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A brave mum has told of the horrifying moment she was attacked by her partner - who smashed a solid glass ashtray into her face.
Kate Scott, 41, had three teeth knocked back and her upper lip cut in half 'like a pizza cutter' by the attack.
The mother-of-three boys had been watching TV in her bedroom when her partner came in and attacked her unprovoked.
The strike was so violent her mouth filled with blood and she couldn’t speak to call 999 for help.
Kate's former partner, Mark Forder, 56, ignored her pleas for an ambulance.
Kate Scott, 41, had three teeth knocked back and her upper lip to be cut in half 'like a pizza cutter' by the attack. The strike was so violent her mouth filled with blood and she couldn’t speak to call 999 for help
The mother-of-three boys had been watching TV in her bedroom when her partner came in and attacked her unprovoked. The pair met at a pub in September 2020 and she thought he was 'charming' but things became a problem until they moved in together in April 2021
After a police investigation into the brutal domestic violence case, Forder was last week sentenced to 27 months jail time for grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent at Luton Crown Court, Beds.
Now Kate is speaking out to encourage other victims of domestic violence to 'trust their gut' and leave dangerous situations like hers, which she wishes she had done sooner.
The full-time mother, from Leighton Buzzard, Beds, said: 'When we first met he was charming, or he wanted to be.
'I would see flashes of a different personality, but they were so brief and so well explained afterwards I would doubt myself.
'When we moved in together things started to change. One night he came upstairs and started shouting at me.
'He picked up the ashtray next to my window, raised it above his head and threw it down directly into my mouth with so much force it ruined my mouth.
'The next thing I knew I can’t see, everything was white, iridescent, like you imagine heaven would be. I was choking on my own blood.
'I just want to raise the awareness that people need to trust their instincts which is what I didn’t do. I will live to regret that for the rest of my life.'
Kate was watching TV in bed after enjoying the nice June weather in 2021 when Mark came into the room post-drinking. Minutes later, as she tried to speak to the emergency responder on the phone, blood sprayed across her wall, carpet and bed.
The pair met at a pub in September 2020 but Kate said things didn’t become a problem until they moved in together in April 2021.
They moved into a two-bed housing association terraced house with the youngest two of Kate’s three children from her previous marriage, who are 19, 11 and eight years old.
From then on Forder became verbally abusive, using intimidation tactics like slamming doors 'so hard the handles came off in his hand' and saying he was recording their conversations.
A few months before the attack Kate called the police when he refused to leave their house and threatened to kill himself after getting angry at her for not watching a TV concert with him.
She said: 'He accused me of messaging people and called me a "lying little b***h". It
