Husband Pleads Guilty to Physically and Verbally Abusing Wife After $12K ‘Waste of Money’ Tummy Tuck

A man in Somerset, England, is serving a 27-month prison sentence after he pleaded guilty on September 4 to coercive control and grievous bodily harm against his wife. He was also served with an 11-year restraining order, until their youngest child turns 18.

Time served while awaiting trial was counted toward Martin Redding‘s sentence, according to a report filed Tuesday, November 10, by The U.S. Sun, so the remainder of his sentence is 13 months, which reportedly has his wife, Katrina Davey, worried.

“I am scared that he will come back; I don’t think he will let this lie,” said Davey, 36, per The U.S. Sun.

Redding, 38, reportedly asked Davey to come to his house on June 4 so they could talk after she left him, per the paper. There, her husband allegedly slammed her against the wall and kicked her repeatedly, fracturing her tibia and cutting her hands open, as seen in photos shared by the outlet.

“As I lay on the floor bleeding in pain, the pain from my injuries was nothing compared to the pain I felt hearing my son’s screams of terror,” Davey said, per The U.S. Sun. “I felt the weight of his body across mine as he tried to protect me, stop my bleeding, while shouting for help.”

“He believed he had to save me. No child should ever experience that. No child should ever carry that memory,” she continued of her child. “He still blames himself, even though none of it was his fault, and that breaks my heart every day.”

Davey also shared that Redding allegedly paid for a tummy tuck in 2023, according to the paper, “so that I would ‘look better,’ but once I had it, he told me that he needed a refund as I looked horrible. He demanded that I pay him back as I looked awful and it was a waste of his money.”

“I hated how I looked; I dropped [70 pounds] in one year and was diagnosed with body dysmorphia,” Davey added.

In April 2026, while a social worker was visiting to help with one of her children’s mental health, the stay-at-home mother of five reportedly burst into tears and opened up about the alleged abuse, per the paper. Shortly afterward, she reportedly separated from Redding and applied for a child arrangement order.

“For 16 years, he subjected me to verbal, physical and emotional abuse,” Davey alleged, per The U.S. Sun. “Our home should have been a place where we felt safe, loved and protected, but instead it became a place of fear. Every day we lived in fear, walking on eggshells — not knowing what would happen next.”