A FORMER partner of the man on trial accused of murdering his new bride before dumping her body in a suitcase has spoken of the violence she suffered at his hands.

Kimberley Allcock was with Thomas Nutt for ten years and they had three children together, she told Bradford Crown Court.

In the first two years he was fine, never violent or aggressive, but in 2007 he attacked her after a dispute over a child’s name.

Miss Allcock said: “He went mad and punched me in the head constantly. I was on the floor begging him to stop.”

She was covered in blood and bruised after he struck her repeatedly in the face with his fist. He locked her in the house afterwards and took her phone so she couldn’t call the police.

Miss Allcock told the jury Nutt became ‘a Jekyll and Hyde character’; he could be very loving and pleasant but when he lost his temper, he would go mad.

He would become so focussed on his anger that nothing would get through to him and nothing would calm him down, she said.

Nutt, 45, of Shirley Grove, Lightcliffe, denies murdering his new wife Dawn Walker shortly after their wedding on October 27 last year. He has pleaded guilty to her manslaughter.

The court has heard that Nutt killed her, stuffed her body in a suitcase and dumped it in fields near his home.

The Crown alleges that he left 52-year-old Miss Walker’s body in a cupboard and went ‘on honeymoon’ to Skegness before acting out the ‘ghastly charade’ of looking for her saying she had disappeared.

Today, Miss Allcock said Nutt repeatedly asked her to marry him but she refused. She felt like a prisoner and couldn’t get away from him.

In February, 2015, they were watching television at about 9pm when he began to swear and shout at her. She could see the aggression in his face. He was sweating and his pupils changed.

She went to bed and was woken by Nutt. He threw some headache tablets at her face then grabbed her forcibly round her throat and sat on her chest.

“I began to panic because I thought he was going to kill me,” she said. “I put my fingers round his throat to get him off me.”

She went downstairs and he pushed her, grabbed her throat and punched her in the head about eight or nine times with his clenched fist.

“I dropped to the floor. He was just continuously punching me again,” she said.

She put her hands over her head to try to stop him hitting her. He had saliva coming from his mouth and his face was very aggressive.

Miss Allcock said her pyjama top was covered in blood. He grabbed her by the throat and punched her in the face again three or four times.

The jurors were shown photographs of the injuries to Miss Allcock’s face and neck and a laceration to the top of her head that was glued in hospital.

Nutt was charged with common assault and pleaded not guilty. He gave evidence in the magistrates’ court that Miss Allcock had assaulted him but he was convicted.

Miss Allcock got a restraining order preventing him from coming to her house.

In July, 2020, Dawn Walker contacted her on Facebook messenger to ask why the order was in place. Nutt had told her that Miss Allcock had cheated on him and lied to the police.

Miss Allcock said she informed Miss Walker that Nutt had beaten her up and been found guilty of assaulting her.

Miss Walker then said she couldn’t understand why he was so nasty to her and Miss Allcock advised her to be careful.

Miss Walker said Nutt ‘scared the hell out of her.’

In August, 2020, Miss Walker said Nutt had nearly killed her. He had bruised her face and tried to suffocate her but had then panicked when he saw all the blood.

Miss Allcock then sent her photos of the injuries Nutt had caused to her.

Dawn said her face was a mess and that there were bruises to her tummy where he had knelt on her and bruises on her arms and legs.

Miss Walker next said she felt nasty going behind Nutt’s back, that he was trying hard to please her, but the damage had been done. She said she would have him arrested if he did the same to her again.

Miss Walker then told her Nutt had been arrested after assaulting her. She sent images of her face which was red and swollen. She said that he was to be charged and was going to court.

She was questioning herself about why she had been taken in by Nutt and why she had been so weak.

Miss Allcock told the court he was manipulative and had made her feel like she couldn’t leave.

Miss Walker told her she had dropped the charges but the police were making her go to court.

She later asked Dawn if Nutt was back with her and she said: ‘No, not yet.’

The trial continues.