‘If a man is being controlling, get away. It will just get worse’

A woman who had boiling water with sugar poured over her leg said after her ex-boyfriend was jailed yesterday that women should get out of relationships with possessive and violent men.

“If they feel any man is controlling them or being paranoid get away from them, it will only get worse,” Tara Byrd said yesterday after Michael Lynch, aged 25, was jailed for two and a half years for assault causing harm to her.

Ms Byrd, 25, and her father, Willie Byrd, felt the sentence was light in terms of the pain and fear she went through.