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Sitting down to watch Coronation Street was usually an evening treat after a hard day's work for Ian McNicholl, but one night there came a scene that made his blood run cold.

Tyrone Dobbs, the soap's easy-going mechanic, was being attacked by his pregnant girlfriend in a shocking plotline that has been building over the summer.

And the scenes that have played out over the last few weeks in which Tyrone is battered more frequently and more violently by Kirsty Soames, have brought back terrible memories for Ian.

Because he is the real-life victim of one of Britain's most shocking cases of domestic violence against a man.

Last week Ian, 50, came face to face with Alan Halsall, the actor who plays Tyrone, in an emotional meeting on the set of the Manchester-based soap in which he described his hell at the hands of his former girlfriend, Michelle Williamson.

Over a 14-month period, Ian's twisted ex poured boiling water over his genitals, scalded his arm with a steam iron, repeatedly smashed a mobile phone into his cheek and thrust burning cigarettes up his nose.

He also suffered attacks involving hammers and metal bars.

Williamson was jailed for seven years for grievous bodily harm but today - four years on - Ian is still carrying the mental and physical scars.

Alan says: "I've struggled to get my head around what Ian has told me because it's not something I've experienced or heard about before.

"I've read case studies but it's different hearing it first-hand - it brings home how terrible it actually is.

"It's brave for Ian to speak out because there's still a stigma attached - not many men want to admit it's happened.

"I feel a responsibility with a storyline like this. I'm just an actor trying to portray what has been written for me.

"But if it helps raise awareness and helps other guys come forward and say that a woman hit them, then that's great and it's job done for Coronation Street."

The two men met as Tyrone's suffering continues on screen.

The former WPC, played by Natalie Gumede, has already smashed him in the mouth with a ladle and shoved his face into a wall.

In scenes to be screened next week, viewers will see her batter the cowering mechanic with a vacuum cleaner.

Feeling the storyline mirrored his own plight, Ian contacted the show and offered to meet the actor to give him a greater insight.

Alan, 30, jumped at the chance and Ian travelled from his home in Grimsby to meet Alan and Natalie at the studios.

Ian says: "People are going to watch what is happening to Tyrone and recognise themselves, so I think what Alan is doing is fantastic.

"He's helping so many men who feel scared and who have nowhere to turn."

Ian met his girlfriend Michelle by chance at Birmingham New Street station in 2006.

He was 44, she was 34, and he was travelling to start a new job in the area as a public-sector training consultant.

When he returned home to Grimsby five months later, Michelle went with him.

It was then - completely out of the blue - the abuse began.

"She was vacuuming the living room and said: 'Can you tell me what the last sexual act was with your last girlfriend,'" Ian recalls.

"I laughed - I just thought she was joking.

"In a flash, she stopped, held up the vacuum nozzle like a baseball bat and smashed me across the face.

"My cheek and eyelid literally split open."

It is hard to understand why Ian didn't respond but he says he was too shocked and too frightened.

"I wondered if she was going to do it again so I thought I shouldn't say anything and shouldn't do anything," he says.

"I'd never been in a violent relationship before and didn't know what to do."

The couple carried on as if nothing had happened. But from then on the abuse escalated.

"Until that point there had been absolutely nothing to suggest she was violent," Ian says.

"She was a wolf in sheep's clothing. But of course what she had done was to establish my trust. I had fallen in love with her by that time."

Looking back, Ian realises that over the early months of their relationship, Michelle had gradually broken his ties with his family and friends - just like Kirsty has done on screen with Tyrone - leaving him with nowhere to turn.

"She would ring up friends I had lent money to, saying I wanted it back.

"And she would suggest to me that my friends were taking advantage of me. Gradually my friends stopped phoning me."

Michelle warned Ian she had brothers in organised crime and if he left her or told anyone, they would come to kill him. In that situation he felt he had no option but to endure the assaults.

"One of her favourite things was to slam her mobile phone into my cheek bone. She caused multiple fractures doing that," Ian says.

"I've had a fractured skull, three fractured ribs and the septum in my nose has been replaced from where she hit me with a hammer.

"One time she was ironing and she placed it on my arm. She then told me to take my t-shirt off otherwise she would put the iron on my face.

"I believed her so I did what she said and she placed it on my shoulder and then in the middle of my back.

"She then fetched the vacuum and got the flex and whipped my back with the plug.

"Another time she said: 'I've punched you, I've kicked you, I've beaten you and you still don't tell me you love me, so I'll boil a kettle and pour it over you.'

"I heard the kettle click. I froze, thinking she wouldn't go through with it, but she walked in and poured the whole kettle into my lap.

"The agony was unbelievable and I started screaming.

"All she said was: 'If you thought it hurt the first time, wait until I do it again.' She re-boiled the kettle and did it again.

"She told me I couldn't go to A&E and called a chemist to deliver gauze and bandages.

"I dressed the wounds myself. It took weeks to heal."

Ian, who is 6ft and weighs 13 stone, admits many people find it difficult to understand how he was overpowered by Michelle, who was just 5ft 1in and seven stone.

"She took away food, structure and routine and I was ground down," he explains.

"I genuinely believed these brothers existed and didn't know where to go.

"She would attack me because she said I didn't tell her I loved her enough and that I didn't instigate sex enough.

"Sometimes she would attack me then tell me I had five minutes to be ready for sex.

"When you've just been hit in the face with a mobile phone and can feel your eye swelling, it's the last thing on your mind.

"That, to her, was the proof that I didn't love her and then there would be a second, more violent, assault."

Ian's ordeal only ended when a neighbour anonymously contacted police in May 2008 and they turned up on his doorstep.

"That call saved my life," he says. "That night she'd said she was going to kill me. The assault went on for six hours.

"She battered my arm and head with a metal bar then hit me with a hammer.

"I was covered in blood and everything was hazy.

"I was taken to hospital and my arm was so injured doctors were going to amputate. But luckily it didn't come to that."

He moved to a shelter for 18 months and, with the help of therapists, rebuilt his life. He now works for a homeless charity.

Alan, who is married to Wild at Heart actress Lucy-Jo Hudson, says: "God help me, I would never want to be in that situation myself.

"I have a very calm relationship so it's difficult to even comprehend. I really admire Ian for speaking out."

Ian was recently made an honorary patron of ManKind, a charity that provides support for male victims of domestic abuse.

He says: "There's an embarrassment in admitting you are being beaten by your girlfriend.

"There's also fear and the feeling that as a man you won't be believed.

"Yet the night Kirsty pushed Tyrone into the wall, people were ringing ManKind before the credits even rolled. The helpline had to call a halt at 1am.

"It's a brave decision to run a storyline on such a taboo subject, but Coronation Street is going into millions of homes.

"If it can save one person enduring what I went through, then that would be fantastic."

* Read more amazing real life stories here.

* FOR MORE INFO ON CORONATION STREET VISIT WWW.ITV.COM/CORRIE. IF YOU ARE A MAN SUFFERING DOMESTIC ABUSE CALL MANKIND'S NATIONAL HELPLINE ON: 01823 334244

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Sitting down to watch Coronation Street was usually an evening treat after a hard day's work for Ian McNicholl, but one night there came a scene that made his blood run cold. Tyrone Dobbs, the soap's easy-going mechanic, was being attacked by his pregnant girlfriend in a shocking plotline that has been building over the summer.

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A man who suffered months of violence at the hands of his fiancee has spoken of his ordeal to help raise awareness of domestic abuse against men.

Michelle Williamson's attacks on Ian McNicholl included stubbing cigarettes on his chest, putting them up his nose and scalding him with boiling water.

In April she was jailed for seven years after being found guilty of grievous bodily harm with intent and assault.

Mr McNicholl, 46, of Grimsby, said: "Her abuse knew no boundaries."

The former training consultant said he suffered one "isolated attack" in the early part of their relationship but the abuse began when Williamson moved into Mr McNicholl's Grimsby home.

'Absolute agony'

He said attacks usually began after Williamson, 34, asked him questions about previous relationships, or accused him of not telling her that he loved her often enough.

"It would result in assaults with a whole host of household weapons," he said.

"Having a kettle of water poured on your groin, having it re-boiled and poured on you again whilst you are in absolute agony has stayed in my mind and always will do.

"The worst case I was kept awake for three days with no food. Cigarettes were stubbed out on my chest, they were lit and put up my nostrils for the whole evening."

The last attack was in April 2008, when Mr McNicholl said Williamson repeatedly hit him with a metal bar and a hammer.

He said: "My arm was so badly beaten that the hospital thought they were going to have to amputate my arm.

"It was just a horrendous ordeal and I am just so thankful for the neighbour who made an anonymous call [to the police] and the work the police did when they rescued me from my home."

Mr McNicholl said there was still a stigma attached to being a male victim of domestic violence.

He said: "Males do have to overcome the stereotype that society has of them that you are the stronger sex, why don't you leave, but I was ground down mentally and emotionally.

"The key message that I would like to get over is that help is there for people and if anybody, whether it be a work colleague, whether it be a neighbour, whether it be a friend or family, if you have any concerns at all about anyone who may be in a domestic violence situation, male or female, you can ring 999 or Crimestoppers or the local police.

"They will take over, they know what they are doing they have experienced people and they will extradite people from what is a horrific situation.

"And it's thanks to them that I am here today."

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'If anything happens to me, it's them': Chilling previously unseen video of young honour killing victim warning police her life is in danger

Banaz Mahmod 's father and uncle were jailed for life for her murder in 2007

Banaz: A Love Story, a new documentary which tells the story of her tragic death, will be previewed at the Raindance film festival this month

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The tragic story of a young woman who was killed by her family after walking out on an arranged marriage and finding love with another man has been brought into the spotlight once again in a new documentary.

Banaz Mahmod, 20, went missing shortly after visiting a police station and telling officers that she believed her family intended to murder her.

The film, Banaz: A Love Story, which is to be premiered at the Raindance film festival in London this month, includes never-before-seen recordings made by the Kurdish woman herself, as well as videotapes of the five visits she made to police to ask for help.

Sadly the police weren't able to offer her much assistance and Banaz was murdered at her home in Mitcham, Surrey on 24 January 2006.

She was strangled with a bootlace and her body stuffed in a suitcase and buried six feet down in the garden of a house belonging to an associate in Birmingham.

Banaz's father Mahmod Mahmod and uncle Ari Mahmod were convicted of her murder in June 2007, two other men involved fled to Iraq and were extradited back before being jailed for life in 2010.

The harrowing documentary examining her untimely death was made by former pop star and now music producer and film-maker Deeyah, who is of Punjabi and Pashtun heritage.

Deeyah, who quit touring after being subjected to constant death threats, said that she was extremely touched by Banaz's story.

'We tried to find anyone who would have known her, no one came forward,' Deeyah told The Observer.

'Then I came across the videotape with Banaz herself, telling us what her suffocating reality was like. Watching this tape for the first time was among the most difficult things I have ever experienced.

'I had spent three-and-a-half years working on this film, learning everything I could about this young woman's life and her death, we were in the final editing process and suddenly here she was, when no one else would come forward to speak about her.

'I found it excruciatingly sad to see her and at the same time I felt so glad to finally get a chance to see her and hear her. No one listened to her in her life. '

Banaz's nightmare began when she agreed to an arranged-marriage when she was 17 to a Kurdish man, then aged 28, who she told police was 'very strict. Like it was 50 years ago.'

She had met her husband-to-be only three times before her wedding day,and according to Banaz, who was 12 she first arrived in England, after fleeing Saddam Hussein's Iraq, with parents Mahmod and Behya, her husband regularly abused her physically and also subjected her to sexual assaults.

'When he raped me it was like I was his shoe that he could wear whenever he wanted to,' she explained. 'I didn't know if this was normal in my culture, or here. I was 17.'

The terrified young woman left her husband after two-and-a-half years, a decision that angered her family deeply.

After returning to her family home, she met and fell in love with Rahmat Sulemani, a family friend.

Rahmat would later give evidence at the trial revealing that he and Banaz had been threatened with death if they carried on seeing each other.

The mobile phone footage he took of Banaz when she was lying covered in blood in a hospital bed, in an apparent earlier attempt to murder her, was shown at the trial.

The lovers pretended they had parted after the shocking incident, but they continued to meet in secret. They were spotted together in Brixton on January 21 and the Mahmods were informed.

Rahmat was kidnapped by four men who told him he would be killed later.

When he phoned Banaz to warn her, she went to the police and said she would co-operate in bringing charges against her family and other members of the community.

The policewoman who saw Banaz tried to persuade her to go into a hostel or safe house but she apparently thought she would be safe at home because her mother was there.

She returned to the family home and was murdered just days later.

Banaz's older sister Bekhal also gave evidence at the trial, putting her own life at risk by testifying against her family in court.

'She was a very calm and quiet person,' Bekhal says of her sibling. 'She loved to see people happy and didn't like arguments, she didn't like people raising their voices, she hated it.

'She just wanted a happy life, she just wanted a family.'

Bekhal is still living in hiding five years after her uncle and father were convicted and says she 'watches her back 24/7'.

Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode was instrumental in in getting justice for Banaz and won a Queen's Award for her efforts.

'I do think that we are only scratching the surface of this. One of the difficulties is that these things aren't often reported,' she told reporters in 2007

'In Banaz's case, if her boyfriend hadn't reported it, we would never have known that she was missing.'

'Despite the horror, what emerges is a story of love,' Deeya adds. 'What has upset me greatly from the very beginning of this project is how absent Banaz was from her own story.

'Whenever you see a film about someone who has passed you will always have family, friends, people who knew the person, sharing their love, their memories and thoughts about the person who has died; they have home videos, photos.

'That was just not the case here at all. The only person speaking for Banaz who had known her alive was her sister. Other than that, everyone else in the film came to know Banaz after she had died.'

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The father and uncle of honour killing victim Banaz Mahmod were jailed for life today for her murder.

Mahmod Mahmod, 54, was told he will have to serve a minimumn of 20 years while his brother Ari, 51, will have to serve at least 23 years.

Horrific details were revealed yesterday of the last hours of the young Kurdish woman murdered by her family for falling in love with the wrong man.

Banaz Mahmod, 20, was brutally raped and stamped on during a two-hour ordeal before being garotted.

One of her killers, the Old Bailey was told, was 30-year-old Mohamad Hama, who had been recruited by Banaz's father Mahmod Mahmod, 52, and his brother Ari, 51.

Both were found guilty of murder last month.

The shocking details of the killing came to light when Hama was secretly recorded talking to a friend in prison.

He admitted "slapping" and "f***ing" Banaz, who was subjected to degrading sex acts.

Hama and his friend were heard laughing as he described how she was killed in her family home in Mitcham, South London, with Ari Mahmod "supervising".

The murderers - two other suspects have fled to Iraq - had been told Banaz would be on her own.

Hama is recorded as saying: "Ari (the uncle) said there is no one there. There was someone there, Biza (her sister). The bastard lied to us."

He said of the murder: "I swear to God it took him more than two hours. Her soul and her life would not leave."

Banaz was garotted for five minutes, said Hama, but it took another half an hour for her to die.

Hama said: "The wire was thick and the soul would not just leave like that.

"We could not remove it. All in all it took five minutes (to strangle) her.

"I was kicking and stamping on her neck to get the soul out. I saw her stark naked, without wearing pants or underwear."

Banaz's body was packed into a suitcase and buried in a garden in Birmingham, where it was found three months later.
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The trial of the two brothers heard that Banaz was killed because she had walked out of an unhappy arranged marriage - which she was forced into at just 17 - and fallen in love with Iranian Kurd Rahmat Suleimani, 28.

The pair had been secretly seeing each other, but her family were furious when they found out because Mr Suleimani was not "immediate family" or a strict Muslim.

Terrified, Banaz wrote to police naming people she said were planning to kill her.

Hama was on the list, the court heard. Two other men named by Banaz have fled the country.

Transcripts of the prison recording were read out at a pre- sentence hearing for Hama, of South Norwood, South London, who pleaded guilty to murdering Banaz at an earlier hearing.

Judge Brian Barker, the Common Serjeant of London, sat to assess the extent of Hama's involvement.

Victor Temple QC, prosecuting, told the court that Hama, who sat impassively in the dock, took a "leading part" in raping and killing Banaz in January last year then dumping her body.

He was said to have been recorded expressing concern because his fingerprints and DNA were on her body.

He was also concerned that a leaking pipe at the house where she was buried was sending water through the suitcase, possibly uncovering it.

During another taped conversation, Hama joked about Banaz's hair and elbow sticking out of the suitcase and how a police patrol drove past while he was helping to drag it to a car.

He said: "The road was crowded. The police came past. People were passing by - and we were dragging the bag.

"I almost ran away. Mr Ari (was dragging it) and we were around by each side of him.

"You know what it was, sticking out, her elbow, her hair was falling out so much. That was a stupid thing, a silly thing."

Defence barrister Malcolm Swift QC claimed Hama became involved only after Banaz's body had been put in the suitcase.

He told the court there was no direct evidence that Hama was present at the time of the murder - he took part in the planning but "had realised the error of becoming directly involved in the killing".

Hama's car was outside his home throughout the morning of the killing and his mobile phone could not be linked to the murder scene.

Mr Swift said Hama got his information on the killing from others, including Ari Mahmod.

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Article which tells the stories of three individuals in same sex relationships. They were all physically and emotionally abused by their partners. Here is a link to the web page.

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Typical framing of partner abuse as a heterosexual issue-with men abusing women-does a disservice to victims in abusive homosexual relationships.

Two months into their relationship, Chris's boyfriend José pushed him to the ground in a fit of anger and ripped the clothes off his body. "We had gone out dancing, and when we got home, I was changing in front of him," said Chris, 34.

"I had on my favorite pair of underwear; it was the pair I had worn the first time we went out. He saw the underwear, and just flew into a rage, saying, 'How dare you wear those! Those are for me!'"

José threw him on the floor of their bedroom closet, and smashed the only light bulb in the room, leaving them in darkness. He loomed above Chris on the floor as he tore the underwear away. That was the first time things had ever turned violent between the two.

"I was in such a state of shock," Chris recounted seven years later, his fingers tapping at a wine glass stem and his brown eyes drifting. "I thought, 'Oh, he's just jealous; it's the drinking,' and I let it go. There was a lot of drinking in this relationship. No drugs, but lots of drinking."

The second time was worse. "He was angry at something-I can't remember what-and I was laughing," said Chris. José again became incensed, strode into the kitchen and grabbed a butcher knife. "He pulled me by my hair, had me on my knees and had the butcher knife at my neck."

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Suffered domestic abuse from Grimsby. Abused by woman, Michelle Williamson, he suffered bleach to the eyes, burnt with an iron, beaten with a hammer and had boiling water poured on his lap twice. The victim also had cigarettes stuffed up his nose and was expected to sleep with them in.