Beaten up by her boyfriend for years, she was terrified when the crazed monster grabbed her throat and throttled her on their WEDDING NIGHT.
Thankfully for Eleanor she found the courage to leave vicious Darren Jeffreys – but he went on to murder a woman he met through a dating website.
Evil Jeffreys, 47, was jailed for life last month for beating and strangling mum-of-two Karen Catherall, 45.
The court case revived all Eleanor’s nightmares from her relationship and brief marriage to the abusive and arrogant control freak.
During their years together, he throttled her three times, broke her nose four times, cracked her skull and kicked her in the teeth.
He also urinated on Eleanor, drenched her with water and forced her outside when she was wearing just a G-string.
Mum-of-four Eleanor, 45, told the Sunday People : “I was crazy to marry him, he made me feel unworthy and useless but I loved him. I’m lucky to have survived, he nearly killed me three times.”
The pair, who met at a meat processing factory in 1999, wed at register office on Valentine’s Day in 2003.
“He was boiling over with anger and carried on squeezing. Everything went white behind my eyes. I thought I was going to die.”
He stopped at the last minute. Eleanor was shocked but it was not the first time Jeffreys had tried to strangle her.
Early in their affair – Eleanor was married – he returned from a late shift and accused her of cheating on him as she had taken a bath and put on a sexy outfit.
She said: “He smacked me, leaving blood all over the floor. He strangled me until I thought I was going to die.”
Another time before their wedding, she said Jeffreys “smashed me to pieces. He picked me up and threw me at a table. I was covered in blood, my head gashed front to back, and then he peed over me. He threatened to throw my daughter over the balcony and nearly killed her.”
Eleanor, of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, reported him to police but later withdrew it.
She now feels guilty for not pressing ahead but was scared.
She left nine months into their marriage when he squeezed the throat of one of her sons.
Traumatised Eleanor found a new partner and put Jeffreys to the back of her mind until police interviewed her in September after the attack on Karen Catherall.
Sentencing him to a minimum of 17-and-a-half years, Mr Justice Wyn Williams told Jeffreys it was “senseless violence fuelled by alcohol and your possessive jealous nature.”
Eleanor recalled being on the receiving end of that violence. Two weeks after they moved into a bedsit he dragged her downstairs because she was crying as she could not see her daughter.
“He’d smash the house up, slash clothes and beat me. The following morning he’d claim he’d blacked out and take me to stay in hotels where no one would comment on my facial injuries.
"Once he kicked me out of the house, wearing only a G-string. I had to hide behind a bush in the garden.
“He’d throw a bucket of water over me as I sat on the sofa. Once he got me into a corner and stamped on me.”
Eleanor, who still has counselling for the trauma, said: “He broke my nose four times and gave me a hairline fracture on my skull.
“Now I don’t leave the house unless I need to. He smacked me in the face and kicked me in the teeth and told me nobody would want me after that.
“I dared not speak to anybody. If I spoke up to him I would get it.”
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