Overview

• Daniel Soulsby received a three-year term at Teesside Crown Court after admitting controlling behaviour, three counts of actual bodily harm, two counts of intentional strangulation and criminal damage.
• Craig Walker was sentenced to four years in prison and given a restraining order for wounding his former partner, leaving her with five fractured ribs and a punctured lung.
• Both offenders acknowledged systematic monitoring of phones, threats with weapons and property damage as part of ongoing coercive control.
• Victims’ impact statements described enduring nightmares, flashbacks and persistent fear following months of abuse.
• The rulings under the 2015 Serious Crime Act mirror a wider UK shift toward substantial custodial sentences and restraining orders in domestic violence cases.