Joanne Ferneyhough has spoken retired aft her estranged hubby launched a "sinister" run against her, which she claimed included drugging her nutrient with canine medicine and sleeping tablets. (SWNS)
A mother-of-two has spoken retired astir the "sinister" run her estranged hubby waged against her aft she tried to extremity their relationship, claiming it included drugging her nutrient with canine medicine and sleeping tablets.
Joanne Ferneyhough, 42, said her hubby Thomas Ferneyhough, 37 started tormenting her aft she tried to extremity their narration successful September 2017 pursuing months of "possessive" behaviour aft they wed successful June that year.
As they tried to to reconcile their relationship, she said her hubby started secretly slipping a concoction of what she thinks was sleeping tablets and canine medicine into nutrient and cups of tea.
The 42-year-old enactment an antithetic sensation successful her beverage down to "off" beverage and claimed Ferneyhough adjacent erstwhile shook her awake, reasoning she was dead.
Thomas Ferneyhough, 37, began tormenting woman Joanne, 42, aft she tried to extremity their narration successful September 2017 aft getting joined successful June the aforesaid year. (SWNS)
He besides hacked her Facebook and sent messages to friends, urinated connected her car, and contacted her colleagues telling them she had cheated connected him.
Thomas Ferneyhough of Tixall Road, Great Haywood, Stafford, has present been jailed for 30 months successful situation aft admitting communal assault, threatening to destruct property, engaging successful controlling/coercive behaviour, and harassment.
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Despite suffering from anxiousness pursuing the ordeal, Joanne Ferneyhough said she had present managed to determination on.
She said: "You ne'er ideate the idiosyncratic you emotion would beryllium susceptible of specified atrocious things - similar drugging you. He erstwhile handed maine a cupful of beverage and jokingly said, 'I could person enactment thing successful that'.
"I didn’t deliberation thing of it astatine the clip - I ne'er erstwhile thought helium was slipping things into my drinks.
"I’ve truly struggled aft the full ordeal, but I’m gladsome he’s yet retired of my life."
Joanne and Thomas Ferneyhough joined successful June 2017 but she said helium soon embarked connected a signifier of possessive behaviour. (SWNS)
The mates archetypal met connected a dating app successful 2014 and joined 3 years aboriginal successful June 2017.
But Ferneyhough said wrong months of getting married, she noticed a "possessive" broadside to her caller husband.
"The time aft our wedding time helium said, ‘I ain you know’,' she said. "Things continued to spell downhill from there.
"He besides had a atrocious temper – slamming doors and punching holes successful them."
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She tried to extremity their narration successful September 2017, but Ferneyhough continued to interaction her, turning up astatine her work, slashing her tyres, urinated connected her car, and dispersed rumours astir an matter astir her office.
She managed to get a restraining bid but Ferneyhough breached it by continuing to connection her and successful October 2017 helium was convicted for harassment against Joanne and jailed for 10 weeks.
When helium was released helium begged for her backmost and decided to springiness their narration different alteration but claims helium past started drugging her nutrient and cups of beverage with sleeping pills and medicine she believes were meant for their eight-year-old pug Bella.
Joanne said she was sharing her acquisition to assistance different women. (SWNS)
She said: "He spent a batch of clip reflecting and I truly thought he'd changed.
"In August 2021, I started feeling truly sick each of a sudden. I adjacent went to the GP due to the fact that I was oversleeping and precise lethargic each the time.
"The cupful of teas tasted weird, but I ever enactment it down the beverage being off. One time, I woke-up to him shaking my limb and erstwhile I woke-up helium looked truthful relieved, helium adjacent told maine helium thought I was dead!"
She said she besides noticed his temper returning, an connected 1 juncture helium kicked a cupboard portion she was connected virtual gathering calling her a "pathetic b****", and connected different threw a bacon rotation astatine the wall."
She threw him retired successful December 2021, prompting him to endanger to pain the location down portion continuing to harass her via messages including audio clips threatening to termination himself successful January.
After a constabulary search, helium was recovered successful a tract and Joanne ended things for bully with him.
When Ferneyhough was sentenced, his defence barrister said helium "does latch connected to women", adding: "Once helium is simply a narration it is to the constituent wherever helium becomes obsessed with them. He didn't privation to suffer her, but his actions drove her distant and made it worse."
Joanne said she was sharing her acquisition successful the anticipation it would assistance different women, saying: "It's truthful hard to fto idiosyncratic spell erstwhile you privation to bash is assistance them.
"But the champion happening you tin bash is get immoderate assistance and talk retired earlier things escalate.
"It's truly shaken my spot successful men and having a narration is the furthest happening from my mind. I was precise fortunate thing worse didn't happen.
"It's been a truly hard clip but I'm getting to a spot wherever I tin look aft myself and determination connected with my life."
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