A lady has described how the boyfriend she hoped was her dream man reworked her life right into a residing hell. Linsey Chinweefat, 32, started relationship Shane Costello-Collins in March 2021 and went on to inform mates she thought she’d discovered ‘the one’.
Nevertheless, that image of happiness was shattered - first by their break-up, after which by Costello-Collins occurring the rampage. Issues escalated after they cut up, with Costello-Collins turning up at her office, threatening to ‘slice’ her, and even breaking into her dwelling and launching a terrifying assault.
Costello-Collins was lastly arrested after greater than a month of abuse in the direction of his former associate. He has now been jailed for 18 months after admitting a string of offences.
Linsey Wythenshawe informed the Manchester Night Information: “After I met him he was type and caring, he didn’t have a lot however he was a tough employee. I introduced him into my dwelling, I informed my greatest mates ‘I feel I’ve discovered the one, no kids, no drama, no stress, I’m glad’, within the house of three months it simply went downhill. To go from ‘that is the particular person I need to spend the remainder of my life with’ after which for him to do what he’s carried out.”
Manchester Crown Court docket heard he turned up at Linsey’s office on September 4 final yr, with the 26-year-old shouting at her after she requested him to cease spitting on the bottom. He spat at her chest, and shouted racial slurs at her.
He then threatened to kill her, earlier than saying: “I’m going to slice you and depart you with marks”. When she tried to depart, he threw beer over her earlier than spitting in her face.
On September 25, he turned as much as his former associate’s home to apologise, earlier than he “flipped” when she referred to as him a narcissist and punched a lightweight change and a gap within the bed room wall, prompting a neighbour to name the police. He returned to the home on October 17, calling his ex a “fats sl*g” and asking who was along with her.
When his former associate didn’t reply, as she hoped he would go away if she stayed silent, he broke into her dwelling, pinning her to the ground after which grabbing her by the hair. He dragged her again upstairs when she tried to flee, calling her a “wh**e” and a “sl*g” and utilizing racial slurs once more.
He then informed his ex-partner her daughter “gained’t have a mum after tonight”. When she noticed the blue lights of the police, she began screaming, and Costello-Collins put his hand over her mouth to maintain her quiet, saying: “scream once more, I promise I'll kill you.”
On November 17, Costello-Collins left his former associate a collection of voicemails, calling her racial slurs, and threatening to kill her as soon as once more. Half an hour later, he turned up on the home, and tried to get in to talk to her. She referred to as the police instantly and after they arrived, Costello-Collins tried to cover in a neighbour’s backyard.
When he was arrested, he tried to leap out of the police van, narrowly avoiding headbutting one of many officers who had detained him, earlier than spitting at them with such frequency officers had been pressured to put a spit hood on him. His behaviour was so risky that he needed to be positioned in rip-proof clothes when he was taken into custody.
Sadly, Lindsey blames herself for not strolling away earlier. “I’m not going to sit down right here and say I’ve been good as a result of when he gave me verbal abuse I'd give it again to him,” she says.
“It’s my very own fault I do know, I ought to have walked away the primary time he put his arms on me however I didn’t and he put me and my daughter via hell. I really feel like I’m at all times having to look over my shoulder - that’s not a life. I need to have the ability to rise up and open my again door and home windows and put my music on however I’m going to be sat with my home windows closed making him suppose I’m not even in.
“I need to have the ability to really feel secure, to stroll to Tesco like a traditional human being and do my purchasing with my youngster. I’m not shifting far-off to begin anew, every little thing’s anticipated on the sufferer to maneuver dwelling and alter her life however why ought to I've to as a result of I haven’t carried out a incorrect, I’m the sufferer on this. Why ought to I uproot my youngster on her final yr of main college due to him?”
As he has already served virtually eight months in jail, Costello-Collins shall be eligible to be launched on licence in simply over a month’s time, returning to the streets near the place his former associate and newest sufferer reside.
Linsey says if she goes to her bed room window, she will be able to see the house of one in all Costello-Collins’ relations, and is aware of he shall be again within the space - which is why a restraining order in opposition to him solely prevents her abuser from coming inside 20m of her dwelling, as a substitute of the 100m that was initially proposed.
Explaining the sentence to her ten-year-old daughter has been very troublesome for her, she says, as her youngster needed to undergo home violence counselling in school after the incidents.
“I’ve needed to clarify to my daughter that he’s popping out of jail and he or she requested me ‘do we have now to maneuver colleges, do we have now to maneuver home, is he going to kill us?’ She’s ten, she’s received her complete life forward of her and he or she doesn’t need to play exterior along with her mates in the summertime, she doesn’t need to do something, she needs to be glued to me.
“He’s a violent thug and I need the world to know that he’s a racist. He doesn’t need to even stroll round right here. I assumed [the sentence] would have given me sufficient time to maneuver however I’m now having to hurry my software earlier than he will get out.
“I’ve had two of his different victims contact me they usually don’t need to communicate up however I'll make sure that their voice is heard via me, to the world we is perhaps victims however we’re robust highly effective girls.”
Costello-Collins sentencing listening to, earlier this month, heard he was despatched to jail for 18 weeks and handed a restraining order in 2017 for an offence referring to a previous associate. Costello-Collins has 17 prior convictions for 29 offences, together with eight offences of violence between 2013-2017.
He admitted two counts of prison injury, assault by beating, a bit 39 assault, two counts of racially aggravated harassment, two counts of assaulting an emergency employee, and breach of a suspended sentence, in reference to the offences in opposition to Linsey.
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