Like many domestic abusers, Meshach Clement-Graham, previously of Northampton, bided his time when he first entered into a relationship with the survivor in 2018, acting charming and compassionate.
“You didn’t start off as a monster,” wrote the woman in her victim impact statement. “It was a calculated, dangerously slow and gradual process. You consistently did the work you needed to break me, like clockwork. You mixed your abuse with sporadic nice treatment, to keep me thinking maybe it wasn’t so bad. You gaslighted me and manipulated me until truth became a lie and a lie became a truth.”
In a single night, Clement-Graham phoned the woman 80 times before turning up at her house threatening to harm himself with scissors if she didn’t let him in. This led to him being sentenced to a two year community order and remanded into custody as he breached a number of domestic violence protection orders in committing these offences.
