'Shell of myself': victim speaks out as abuser locked up for seven years

A victim of domestic abuse has told a court how she wishes she had "never met" her abuser as he was sentenced to seven years in prison for offences including strangulation and assault.

- by Joseph Williams

The victim told Winchester Crown Court of her harrowing ordeal at the hands of Callum Hornby, 24, of Grange Road in Petersfield, and how it has left her "a shell of what she used to be".

Hornby was sentenced after pleading guilty to a series of incidents perpetrated between October 8, 2023 and September 11, 2024 in Gosport and Petersfield.

Addressing the court, the woman said: "The impact of what Callum Hornby has done to me has impacted every part of my life.

"It has affected my mental health, my confidence and my relationships with my family and my friends. It has caused me trauma, which I am not sure I will ever recover from.