Lying in her hospital bed, Esther Garrity was unrecognisable from the bubbly, pretty young woman she should have been. Beaten so badly she had an imprint of a Doc Marten boot left on her face, Esther’s distraught mother could only tell it was her daughter from her eyebrows. She sustained multiple blows, knocking her teeth out and leaving her with brain injuries that put her in a coma for weeks and having to learn to walk, talk and eat again.And it was all inflicted by the man Esther thought she