A man who portrayed himself as ‘Prince Charming’ dragged his fiancée by her hair, bit her and broke her ribs in a terrifying campaign of domestic violence.
Jamie Thomas, 30, was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday for inflicting a ‘prolonged and persistent assault’ against his ex-partner Laura Williams.
Horrific injury pictures reveal the extent of Thomas’ sick abuse which was carried out to an ‘appalling extent’, Cardiff Crown Court heard during his trial.
Despite having a history of violence against romantic partners, Ms Williams said that Thomas made himself out to be ‘Prince Charming’ and a ‘good guy’ when they first got together in 2018.
And although she was warned by others about his sick history of domestic abuse, the thug managed to convince her that he had changed his ways.
Laura Williams (pictured) said that he portrayed himself as ‘Prince Charming’ and a ‘good guy’
Jamie Thomas, 30, was sentenced to three years in prison for inflicting a ‘prolonged and persistent assault’
Prosecutors told the court that Laura’s four-and-a-half year relationship had deteriorated by October 2022, but the pair got back together in January 2023
Thomas bit her left breast and laughed when she told him to get off. Her shocking injuries are seen here
But within just eight months, he became jealous and violent, threatening to commit suicide if she thought about leaving him and manipulating her into staying with him.
Prosecutors told the court that Ms Williams’ four-and-a-half year relationship had deteriorated by October 2022, but the pair got back together in January 2023.
But weeks after they got together, he got violent with her when they went away for the night.
As she was undressing, Thomas kept making sexually violent comments about what he wanted to do to her, before trying to act on the comments.
Upon rejecting his violent advances, Thomas bit her left breast and laughed when she told him to get off.
She retreated to the corner of the room, and he ended up falling asleep that night. But in the morning, after seeing that a large bruise had formed, he did not make an apology.
Embarrassed, she did not seek medical attention. The injury has since left a heavy scar.
Just two months later, after she went to his home in Ely, Cardiff, he menacingly told Ms Williams that she ‘was his’ despite the fact that they had broken up at this point, adding that he ‘didn’t want to see her with anyone else.’
An X-Ray revealed he had broken two of her ribs
After she fell asleep in his living room, she woke up to Thomas ‘smashing’ her phone after seeing messages from other man.
He then started ‘ragging’ her off the sofa, before violently grabbing her hair.
He then dragged her into the hallway, and hurled insults at her, calling her ‘fat’, ‘ugly’ and a ‘slag’.
Thomas told her that she was ‘f***ing with [his] head’ as she tried to run upstairs and escape. But she was pulled back down, and he punched her twice in the ribs.
She cried ‘you’ve hurt me’, but he did not apologise.
It was only after she escaped that he apologised via text, telling her he ‘loved her.’
But she was in ‘excruciating pain’ and could not raise her arm. An X-Ray revealed he had broken two of her ribs.
Just a week later, as the pair were out celebrating his birthday, he ‘gripped her hair’ and slapped her across the face causing it to redden and an ear piercing to start bleeding.
He also pushed her down onto the floor, despite knowing she had broken ribs.
Ms Williams says that while she was ‘shaking’ facing Thomas in court
Ms Williams eventually decided to formally report the abuse to the police after being supported by Women’s Aid
She says she has been left with emotional scars and struggles to trust men after the abuse
Ms Williams eventually decided to formally report the abuse to the police after being supported by Women’s Aid when she received treatment for her ribs, and an incident in which he followed her when she was in the car with one of her children.
‘He chased me in the car with my little boy in the car. And I thought I have to go to the police, I can’t put my kids through this. I think he knew he was losing his grip on me. I told him in the end I’d rung the police and he was saying ‘they should lock me up I deserve it.’
She says that while she was ‘shaking’ facing Thomas in court, seeing him mock her as he was sent down made her realise that despite his guilty pleas he has not taken accountability for his crimes. ‘He’s a narcissist through and through. He will never change.
‘When he was in the dock he was laughing at me. And when he got sent down he was laughing at me. That to me is ‘I’m not finished with you, just wait till I get out’. I was just thinking ‘no you have to be strong. He’s controlled you for the best part of your life, you have to do this’, he needs to know what he’s done.
‘I was shaking. I looked at him and he looked at me and I just started crying. I just thought ‘you’ve done all this, you’ve put me through all this.’
She says she has been left with emotional scars and struggles to trust men after the abuse. ‘I have panic attacks regularly, I’ve been referred for PTSD, my mental health is just way off the radar, it’s bad.
‘I won’t trust again. I used to say to him, ‘you’re the love of my life, I’ve loved you more than any of my ex-partners’ and now he’s done that how am I ever going to trust another man, what if they batter me too? I’m really sceptical of men.
‘I’ve got a lot of healing and processing to do. I don’t think it has sunk in yet. The mental health team have told me I have developed dissassociation which means I was talking about it as if it was nothing. There were no emotions nothing. When it was in court I actually cried.’
