A TV weather presenter says her children begged her not to come home as they feared her abusive husband would kill her.
ITV’s Ruth Dodsworth was told to stay away on the day she called police about Jonathan Wignall.
Ruth, 46, said: “My children basically said, ‘Mum, don’t come home because he will kill you’.
“He’d been on a drink-fuelled rampage for 24 hours.
"I was used to that. But at this point I told him I wanted a divorce.
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“He couldn’t tighten his grip any more.
"This is a man who basically said to me, ‘If I can’t have you, no one else can’.
“If I hadn’t dialled 999 I wouldn’t be alive.”
Ruth is speaking out to highlight economic abuse.
She has no savings as nightclub owner Wignall managed their finances.
He was jailed for three years in 2021 for stalking and coercive control but served only 18 months.
