MUM battered and tortured by a serial brute has told how she feared he would kill her during a terrifying all-night attack.
Vicious Alastair Nicolson, 55, regularly choked and headbutted his victim and stubbed cigarettes out on her before a final beating left her “unrecognisable” and missing teeth.
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The woman, now a 48-year-old mother, waited more than two decades to see him jailed for 14 years this month for a campaign of violence against her and two other victims, including a schoolgirl.
Recalling the moment she believed she would die at his hands, she said: “His attacks on me had escalated. One day took me to a remote place.
“He wanted to do a lot of damage and I thought he would kill me.
“He’d broken my wrist and my cheekbone before but this was much worse. He stamped on my face with his big boots on. I lost my two front teeth.
“He choked me and hit me on the head with a vodka bottle then dragged me by the hair. It went on all night. I managed to get help by begging him to let me call my mum.
“Instead I called the police. An ambulance took me to the hospital. My face was unrecognisable. It was April 24, 2001 and the day I finally managed to get away. I’ve waited 23 years to finally see him brought to justice.”
The mum fled but was too scared to press charges — until cops knocked on her door seven years ago when two other victims of the fiend came forward.
She told how Nicolson was initially charming before slowly taking control of her life during their three-year relationship.
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The woman said: “He was nice enough at first but then one day he pushed me up against a wall.
“From then on there was psychological abuse every day. He put me down, called me names and accused me of doing things I hadn’t done and saying I’d been to places I hadn’t been.
“The physical abuse started soon after — once or twice a week.
“He tried to force me to take drugs when I was pregnant and when I refused he headbutted me and kicked me in the stomach. He regularly choked me out of the blue.
“I felt trapped and isolated as he took me away from all my friends. I had to eat what he ate because he was paranoid about getting poisoned.
“I had to leave the door of the bathroom open whenever I went to the toilet or had a bath.
“He would stub out his cigarettes on me.
“He took control of everything — my money, what music we listened to, what we watched on TV.”
Nicolson subjected another of his victims to rapes, beatings and threats. He sexually abused the child when she was on drugs before raping her. She was between 12 and 14.
Most of his crimes took place between January 1991 and April 2001 in Argyll and the Highlands.
He was nailed by a jury in Inverness in May and sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh.
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Judge Lord Weir branded his behaviour “disgraceful”.
Procurator fiscal Katrina Parkes, said: “Nicolson’s prolific offending has now been ended thanks to the courage of his victims.”
