Domestic violence victim reveals shocking footage of drunken boyfriend crippling her in horrific attack

A brave domestic violence victim has asked police to release shocking CCTV footage showing the moment she was attacked by her partner.

The victim wanted to show the horrors she had endured at the hands of her boyfriend in the hope of encouraging others to come forward.

Mark Power, 37, kicked, punched and dragged the victim by her hair during 10 minutes of sickening violence, which was caught on camera.

The thug, jailed for 10 and a half years, threw his girlfriend down the stairs THREE times in a horror attack carried out just weeks after he was released from a prison sentence, for attacking the same victim.

Power, who appeared at Birmingham Crown Court, has now been jailed for 10 and a half years after he previously admitted a charge of wounding with intent.

Judge Avik Mukherjee also made a lifetime restraining order, banning him from contacting the victim, who suffered a broken back and can now only walk with the aid of crutches.

Police received a call at 10.30pm on December 20 last year about domestic violence taking place at Power’s flat, in Erdington.

They then received a second call an hour later saying the victim had been thrown down the stairs.

When officers arrived they found the door open.

“The complainant was sprawled on the floor at the bottom of the stairs,” said Aliya Rashid, prosecuting.

“She had blood all over her and she was moaning and groaning in pain. There was a blood print on the wall where her head had hit it,”

She said officers then saw Power who had blood on his clothes and was agitated and attempted to push past them.

The woman was taken to hospital where it was discovered her injuries included fractures to her vertebrae, pelvis and eye socket, as reported by the Birmingham Mail.

The victim, who now walks with the aid of crutches, wept as she saw the footage of the attack.

She told the court: “The effects of what he did to me terrible and life changing. I was in intensive care and spent four weeks in hospital.

“I rely on my family and friends for support and my daily needs. I am unable to walk properly and need help for the simplest of tasks.

“I am struggling to cope and on medication due to the injuries I sustained.

“I was a happy go lucky person before. I just wish Mark had killed me because I am serving my own life sentence.

“I am literally a former shadow of myself.”

In passing sentence the judge said: “This was a brutal, sustained and relentless attack upon her, a person who loved you and stood by you after that assault in 2014.

“You were out of control through alcohol.

“However the incident started what you did to her was unforgiveable. You threw her down the stairs three times rendering her weak, vulnerable and severely incapacitated.

“She could barely stand up and tried to crawl back up the stairs and you threw her again like a rag doll.

“The catalogue of injuries she sustained are horrendous,” the judge continued. “You tried to permanently damage her physically and mentally.”

Joseph Keating, defending, said Power had overcome an addiction to drugs but had turned to alcohol.

“He has seen the footage and he is ashamed, disgusted and horrified and rightly so,” he added.

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