In a campaign of abuse that left his 18-year-old girlfriend believing she was “in a body bag,” the controlling boyfriend assaulted her and threatened to acid attack and petrol bomb her. He was sentenced to prison.
After a year of tyranny and torture, Abu Munahim, 26, threatened to strip, murder, and then dump Elouise McDermott, 18, on moorland.
Ms. McDermott said that she “felt like a prisoner,” but after some thought, she came to the conclusion that inmates are treated better than she was.
Munahim, often known as “Dipsy,” smashed her vehicle with his Vauxhall Astra in a fit of rage when he was only 15 years old.
Munahim, of Oldham, Greater Manchester, confessed to coercive behavior and assault resulting in real bodily injury before Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester. Munahim was emotionless during his admission.
In accordance with the conditions of a restraining order, Munahim was sentenced to four and a half years in prison and is no longer permitted to communicate with Ms. McDermott or her mother.
Munahim continued to harass Ms. McDermott and even threatened her mother despite police having previously acquired a domestic violence protection order against him.
In order to prevent her mother from seeing her terrible wounds, which included black eyes and damaged ribs, Ms. McDermott booked herself into a hotel at one time as a result of the horrible torture.
I was continually evading blows and could never see a way out other than in a body bag, the victim said in a victim statement.
“I was hoping Dipsy would change, and he often promised to take me out to dinner, but change never materialized.”
The connection I had with my mother was at its worst during my time with Dipsy because he instilled falsehoods and unfavorable ideas about her in my mind.
“Around him, I never felt like a human being.” Although I believe inmates are treated better than that, I felt like a prisoner.
Donna McDermott, the mother of Ms. McDermott, said to police: “I never had a good feeling about Dipsy.” They caused all my other children to suffer, and their connection made me feel sick all the time. Rarely would he let her to return home.
He attempted to pay us to avoid testifying in court, but it wasn’t until their relationship ended that I realized how serious the matter really was.
Munahim has criminal inclinations since he was a young child, and in 2011 he was given an ASBO after police alleged he was causing “misery” in the Oldham town center.
He was nonetheless stopped from committing 76 offenses by the order, including biting his sister and abusing an ex-girlfriend.
The mother-of-one Ms. McDermott, who was 17 when she met Munahim in May 2021, had recently left another violent relationship, the court heard.
The duo had been out drinking with friends, but when they were returning home, he began punching her in the ribs over something she had supposedly said earlier, the prosecutor Anna Bond recalled to the court.
She fell to the ground while pleading for him to stop as he proceeded to pound her in the face and ribs, Ms. Bond said.
He bit her face and threatened to murder her as she was laying on the sidewalk.
Every time she attempted to get up, he would knock her down to the ground with a blow. At one point, she stumbled and smacked her head on the street, sustaining a nasty gash. Every time she attempted to flee, he would pull her back to the bushes.
Ms. Bond said in court that she was able to flee her attacker and flag down a passing truck driver, but before she could board, she was pulled back into the woods and the driver called the police, according to Ms. Bond.
The most alarming threat the defendant made to the complainant was that he would “take her to the Moors, strip her nude, and leave her corpse there,” Ms. Bond said. On another occasion, the defendant threatened the complainant following an altercation.
The court was informed by Ms. Bond that he would “dictate what she could or could not eat” and forbade her from wearing anything skimpy. The court was informed of his theft and destruction of her phone as a means of “exerting control over her.”
The prosecution said, “On another occasion, she fled to a friend’s residence out of fear of the defendant. Following her, the defendant stormed the home with a knife. Then he said he would murder her and himself.
“The complainant spent her 18th birthday out on the town in Oldham with her mother and friends. However, the defendant attempted to contact and text her all night long while she was gone.
When she arrived home, she saw the defendant sitting in his vehicle in front of her residence. He drove his vehicle into hers in the driveway and pretended to run her and her mother down in an effort to stop her from leaving.
“On another occasion, the defendant strangled the complainant while they were both in the vehicle.” The plaintiff was briefly knocked unconscious by the strangling.
She subsequently made reservations for a motel in the neighborhood because she couldn’t stand for her mother to witness the black eye and damaged ribs she received from the defendant.
However, the defendant persisted in making threats against her while she was lodged there, threatening to “petrol bomb” her home and “throw acid in her face.”
“The defendant struck the complainant straight in the face in front of others while she was on a phone conversation with a friend. For this offense, the defendant was sentenced to seven weeks in jail; nevertheless, as soon as he was there, he contacted the complainant and stated, “Watch what happens now.”
In August 2021, a domestic violence protection order was granted against him, but the abuse persisted. He contacted her from jail and warned her against letting her mother speak to the police about him. Throughout his term in jail, he called the complaint often, threatened her, and persuaded her to make calls on his behalf.
Later, the complainant and her mother were subject to a no-contact order against the defendant, but in February of this year, the complainant was awakened by a disturbance outside. In her yard, she overheard the defendant yelling at her and tossing decorations at her window.
“The most recent incidence happened when the complainant and a friend were out for a stroll while the kid was in a stroller. The defendant yelled at the complainant to get in as he pulled up next to the couple. She resisted, but the defendant yelled at them and threatened to “bonnet” them and the child if they didn’t back down. As they left, the complainant was spotted weeping as they got into the vehicle.
Munahim was defended by Ms. Milena Bennett, who claimed that Munahim’s attitude was a result of the extensive domestic violence he experienced as a kid. He has never been taught how to maintain a connection with a lady on his own.
He has a profound lack of comprehension. His father’s mistreatment of his mother and other family members served as a basis for this. He has the mentality that he will just punch back if someone strikes him.
Judge Abigail Hudson said to Munahim at sentencing: “You tried to control Miss Dermot from the beginning. She was obviously a very vulnerable person since she had a small kid and had been in an abusive relationship in the past.
It was all done out of your pitiful need to exert control over someone else. “You sought to impact her life in numerous ways by saying things like “if you loved me you would do this, if you respected me you would do that.” The majority of the assault occurred in public, and you tormented her even while you were imprisoned.
You obviously learned this from your father, and you are utterly incapable of accepting women as full members of society. It is obvious that you even despise these processes and don’t even seem apologetic.
‘Unfortunately for you, unless you alter your habits, this will spell a lifetime of loneliness. You put other women at a very high danger of being harmed.
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