Emperor Oludapo, 40, broke the 34-year-old woman’s eye
socket with a single ‘hard’ punch, before leaving her to seek medical help
alone. A police officer who saw her described the injury as like a ‘popped fish
eye’. The court heard the couple met through a friend and began to see one
another at church, but a couple of months into their relationship he began to
make ‘cruel remarks’ about her weight and the ‘standard of her cooking’,
prosecutor David Temkin said.
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He then prevented her from communicating with friends and
took to her checking up on her on Facebook, the court heard.
On February 8 the pair returned from a medical appointment
to her home, where she noticed he was talking to someone on the phone about money.
He then asked her about money, becoming angry when he learnt
she had spent it on food that had ‘gone to waste’. He then grabbed a bottle and
threatened to smash her head in, before punching her to the head, causing her
to fall off the couch.
Later, at the hospital, the Nigeria-born victim maintained
she had fallen. But when she encountered a nurse who spoke Yoruba and confided
in her, leading to Oludapo’s arrest. The victim had to have surgery for a
fractured eye socket, amid fears she would lose the sight in her right eye. The
operation was a success but she has some ‘double vision’.
Sentencing, Judge Mansell told Oludapo: “You very soon
became abusive, repeatedly telling she needed to lose weight, therefore
knocking her confidence, and criticising her cooking to such an extent that she
asked friends to show her how to cook. You became controlling as well.
“She was an extremely vulnerable victim, particularly
because of the manner in which you had treated her throughout the relationship,
reducing her self-confidence to rock bottom, but mainly because she was 13
weeks pregnant at the time of this serious assault.”
Making Oludapo subject to an indefinite restraining order,
the judge said: “Given the fact she is to give birth to your child, if that
causes an issue you may apply for an amendment of it.”
Culled from Manchester Evening News: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/emperor-oludapo-pregnant-punched-partner-11513993#ICID=Android_MENNewsApp_AppShare
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