Police hold mum and partner of Kiena's abuser

A man jailed for abusing his former partner before she took her own life is facing a probe into allegations he attempted to pervert the course of justice along with his girlfriend and his mother.

- by Matthew Calderbank

Ryan Wellings, 31, was jailed for six-and-a-half years in January for assaulting and coercing Kiena Dawes, who took her life on a railway line in Garstang in 2022.

The mother-of-one left a note claiming he was a “monster” who had attacked her physically and emotionally for more than two years.