Mrs Hanson said she was “petrified” when the first incident happened in 2012, around two years after they married, when her husband “went for” her while she was five or six months pregnant with a baby the couple later lost.
The court heard that Mrs Hanson confided in her mother-in-law, Gillian Hanson, who suggested the couple should go to marriage counselling.
Rebecca Hanson told Derby Crown Court on Tuesday that on another occasion her husband, who is accused of hurting and leaving marks on her during 10 years of violence, threatened to burn her with embers from a fire.
Mrs Hanson told the court there was another occasion in May 2021 when her husband “threatened to put burning embers from the fire” on her.
Asked by prosecution barrister Stephen Kemp why she did not call the police after the alleged incidents, Mrs Hanson said: “I always say I’m going to call the police and he knows I never will.
