Robert Easom violently assaulted Trudi Burgess, from Chorley, when she threatened to leave himA “violent and controlling bully” who broke his partner’s neck, leaving her paralysed and her life “destroyed”, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.Robert Easom, a landscape gardener, violently assaulted Trudi Burgess, a schoolteacher and former singer, when she threatened to leave him after enduring eight years of coercive, controlling behaviour.In the UK, call the national domestic abuse helpline...