An ex-bouncer who flew into a jealous rage and beat his 21-year-old
girlfriend so badly she didn't recognise herself has been jailed for 13
months. See photos after the cut
Dominic McCluskey, flew into a rage and attacked mum-of-one Brogan Sloan as the couple lay in bed together.
In June the victim of chilling domestic violence has bravely spoken up against the former bouncer and fighter who left her with shocking injuries.
Speaking after the beast admitted assault but before he was jailed, Brogan, who suffered a fractured nose, damage to her teeth and two black eyes in the assault, has told how she will never take her attacker back.
She told the Chronicle : “I never thought he was capable of doing this to me. I loved him and we thought we were each other’s ‘one’. He could be absolutely perfect, everyone said we seemed so happy.
"But all my feelings have completely gone now, I haven’t even cried over him. I’m glad it’s happened now, and not years down the line.
"But I just wish I had paid more attention to the warning signs. I knew he was aggressive, but I never thought he would be capable of doing something like this to anyone, nevermind someone he said he loved.”
Brogan had been in a relationship with McCluskey for around two years before his violent outburst.
The couple met through mutual friends and gradually became close. McCluskey met Brogan’s son Jackson Angus, now two, when he was just six months old and the pair quickly hit it off.
“In the beginning he was absolutely perfect,” she said. “He was so good with my little boy, I couldn’t fault him for that.
However, Brogan says she gradually saw a different side to this new man she had let into her home and life.
“It was quite a while before I saw his aggressive side,” she said. “He would lose his temper over stupid stuff and he would punch doors. He would start if a boy texted me or liked my picture on Facebook. But I tried to put it all to the back of my mind.”
Brogan and McCluskey split late last year when she finally decided she’d had enough.
“I couldn’t deal with it anymore,” she said. “I told him he had to get help.”
But after five months apart the couple were reunited when Brogan decided to give her love another chance, in January.
“He did sort himself out,” she said. “And I did miss him and I did love him.”
Brogan and McCluskey had been for a drink on Newcastle’s Quayside on the evening before the attack on May 21, she said. After returning home they went to bed, and the next thing Brogan knew she was waking-up on the bedroom floor, and McCluskey was looking through her phone.
“When I woke-up I was on the floor and I didn’t know how I got there,” she explained. “He was sat there on my phone.”
Realising his partner was awake McCluskey flew into a rage, said Brogan
“He’s a K1 fighter so he’s trained to fight, but I had never had a fight in my life,” she said. “I had never been hit.”
In a bid to calm her enraged boyfriend Brogan promised McCluskey that she would not tell anyone he was responsible for hurting her. She promised her partner that she would tell everyone she fell over in the shower.
“I think I just went into survival mode. I knew I had to get out of there and get to hospital,” she explained. “I said that just to survive.”
McCluskey’s mum, who lives nearby, took Brogan to hospital, but as soon as she arrived she told a triage nurse she had been attacked and the police were called.
Medics told the mum she had a fractured nose, while both her eyes were black and swollen.
Brogan believes McCluskey’s rage was sparked by messages he found from when they were apart.
McCluskey, of Victoria Road, Gateshead, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm, at Newcastle Crown Court . He entered his plea on the basis he only struck Brogan once.
The 21-year-old also admitted damaging property belonging Brogan, damaging two computers belonging to Northumbria Police, and assaulting an officer.
Today he was jailed for 13 months at Newcastle Crown Court
Dominic McCluskey, flew into a rage and attacked mum-of-one Brogan Sloan as the couple lay in bed together.
In June the victim of chilling domestic violence has bravely spoken up against the former bouncer and fighter who left her with shocking injuries.
Speaking after the beast admitted assault but before he was jailed, Brogan, who suffered a fractured nose, damage to her teeth and two black eyes in the assault, has told how she will never take her attacker back.
She told the Chronicle : “I never thought he was capable of doing this to me. I loved him and we thought we were each other’s ‘one’. He could be absolutely perfect, everyone said we seemed so happy.
"But all my feelings have completely gone now, I haven’t even cried over him. I’m glad it’s happened now, and not years down the line.
"But I just wish I had paid more attention to the warning signs. I knew he was aggressive, but I never thought he would be capable of doing something like this to anyone, nevermind someone he said he loved.”
Brogan had been in a relationship with McCluskey for around two years before his violent outburst.
The couple met through mutual friends and gradually became close. McCluskey met Brogan’s son Jackson Angus, now two, when he was just six months old and the pair quickly hit it off.
“In the beginning he was absolutely perfect,” she said. “He was so good with my little boy, I couldn’t fault him for that.
However, Brogan says she gradually saw a different side to this new man she had let into her home and life.
“It was quite a while before I saw his aggressive side,” she said. “He would lose his temper over stupid stuff and he would punch doors. He would start if a boy texted me or liked my picture on Facebook. But I tried to put it all to the back of my mind.”
Brogan and McCluskey split late last year when she finally decided she’d had enough.
“I couldn’t deal with it anymore,” she said. “I told him he had to get help.”
But after five months apart the couple were reunited when Brogan decided to give her love another chance, in January.
“He did sort himself out,” she said. “And I did miss him and I did love him.”
Brogan and McCluskey had been for a drink on Newcastle’s Quayside on the evening before the attack on May 21, she said. After returning home they went to bed, and the next thing Brogan knew she was waking-up on the bedroom floor, and McCluskey was looking through her phone.
“When I woke-up I was on the floor and I didn’t know how I got there,” she explained. “He was sat there on my phone.”
Realising his partner was awake McCluskey flew into a rage, said Brogan
“He’s a K1 fighter so he’s trained to fight, but I had never had a fight in my life,” she said. “I had never been hit.”
In a bid to calm her enraged boyfriend Brogan promised McCluskey that she would not tell anyone he was responsible for hurting her. She promised her partner that she would tell everyone she fell over in the shower.
“I think I just went into survival mode. I knew I had to get out of there and get to hospital,” she explained. “I said that just to survive.”
McCluskey’s mum, who lives nearby, took Brogan to hospital, but as soon as she arrived she told a triage nurse she had been attacked and the police were called.
Medics told the mum she had a fractured nose, while both her eyes were black and swollen.
Brogan believes McCluskey’s rage was sparked by messages he found from when they were apart.
McCluskey, of Victoria Road, Gateshead, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm, at Newcastle Crown Court . He entered his plea on the basis he only struck Brogan once.
The 21-year-old also admitted damaging property belonging Brogan, damaging two computers belonging to Northumbria Police, and assaulting an officer.
Today he was jailed for 13 months at Newcastle Crown Court
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