The report recounts how, in March 2023, Val texted a relative and Kim in the early hours, sending them a video of himself indicating he was going to end his life.

He ended the messages with “goodbye”.

Police officers forced their way into his King’s Lynn home, and found the man sat opposite the front door. Despite the efforts of the emergency services, he could not be revived.

An inquest into his death was held at Norfolk Coroner's Court last August.

Assistant coroner Christopher Leach did not give a verdict of suicide after toxicology analysis showed the combination of recreational cocaine and alcohol found in Val's system would have increased risk taking behaviour.

Instead, he recorded a narrative conclusion, stating Val had died “having applied a ligature to his own neck, his intentions when doing so being unknown".

Norfolk Coroner's Court in Norwich (Image: Denise Bradley)

The report described how Val had met Kim at a rave in 2013, when he was 17 and she was 16. The couple went on to have an on/off relationship for several years.

Police first attended incidents of domestic violence between the couple in 2015, a pattern which would continue until Val’s death.

Val reported enduring several assaults, including being locked out of his house, punched in the jaw, hit around the face with a wine bottle and being forced to drink to excess.

He would contact his family with pictures of injuries he claimed Kim had caused including bruising, cuts and bleeding.

During one 999 call Val made to the police, he is described as sounding “frantic” as the “smashing of items could be heard in the background”.

In 2018, during one such incident, Val made a complaint of assault against Kim who went on to assault the arresting officer, something she was later convicted of.

She would later attend an online female perpetrator domestic abuse course following a conditional........

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