Footage shows the devastating difference in a once-bubbly teenager who was paralysed after her abusive boyfriend kidnapped her.
Chay Bowskill, 20, dragged his then-girlfriend Angel Lynn, 19, into a van after they had an argument and she stormed off.
Angel then fell out of the van while Bowskill’s friend Rocco Sansome, also 20, was driving it at 60mph.
She suffered a fractured skull and has been unable to walk, talk or feed herself since the tragedy on September 17, 2020, in Rothley, Leicestershire.
Both Bowskill and Sansome were found guilty of kidnap but they were cleared of causing grievous bodily harm. They were jailed for seven-and-a-half years each.
Now, Angel’s mum Nikki, who said she is ‘disgusted with the lenient sentences’, has shared a video of her daughter to show what effect the young men really had.
The footage shows Angel lying still, with a blank look on her face, while her mum brushes her hair
Nikki told Sky News: ‘Seeing her like this kills me every day. I worry every day about not being here anymore, who is going to look out for her?
‘I think she might know me when I try and get her to give me a kiss, if I put my cheek out, she purses her lips but it takes all her energy, it’s rare.’
The devastated mum remembered how her ‘cheeky, kind, funny’ daughter ‘always looked nice’ and would always ‘run in and out of the house’.
Speaking about Bowskill and Sansome, Nikki said: ‘They’ve got no idea what they’ve done to our family’.
Leicester Crown Court previously heard Angel’s best friend detail how her year-long relationship with Bowskill turned her from an ‘outgoing and chirpy’ young woman to a ‘completely different person’.
The friend told the jury: ‘Chay told her she wasn’t allowed out and wasn’t allowed to meet me.
‘I said plenty of times to leave him, I told her to leave three or four times a week. She was being controlled.’
On the day Angel got hurt, she had driven the van to pick up Bowskill and Sansome.
But the couple started arguing and Bowskill reportedly told her he ‘hated’ her and never wanted to see her again.
So she parked the van and walked away from the men but Bowskill went after her and bundled her back in.
Bowskill was also convicted of coercive and controlling behaviour and perverting the course of justice – after he tried to get his mum to lie under oath for him.
Although he was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years, he will become eligible for release on licence after three years and nine months.
Taking into account time served on remand, this means he could leave prison in June 2024.
Angel’s mother Nikki, 47, told The Sun: ‘He’ll be out in less than three years. It makes me furious. What kind of message is that sending to monsters like him?
‘[Bowskill] can be back out trying to wreck other women’s lives while my daughter is trapped forever.’
Both sentences are being looked into by Attorney General Suella Braverman, to see if they were ‘unduly lenient’.
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