'He began to strangle me - he had his hands around my neck... I thought I was going to die'

A DOMESTIC abuse survivor has bravely spoken of the moment she ‘thought she was going to die’ when the man she had been seeing launched a frenzied attack on her after a date night.

- BY JAMES HOLT

Nicole Hollinshead, 26, says she was left fearing for her life at the hands of Jordan McMahon, who brutally attacked her at his flat in Brinnington, after they returned back from a date on September 29 last year.

Jordan, who has since been jailed for two years and eight months, pleaded guilty to the offence of grievous bodily harm after being arrested and remanded into custody on the night of the horror assault.

Courageously speaking about her ordeal, Nicole said the pair had only been seeing one another for a few weeks and were in the ‘honeymoon period’ when he ‘snapped’ and she became victim to the prolonged attack.

After being ‘punched and kicked,’ with her face ‘covered in blood, she said she was eventually able to break free from his grip and run to a neighbour's house for safety.

“One night we had been to the pub and I'd agreed to stay at his.

“We came back and that was when he turned and unleashed this attack on me,” she said.

“We had just been casually dating and getting to know one another. It was supposed to be the honeymoon period and we had been on a few dates. When we got back, he started to accuse me of cheating on him and looking at other men. Then he completely snapped. He began beating me to the point where there were so many blows that I just saw black flashes in my eyes and couldn't feel anything.

“All I remember was being on the floor in the foetal position. He was stomping on me and kicking me. I was screaming and begging for him to stop.

“He got on top of me and began to strangle me. He had his hands around my neck, was looking into my eyes and I thought I was going to die.