He was beaten, locked in a doghouse, humiliated and abused by his wife for at least a year. Several times she poured boiling water on him as ‘punishment’. Anna V. (47) received a prison sentence of seven years yesterday for what the court called “one of the most gruesome files ever”. Victim Rudy (48) – a pseudonym – tells his story for the first time, in an exclusive letter to our editors: “She threatened that she would kill me and dissolve me in battery acid. If I fled, she would order someone to kill me.”

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