Burning cigarettes stuffed up my nose': Girlfriend abuses man for 18 months

London: Driving home the point that men can be victims of sexual abuse as well, a 45-year-old man, who endured an 18-month-long abusive relationship with his girlfriend, has revealed that he was branded, hit with a hammer, scalded with hot water and had burning cigarettes stuffed up his nose.

According to a report in the Metro, Ian McNicholl met Michelle Williamson Birmingham New Street train station in 2006.

The physical and mental abuse started just after four months the couple moved in together to their home in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, when Williamson hit Ian across the face with a vacuum cleaner lead for not revealing his past sex life to her.

And this was only the start.

Turning vicious as time went by, Ian reveals that Williamson began lashing out at him if he ever refused. “She’d rant ‘You don’t love me enough, you have five minutes to be ready for sex’. That, of course, is the last thing on your mind. Then she’d say ‘You now have four minutes, three minutes…’ At the end of five minutes she’d blocked out what she had done.”

In other separate incidents, he was branded with hot iron, broken a champagne bottles across his knees, hit with a mobile phone, iron bar and a hammer.

His ordeal ended when a concerned neighbour drew the authorities’ attention to the violence.

Williamson was eventually charged and put in prison for 7 years, and is free now. When he thought that he was finally free from the abusive relationship, Williamson threatened him that she was well connected, and that she would have him killed.

With the whole episode behind him, Ian has suffered cracked ribs, a fractured skull, broken cheekbones, and has been scalded twice. He is currently associated with an NGO that works for the benefit of domestic abuse survivors.