Ms Dawes’ suicide note, written on her phone, meant she had named and blamed her killer, “from beyond the grave”, Wellings’ trial heard. But he was cleared of her manslaughter and convicted of assault ...

Shortly after writing the note on her phone, Ms Dawes left it and their nine-month-old daughter with a friend before taking her own life on 22 July 2022. Paul Greaney KC cited the suicide note in ...

HEARING the news of Kiena Dawes’ tragic death, Zoe Castle feels nothing but devastation. Mum-of-one Kiena, 23, took her own life after suffering years of abuse at the hands of her partner Ryan ...

Ryan Wellings subjected his vulnerable fiancée Ms Dawes to years of sickening domestic abuse and brutal beatings. Tragically, the new mother took her own life on a railway line on July 22 ...

The 30-year-old also urged Ms Dawes to kill herself, boasted that 'hitting you is like hitting a man' and, on one occasion, dunked her head in a bath and said: 'Say goodbye to your baby'.

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The boyfriend of a young mother who took her own life has been found guilty of assault and prolonged domestic violence but cleared of her manslaughter. Ryan Wellings, from Bispham in Lancashire ...

Wellings, who had denied all charges, made no reaction as the verdicts were read out. Ms Dawes' sister wept and her mother looked straight ahead as Wellings was cleared of manslaughter.

In his closing speech for the defence, John Jones KC told Preston Crown Court Ms Dawes' death was not caused "in any significant degree" by his client. He said the couple's "party lifestyle" was a ...

At his sentencing hearing Paul Greaney KC, prosecuting, urged the judge to sentence Wellings on the basis that his conduct "formed the background and set the scene" for Ms Dawes' death.

Those were the stark words Kiena Dawes typed into her mobile phone before she took her own life in July 2022. In the same note, the 23-year-old mother-of-one from Fleetwood in Lancashire described ...