Kiena Dawes' brutal abuser raps about her death and swigs prosecco in sick video
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Twisted Ryan Wellings posted a sick video blaming Kiena Dawes' mum for her daughter’s death within an hour of leaving the police station after being charged with manslaughter. The footage shows Wellings, 30, wearing sunglasses and singing in the passenger seat of a car “I’m driving around with a bottle of prosecco”. With loud music blaring in the background and holding the bottle up to the camera he rants: “I was told off an hour ago on a manslaughter charge. It’s all f***ing s**t.”.
He then growls: “[Kiena's mum] you’d better take the blame for abandoning your daughter and going off to Greece you f***ing slag”. Wellings was arrested after hairdresser Kiena, 23, took her own life after two years of domestic abuse and violence.
She left their eight-month-old daughter with a friend before driving to a nearby railway line in July 2022. Hairdresser Kiena left a suicide note stating “I was murdered” and that Wellings had “killed me”. Wellings was found not guilty of killing Kiena after denying manslaughter, but was convicted of assault and guilty of controlling and coercive behaviour towards her.
During his trial at Preston Crown Court Wellings, a landscape gardener from Bispham, Lancs, told the jury he had recorded and uploaded the video to Facebook. Paul Greaney KC, prosecuting, asked him: “You uploaded it on purpose to intimidate the Dawes family and show them who is boss.”.
Welling claimed; “I did not know what I was doing. I know I did wrong and did some stupid things. That’s me hurting. Being blamed for killing my kid’s mum, the woman I loved.” He said he was sleep deprived and had downed prosecco and taken drugs. He said he uploaded it by accident and later deleted it.
