Liz Shanks installed cameras around her home to protect her prized collection of classic cars – but instead, they captured the escalating and violent domestic abuse carried out by her former partner.
The harrowing recordings show repeated attacks in which Chris Forrest strangles Liz, pins her to the ground, and throttles her against a wall in the driveway.
In one, he screams "you are going to die in my hands you wee cow" as she gasps for breath.
The videos proved pivotal in a 2022 court case when Forrest was jailed for 27 months for attacks on Liz spanning three years.
Faced with the CCTV evidence, Forrest pleaded guilty to four charges.
But as part of a plea negotiation, commonly known as a plea deal, prosecutors agreed to drop the other seven charges against him.
Liz, a 36-year-old firefighter from Blantyre in South Lanarkshire, says she was "devastated" when she discovered that those charges had been dropped.
