Monster who gouged mum's eyes out transferred to 'cushy' open prison Monster SHANE JENKIN has a parole hearing - but brave Tina also 'can't believe' his latest custody change. 'The only thing I've ever wanted to do is just be a mum and look after my kids and this has all just turned into a circus for me' Shane Jenkin attacked Tina Nash 13 years ago. He was put behind bars and was locked up in a maximum-security prison where he belonged, but now, Tina, 44, has learned that Jenkin, 45, is a step closer to walking the streets again. The authorities have approved his transfer to an open prison – a move that often serves as preparing prisoners for release. Terrified Tina fears no one will be safe from him this time. She said: “I am living in fear of this beast turning up... but why should I be the one worried, why can I not live in peace? His eyes go black when he turns. He has no feelings, there is no empathy in him – he’s a monster. If he is released he will kill. It is as simple as that.” Jenkin was jailed for life in 2012 after admitting inflicting grievous bodily harm. He was ordered to serve a minimum of six years for what police said was the most shocking domestic assault they had ever had to deal with. The year before, he subjected Tina to an agonising attack at her home in Hayle, Cornwall. He gouged Tina’s eyes and severely beat her, breaking her nose and jaw before holding her prisoner for 12 hours. He had watched a DVD featuring eye gouging the night before the vicious attack, Truro Crown Court heard. Det Insp Chris Strickland, of Devon and Cornwall Police, said afterwards that the force believed Jenkin had strangled Tina into unconsciousness first so that he could inflict the appalling injuries. He said: “It was a premeditated, sustained and vicious attack on a defenceless woman.” Medics initially hoped they might be able to save one of her eyes, but ultimately they were unable to do so, and the young mum was left completely blind a month before she turned 30. Her sons were aged 13 and 3 at the time of the attack. Jenkin has made multiple applications for parole, which have all failed, but now with his planned transfer to a category D prison, Tina fears he may return to Cornwall – and worse. Open prisons have less security and can allow eligible prisoners to leave the jail on licence to carry out work or education in the community. Tina says: “I know he regrets not finishing me off. I still have a voice. If I wasn’t here to tell the story I would have been swept under the carpet and become just another statistic and he would have been clear to come out, get a new girlfriend and start the cycle of abuse all over again. “So I know next time he hurts someone he is going to finish them off. He should be in maximum security for the rest of his days, not allowed to live in peace and freedom at some soft jail. It’s disgusting.” When Tina met Jenkin, he pursued her relentlessly until she agreed to date him. However it was not long until the violence and beatings began – and at one point he threw her down the stairs. Yet she stood by him. Tina says: “When he changed and began to hit me it may sound stupid but I didn’t even realise I was a victim. I thought that somehow I had done something wrong, that my behaviour had made him snap, that I had somehow pushed him. He told me he had never harmed women before and I believed him, only to find out after I lost my sight that that was obviously not true. All that time I thought it was my fault.” Thinking she could change him, Tina stayed, even defending him in court. She says: “I always thought women were silly for sticking with men that hit them. I didn’t understand it but then when it happened to me and he blamed me, I made excuses for him and became just like them. It took me far too long to realise I was the victim, I only realised after he took my sight. She says: “I feel abandoned by the system, alone, like I have been deceived. I am the one sat in the dark, suffering. He is in prison getting all the help he needs while I have to wait months just to see a counsellor. I have kept quiet about this for 10 years but I cannot any longer. I don’t particularly want to speak out but feel like I have to now because it feels like nobody is fighting my corner. “He took everything from me when he took my sight. I cannot see my sons. I wanted to be a nurse, I wanted to care for people, but that’ll never happen now. I live in this dark room every day. I used to be really sociable but you won’t catch me out now. I can barely go to the shops. There is no depth to the darkness I am forced to live in. It goes on for ever and it is around me for ever, it suffocates me. I can never, ever get away from it. You never come to terms with it. I want to get on with my life but just don’t feel like I can while he gets ever closer to freedom, so that’s why I am speaking out now. If I don’t speak up, who will?”