'I took Shane into my home and told friends he was the one. Months later I was living in hell'
25.07.2022 - 12:19
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A woman has described how the boyfriend she thought was her dream man turned her and her daughter's lives into a living hell.
Linsey Chinweefat, 32, started a relationship with Shane Costello-Collins in March 2021, telling friends she thought she'd found 'the one'. But that picture of happiness was shattered - first by their break-up, and then by Costello-Collins going on the rampage.
Things escalated after they split, with Costello-Collins turning up at her workplace, threatening to 'slice' her, and even breaking into her home and launching a terrifying attack.
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Costello-Collins, of Greatfield Road, Wythenshawe, was finally arrested after more than a month of abuse towards his former partner. She told the Manchester Evening News : "When I met him he was kind and caring, he didn't have much but he was a hard worker.
"I brought him into my home, I told my best friends 'I think I've found the one, no children, no drama, no stress, I'm happy', in the space of three months it just went downhill. To go from 'this is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with' and then for him to do what he's done."
Costello has now been jailed for 18 months after admitting a string of offences. Manchester Crown Court heard he turned up at Linsey's workplace on September 4 last year, with the 26-year-old shouting at her after she asked him to stop spitting on the ground.
He spat at her chest, and shouted racial slurs at her. He then threatened to kill her, before saying: "I'm going to slice you and leave you with marks". When she tried to leave, he threw beer over her before spitting in her face.
On September 25, he turned up to his former partner's house to apologise, before he "flipped" when she called him a narcissist