Cruel husband shaved wife’s head ‘for a joke’ and threw her cat out a window

06.04.2022 - 22:41 / dailyrecord.co.uk

A wife was made to have her head completely shaved and abused for years at the hands of her controlling and intimidating husband.

David Andrew Rees, 52, carried out his reign of terror from the day he married the woman 18 years ago, when he accused of her cheating after he saw her hugging her cousin to comfort him.

Rees shaved part of his wife’s head down to her scalp “for a joke” and in one incident threw her cat from a window in their house.

Rees confessed to to coercive and controlling behaviour in an intimate or family relationship and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Brian Berlyne, prosecuting, said Rees, of Stonepail Road, Gatley, Cheadle, would accuse her of going to hotels with other men when in fact she was working a night shift, Manchester Evening News reports.

“He did not like her speaking to her family,” said Mr Berlyne. “She would shorten her conversations on the phone [with her family] and Rees placed phone tracking applications on her mobile.

“He mistreated her pet cats, knowing she was attached to them. In 2014, he threw one of them out of the window of their flat onto a roof before his wife climbed out to retrieve it.

“Rees would scream and shout at her complaining that she gave the cats more attention than him, saying she loved them more than him.”

The court was told that Rees was a ‘heavy drinker’, used amphetamines and would play loud music, report Hull Live. His wife would not complain for fear of making him angry, said Mr Berlyne.

“Rees said he didn’t like her leaving the house or speaking to anyone else,” continued Mr Berlyne. “When his wife was referred to a counsellor, Rees would follow her. He would also follow her around the house when she was on the phone.”

One occasion, he held her