The victim did not seek medical help for the wound

A woman ripped a hole in her husband’s scrotum when she picked him up by his testicles during a row.

Andrew Collings was left with a 2″ by 1″ hole in his scrotum after the attack at the hands of his now ex-wife Catherine Collings, 51.

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During a campaign of violence against her ex-husband, Collings also left him blind in one eye after poking his eyes with her fingers.

And on the day she ripped a hole in his scrotum, she beat Mr Collings, who lost a leg in a car crash when he was 20, with his crutch.


Despite the string of horrific violence, Collings has avoided jail, having been handed a suspended sentence at Exeter Crown Court.

It was part of a campaign of violence (Picture: Getty)

Mr Collings was left in ‘excruciating pain’ after the attack on his genitals left him with a ‘burning pain consistent with a nerve injury’.



But he did not seek medical help to stitch up the wound because he wanted to protect his wife.

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Prosecutor Jonathan Barnes said the couple had been married for 30 years and had a number of grown up children.

He said police became involved when Mr Collings went to hospital in April 2014 with a dislocated lens in his left eye – and his right eye was also damaged.

He told the surgeon he had fallen into a hedge but later told the truth when the medic said ‘blunt trauma’ had been used on both eyes.

Mr Collings said she wouldn’t stop her attacks because ‘she was enjoying it’.

In a police interview, Collings, from Torquay, Devon, admitted she had attacked her husband but said it was ‘not one-sided’.

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She confessed to grabbing him by his genitalia but said he ‘had provoked her’.

Kevin Hopper, defending, said Collings suffered from anxiety and personality disorders, adding: ‘These are nasty and deeply unpleasant offences.’

Collings pleaded guilty to two charges of inflicting grievous bodily harm and three counts of causing actual bodily harm.

Collings was sentenced at Exeter Crown Court (Picture: Alamy)

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.

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‘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.

An indefinite restraining order was made banning her from any contact with her ex-husband.