‘Violent bully’ who broke partner’s neck and left her paralysed jailed for 16 years

Robert Easom violently assaulted Trudi Burgess, from Chorley, when she threatened to leave him A “violent and controlling bully” who broke the neck of his partner, leaving her paralysed and her life “destroyed”, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison. Robert Easom, a landscape gardener, violently assaulted Trudi Burgess, a schoolteacher and former singer, when she threatened to leave him after enduring eight years of coercive, controlling behaviour. In the UK, call the national domestic abu...

By Mark Brown North of England correspondent