DARREN FOSTER

'I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO MURDER ME' - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVOR SPEAKS OUT AS EX IS JAILED

A woman has told how she finally decided to leave her abusive partner after her son saw her horrific injuries as she lay in a hospital bed.

The victim, who the Examiner has chosen not to name, had been beaten by Darren Foster repeatedly during their four-and-a-half-year relationship.

She feared for her life as he stamped on her chest and stomach during his latest booze-fuelled attack in January this year, Leeds Crown Court heard.

She said: “His face - he looked like ‘I’m going to murder you.’” “He was stamping on my stomach that hard that I thought it was going to explode.

“I kept shouting ‘stop, stop’ and I know I passed out.

“When I went to hospital and saw my son, there were tears in his eyes and my family seeing me in that state.

If it wasn’t for my family, I don’t know what I’d have done.

“I just don’t ever want to meet anybody like him again and I hope other women out there [know] - if I can do it, they can.” The court heard Foster, of Hebden Court in Quarmby, invited her over to his flat on January 16 this year and he was anxious ahead of his latest appointment so they both started drinking.

He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of wounding and was sentenced to two years and seven months’ imprisonment, with a 15-year restraining order banning him from entering the Dalton area.