Kickboxer who battered girlfriend ’black and blue’ jailed for life

A "monster" who subjected his girlfriend to a series of vicious attacks that left her so badly bruised a paramedic could not tell what her race or ethnicity was has been jailed for life.

Kickboxer Dennis Ross, 33, beat Sian Davies, strangling her, hitting and punching her and using a cigarette to burn her, over the course of a weekend which ended with her in a coma and unable to tell her story to police for two months, Cardiff Crown Court heard.