CONTROLLING THUG STARVES BED-RIDDEN GIRLFRIEND & BANS HER FROM TOILET IN 'MERCY KILLING' BID
Jack Preston, 29, left disabled Katya Aleksova in agony for up to 120 hours after he hid the toilet paper and ordered her to ''hold it in.'' Prosecutor Sarah Badrawy said Preston forced Katya to "hold in her faeces for over 120 hours" - causing her agonising pain.When Katya was eventually allowed to go to the toilet, her heart rate increased and left her paralysed for an hour so she was unable to clean herself.
Preston has now been jailed for 20 months after pleading guilty to controlling or coercive behaviour plus other offences of criminal damage theft and assaulting a PC.
Ms Badrawy said: "On May 14, 2025 police responded to a 999 call from Miss Katya Aleksova, where the defendant interrupted the call by grabbing the phone from her." Sentencing Preston, Judge Simon Berkson told him: "For an extended period of time you committed an unhappy list of offences, in relation to a person who was significantly disabled at the time.
She required love and attention rather than the disgraceful and cruel way in which you treated her over that period.
The different ways you controlled and coerced Miss Aleksova was clearly upsetting and injurious to her.
Your behaviour was despicable and disgraceful and was intended to humiliate and degrade the victim in some very unusual and upsetting ways."
