A woman has recounted how a devoted relationship to her partner grew more and more dangerous until he tried to run her down with his car as she stood in a Sydney McDonald's.
Reading out her victim impact statement during a sentence hearing for Abbas Hayder Al-Khafaji on Thursday, the woman who cannot be legally named said she wholeheartedly threw herself into the relationship with her partner.
Originally sticking by Al-Khafaji despite his recreational drug use in the hope he would stop, she said he eventually became possessive, paranoid and sometimes aggressive towards her.
