A MAN who lined up a woman and shot at her with an air rifle, rubbed her face in dog poo and forced her to cut her legs with tweezers in almost four years of “horrific” abuse has been jailed for more than five years. 

Carl Vasey, of The Oaks, Newbury, also subjected the woman to physical, mental abuse including slapping, punching, kicking, spitting and sending her ‘degrading’ emails. 

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Vasey and the woman met in late 2016 and over the next three years, he would subject her to horrendous abuse through a number of incidents, including: 

  • Repeated slapping
  • Standing her against a garden shed and telling her to choose where she would like to be with an automatic air rifle 
  • Expecting her to pay for his cannabis habit and sex apparatus for himself (including a penis pump and penis development cream)
  • Dragging her to a mirror by her hair and spitting on her
  • Making her cut her legs with tweezers
  • Rubbing her face in dog poo

The last incident which prompted the woman to report Vasey’s abuse saw him punch her in the mouth and consequently dislodge one of her teeth. He also punched her in the eye. 

The woman text a contact to “plan her escape” from Vasey’s house and she was later picked up and taken to hospital. 

She reported Vasey to police on March 17, 2020, and he was arrested one week later. 

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In a police interview, he claimed the woman had received no injuries and that she had assaulted him -- statements which were untrue. 

However, following a June trial, Vasey was convicted of one count of engaging in controlling or coercive behaviour, four counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and one count of assault by beating. 

The 24-year-old was due to be sentenced for his violent crimes following a hearing in September, but this was adjourned over concerns about assessments of Vasey’s risk to the public after a report suggested he posed a ‘low risk’.

Reading Chronicle: Carl Vasey. Image via FacebookCarl Vasey. Image via Facebook

Vasey was remanded in custody following this postponement but he was back in court on Friday, October 14 where he learned his long-term fate. 

His Honour Judge Paul Dugdale handed him a five-year and four-month prison sentence for the five convictions. 

Back in September, Judge Dugdale said: “These offences are extreme. This was really worrying behaviour.

“It was utterly horrific.”