Baby-faced domestic abuser who wouldn't let partner use toilet jailed as victim vows to 'never forgive'
03.01.2023 - 08:23
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
A baby-faced abuser who wouldn't let his girlfriend go to the bathroom alone and threatened to kill her family has been locked up for more than three years.
Luke Mackie, 21, subjected Nicole Connor, 23, to almost one year of terrifying physical attacks and extreme coercive control - including choking her and removing her phone and car keys.
He would refuse to let her use the bathroom alone, and hurled her to the floor during violent outbursts. When NHS nurse Nicole found the courage to end the relationship, Mackie followed her to work and her home, and hounded her with phone calls and abusive text messages.
Nicole told the Record she will never forgive her abuser but a weight has been lifted now he is locked up.
She said: "I'm relieved he's behind bars. He can't just walk away and do it to someone else - that was my biggest fear.
"He's scum and I will never forgive him. He's not sorry for any of it - he's only sorry he got caught. But I don't want his apology.
"I don't think he ever thought this day was going to come.
"It now feels like justice has been served and I can start putting this behind me."
Nicole's mum Michelle, 56, added: "It's the best Christmas present I could ask for."
Mackie pleaded guilty to 12 charges at Dundee Sheriff Court in October including the coercive control of Nicole between October 1 2020 and July 31 2021. He also pled guilty to four charges against a later girlfriend, four other assaults, including two attacks on police officers, two counts of threatening behaviour and possessing cocaine.
Branding his behaviour "truly harrowing", Sheriff Gregor Murray sentenced him to 40 months imprisonment.
Upon his release he will be subjected to supervision for 12 months, and has been ordered not to approach or