After being found guilty of assault and coercive and controlling behavior, Ryan Wellings was sentenced to six and a half years in prison.
This afternoon, January 16, he was sentenced at Preston Crown Court. The 30-year-old was sentenced to two years in prison for count two,
Which included his girlfriend Kiena Dawes being struck by a door, and four years in prison for count one, which involved coercive behavior. These phrases will follow one another.
He received an extra six months for causing his companion actual bodily harm (ABH). In her suicide note, the 23-year-old accused Wellings of being a “monster” and blamed him for her death.
Before Dawes committed suicide on July 22, 2022, she left this letter and their daughter, who was nine months old, with a friend.
