A Brighton man has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for subjecting a woman to years of domestic abuse and controlling behavior. Shaun Kent, 31, from Sandhurst Road in Brighton, routinely abused his victim, Darcy, over a four-year period, taking control of many aspects of her life and subjecting her to psychological and physical attacks.
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Kent, a bricklayer, deleted Darcy’s social media accounts and turned up unannounced at social occasions, behaving violently and threateningly. Sometimes, he would show up at locations Darcy had not revealed to him, suggesting that he was monitoring her movements. When physically out of his reach, he would bombard her with texts and phone calls. The controlling behavior was part of a concerted effort to stop his victim from speaking to other men under any circumstances, including members of her own family.
