Mother suffered horrific burns when her ex-boyfriend broke into her house, threw a full kettle of boiling water over her because she dumped him

Suzanne Thomas, 33, had boiling water poured on her arms, legs, stomach and crotch by Jason McLean, 36, on the day after she broke up with him. McLean, who was later jailed for 14 years, broke into her home and held Ms Thomas at knifepoint before kicking her to the ground, stamping on her head and dousing her in boiling water.

The domestic abuser then calmly filled up the kettle and put it on again but a friend of his victim also in the house managed to flag down a police car outside and McLean fled. 

The 33-year-old suffered 27 per cent burns all over her stomach, legs and crotch and scalding marks all down her arms as she tried to protect herself from the water. 

McLean, 36, went on the run but chillingly tracked Suzanne to the hospital where she was being treated. 

He sneaked into her hospital room and told her: 'You haven't seen anything yet - if you think this is bad see what comes next.'

But he was finally arrested before he could carry out his threats and is now serving a 14-year sentence after being jailed in 2014.

She said

'It was absolutely the worst pain I have ever been in. It felt like someone was ripping sheets of skin off me - but slowly.

'He was in a complete rage - staring straight through me. He was in a total and blind rage.

'At first I was angry, and then after seeing him smirking in court all I wanted was to see him get a good sentence - and I think he did.

'What Jason did to me that night has completely changed my life - I can't even face having a bath as a fear of water still haunts me.

'I don't feel ashamed and I don't feel angry any more; I just feel sad. I feel sad that a man could do that to someone.

'I couldn't do that to my worst enemy.'

Suzanne met McLean in a nightclub in March 2013 and they instantly hit it off and he moved into her home in Nottingham six months later.

But within days he had become controlling and jealous and she threw him out after a few weeks living together.

She then went out with friend and returned with one girlfriend in the early hours to find her living room window open and McLean inside with a knife.

He jumped out of the window and forced her to open the door while her friend ran for help.

Suzanne recalled: 

'I was trying to calm him down, but he just wasn't hearing it.

'He started kicking me and I fell to the ground and he carried on with the kicking, and stamping on my head.

'That's when I don't know if I passed out briefly because when I went to sit up he was holding a kettle above me.

'He poured that directly on my lap, all down my legs and my stomach.

'I was screaming.

'He said 'do you want another one?' and he went back to the kitchen, but that's when the police came.

'I went straight into shock and then it felt freezing cold. The pain was horrific.'

Suzanne was rushed to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham where she spent three weeks wrapped chest to toe in bandages and on a cocktail of painkillers.