A “vile and pathetic” former paratrooper subjected his girlfriend to a year of hellish abuse while trying to make up for his actions with “schoolboy poetry”. Dean O’Hanlon, 36, made a series of disgusting actions to his partner including striking her with a broom, dog cage and bathroom door. He also pushed and kicked her around her home. O’Hanlon called his girlfriend a “fat, ugly, useless rat” and a “horrible mess”. The former soldier also told her to kill herself, according a report in