Sentencing was today adjourned on a 34 year-old Derry man who has admitted physically and sexually abusing his partner over several years.

Greg Logue, 34, of Duddy’s Court in the Waterside area of the city, put Terri-Louise Graham through years of abuse.

Terri-Louise (pictured above after one of the attacks) has bravely waived her right to anonymity to urge other people suffering domestic violence to seek help.

Logue was due to be sentenced today at Derry Crown Court after pleading guilty to eight counts of indecent sexual assault and six counts of common assault that took place between 2008 and 2011.

Seven rape charges and threats to kill have been left on the books.

However, the sentencing was adjourned until next Friday because a doctor for the defence was not in court today.

Logue is currently serving a nine year sentence; three and a half years will be served in prison and the remainder on licence for a brutal attack in July 2011.

Speaking to the Derry News earlier this week, Terri-Louise said she first met Logue when she was around 17 years-old.

She and Logue eventually moved in together and Terri-Louise suffered her first beating while she was three months pregnant with their child.

“He grabbed my hair and pulled me down the street and started punching me in the face and bit me on the side of the face,” she said.

“As soon as he saw cars coming, he pulled me into him as if he was hugging me.

“He beat the life out of me, the blood was pouring out of me. I had never been hit in my life, that was 2008 and that was my first beating.”

Terri-Louise said Logue apologised and pleaded with her, saying he would never do this again.
She said she was ‘so ashamed and embarrassed’ and often ‘covered herself in make-up’ to hide the injuries.

Terri-Louise said that during the next incident Logue raped her for the first time.

“I cried the whole way through it,” she said.

“You don’t expect that from the person that’s supposed to love you. When I was crying, he was wiping my tears and saying, ‘What’s the matter baby, it wasn’t like that’.”

On another occasion, Logue raped Terri-Louise outside her mother’s house.

She said her mother was babysitting her children and she could see her bedroom light was on but she was too afraid to cry out as she didn’t want her mother seeing what was happening to her.
Details of other depraved sexual assaults are too graphic to print.

Terri-Louise said the frequency of the beatings and sexual assaults ‘normalised’ them and carried on throughout her pregnancies.

She said that she ‘repeatedly’ tried to get away from Logue but he was ‘so manipulative’ he had ‘a hold over her’.

She continued: “My whole point of telling this story is because I want women to realise that if you don’t stop it, if you don’t get away from it, you’re going to end up in same the situation I was lucky to get out of alive.

“He was going to kill me, there was no doubt about it.

“I know so many wee girls in this town are going through early, middle and maybe even the later stages of what I went through.

“I hate hearing, ‘But mine was never as bad as what you went through’ because to be scared of a punch, to be scared of being hurt, to not be able to function, Your face might not look like mine did but you’re still living a life of fear and nobody deserves that.

“There are young girls at 16 or 17 going through all this and I want them to read this. I’ve had young girls contact me through Facebook and I have no problem with that because if they want to talk, I’m there.

“Eventually, when I have dealt with all this, I would like to be a counsellor and work for somewhere like Women’s Aid.

“When a woman comes to me, I understand because I’ve lived it.

“You cannot stay in a relationship because the only reason you’re there is because you’re petrified.”

She added: “I don’t think that I’ll ever forget about it but I’m glad that I did what I done and got help.

“It’s not easy but go and look for help and get out.”

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