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“No one should have to live in that way.”

The former couple met in 2001, a year after Ruth became a weather presenter, and married in 2002.

Jonathan’s controlling behaviour began around 2010 when the couple moved from Swansea to Cowbridge and she became their main breadwinner when his nightclub business started to fail.

But rather than celebrate her success, he grew envious and obsessive, setting alarms to check Ruth’s nightly forecasts on TV and calling her dozens of times a day demanding to know where she was and who she was with.

He would also turn up to her broadcast locations and demand they eat lunch together, rather than sit in the studio canteen.

Jonathan also held control over her phone and would delete contacts he did not like and watch her shower to make sure she wasn’t on her phone.

He even placed a tracking device under the steering wheel of her car and would slap her if she fell asleep before him at night.

After Jonathan, the father of her two children, was sentenced, she appeared on ITV show This Morning to tell her story and to urge other victims to report their own abusers.