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A woman ripped a hole in her husband's scrotum after lifting him up from his testicles during a heated row, a court has heard.
Exeter Crown Court heard that Devon-based Andrew Collings suffered from a two-inch by one-inch hole in his scrotum after his now ex-wife Catherine Collings attacked him, the Metro reports.
Collings, who lost his leg in a car crash when he was 20, was the victim of a sequence of domestic violence incidents during the course of his 30-year marriage. In one episode, he was left blind in one eye after his wife poked his eyes with her fingers.
Collings was left with a 'burning pain consistent with a nerve injury' as a result from the attack on his genitals.
Despite being the victim of the torment, Collings didn't not want to seek medical assistance as he wanted to protect his wife.
Prosecutor Jonathan Barnes told the court that the police intervened in April 2014, when Collings finally went to hospital with a dislodged left eye and a damaged right eye.
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He initially told hospital staff that he had fallen into a hedge. However, he later confessed to the ordeal when the medic concluded the injuries were sustained from 'blunt trauma'.
Following her husband's hospital visit, Collings confessed to attacking her husband on multiple occasions but insisted that it was 'not one-sided'.
Collings pleaded guilty to two charges of inflicting grievous bodily harm and three counts of causing actual bodily harm.
Speaking in court, recorder, Simon Levene, said: "You have admitted five offences over a prolonged period against a victim, your husband, already grievously disabled.
"In effect he has lost the sight in one eye as a result of a series of assaults which are unforgivable.
"I will treat you as a man inflicting this damage on his wife - very, very severe injuries indeed."
She was handed a two-year jail sentence suspended for two years.
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