The new lover of a controlling ‘monster’ who abused his fiancée before she took her own life has admitted ‘coaching’ him to ‘say sorry’ and ‘show emotion’ while he was standing trial for her manslaughter.
Ryan Wellings, 32, was jailed for six-and-a-half years in 2025 after he was convicted of subjecting new mother Kiena Dawes, 23, to years of sickening domestic abuse and brutal violence.
The hairdresser wrote in her suicide note that she was ‘murdered’, adding: ‘Ryan Wellings killed me… He ruined every bit of strength I had left.
‘I didn’t deserve it. I didn’t ask for it.’
It was the first time
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