’s heartbreaking words after wife is jailed for abusing him ‘night after night’ and ‘making his life misery’
Husband’s heartbreaking words after wife is jailed for abusing him ‘night after night’ and ‘making his life misery’
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A CRUEL wife has been jailed for making her husband's life a complete misery through a campaign of violence. Helen Thornton, 45, stabbed him with the sharp point of an electric toothbrush and repeatedly hit him with a rolling pin. The former telephonist, from Grimsby, was also controlling and intimidating, a court heard.
![[Hull Crown Court building.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/hull-crown-court-961271083.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
She repaid his "love and support" in a "most grotesque way" through her sadistic behaviour towards him over a long period of time. Thornton denied two offences of assaulting her husband, causing actual bodily harm, and another of controlling and coercive behaviour.
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She was convicted after a trial at Grimsby Crown Court that finished on November 29. She had been remanded in custody since well before the trial after repeatedly breaching her bail. Judge John Thackray KC told a sentencing hearing at Hull Crown Court about Thornton "instilling fear" in her husband.
"You made his life a misery," said Judge Thackray. Thornton's husband would suffer abuse and attacks "almost night after night". On one occasion in 2018 the police were called about an assault and a stabbing matter but he declined to take the matter further.
That incident involved Thornton stabbing him with the metal and sharp point of an electric toothbrush causing at least one puncture wound. In February last year she repeatedly attacked her husband with a rolling pin causing serious bruising to him. Thornton threatened to report him for matters that could have damaged him in his job.
