I'M LIVING IN FEAR

Terrified Cara forced to go into hiding in terror of machete thug | Brute escaped prison sentence despite horrific catalogue of abuse

- BY RUTH SUTER

A MUM has been forced to flee her home after her brute ex-boyfriend dodged jail for threatening to kill her with a machete.

Cara Graham, 28, has been living in fear since evil Wojciech Okapiec walked free after years of subjecting her to terrifying physical and emotional abuse.

The 28-year-old thug, of Livingston, was convicted of a string of horrific domestic abuse charges at the High Court in the town last month.

He admitted holding a knife to Cara, threatening to kill her in her sleep, swiping her legs from under her, causing her to fall to the floor, seizing her by the neck and assaulting her to her injury on a number of occasions.

He also threatened to burn her home to the ground and during one rampage and used machete to chop up her Furniture.

Okapiec was handed a fivewear non-harassment order and ordered to do 180 hours of unpaid work, out just days after his conviction, he turned up at their son's school n East Calder.

Mum-of-one Cara is now so petrified for her safety that she has gone nto hiding to protect herself and her little boy.

She said: "I am living n fear. He has avoided ail and despite his nonharassment order, the irst thing he did was go o my son's school.

"I've now fled my home with my son and I feel like we had no other option." Cara and her child are now living at an unknown Location hundreds of miles away from her family.