A courageous mum who feared her abusive ex-boyfriend would kill her, wrote his identify in her personal blood so police will have the ability to catch him if she dies
Emmie Dalton, 29, met Jonathan Hunt, 34, on relationship app, Tinder in January 2020 and when Covid struck he moved in together with her and her two youngsters.
However when Emmie, a grasp’s scholar, began learning an English literature diploma, he complained she wasn’t paying him sufficient consideration.
By January 2021 Hunt turned secretive along with his telephone and he or she found he had been messaging and flirting with a number of different ladies.
The pair break up up in October 2021, although they remained mates however Hunt attacked Emmie after she invited him to her mum’s fiftieth birthday celebration in July 2022.
Emmie has now spoken out about her ordeal after Hunt was jailed for assault.
She stated: ‘Johnny’s brutal assault left me scarred for all times and I’ll want corrective surgical procedure on my nostril sooner or later. However I’m a survivor and eventually rid of him.
‘On the day of the get together Johnny was charming and on his finest behaviour, however after everybody left and I began clearing up, he squared as much as me within the kitchen, demanding to understand how a lot I’d needed to drink.
‘His eyes glazed over after I advised him I’d solely had a number of.’
All of a sudden, Hunt punched Emmie onerous within the face, dislocating her nostril, earlier than persevering with to hit her.
‘A metallic style crammed my nostrils and I used to be drenched in blood,’ Emmie stated.
‘Terrified he’d kill me, I ducked beneath his arm and raced upstairs into my bed room, locking the door behind me.
‘I assumed he’d kill me and get away with it.’
Decided to not let him escape justice, Emmie coated her finger in her personal blood and wrote ‘John’ on her bed room wall.
As Hunt entered her bed room, she escaped down the steps and out onto the road the place he caught up together with her and shoved her face first into the pavement.
Emmie blacked out, and when she obtained consciousness, Hunt had vanished.
She stated: ‘I managed to tug myself residence and telephone a buddy, who took me again to hers. I used to be in an excessive amount of ache to name the police and simply went to mattress.’
The subsequent day, Emmie went residence together with her buddy and located Hunt asleep in her mattress. She referred to as the police and Hunt was arrested.
Later that morning, Emmie attended Chesterfield Royal Hospital the place she was handled for extreme bruising and a dislocated nostril and the marketing consultant advised her she was fortunate as she may have misplaced her left eye.
In February 2023, Jonathan Hunt admitted assault occasioning precise bodily hurt, and final August he was jailed for 2 years and 11 months at Derby crown courtroom.
The choose detailed his earlier convictions for 28 offences, together with convictions that arose from ‘home context’.
Emmie says: ‘His sentence was appalling for what he did to me. He may’ve killed me.
‘Now there’s nonetheless blood on my wall, so I’ve swapped rooms. But it surely’s a reminder that I didn’t let that animal get the final phrase.’