In other evidence, the jury heard police had been called several times to the flat she and Wellings shared in Fleetwood and that in the months before her death, Ms Dawes told officers he had “absolutely leathered” her, strangled her, given her a black eye and tried to drown her in the bath.
On 4 January 2022, she called a confidential helpline run by the domestic abuse support charity Refuge.
Notes kept by the charity, which were read in court, detailed how Wellings had hit her, thrown objects at her and flung her into glass on the floor before pulling her along by her hair.
At the start of July 2022, Wellings was arrested but he denied deliberately harming Ms Dawes and was released on bail.
Two weeks later, she drove to her friend’s house, let herself in and placed her nine-month-old daughter in the living room, safely strapped into a car seat.
While her friend was in the shower, oblivious to their presence, she left her mobile phone next to her baby and drove away.
Ms Dawes took her own life shortly after.
