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Gizzi Jailed for Abuse and Strangulation
John Gizzi, 55, of St Asaph, was sentenced Thursday at Mold Crown Court to four years and 11 months after guilty pleas for coercive control of Natasha Farah and for strangling her sister. A four-month phone-PIN term runs at the same time.
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The pleas are convictions, and four years and 11 months is what Judge Simon Mills imposed for coercive control, strangulation, and the phone PIN. The brain injury Natasha Farah is living with was not charged against him. The judge said that injury is not part of this sentence.
Mold Crown Court on Thursday sentenced John Gizzi, 55, of Cwttir Lane in St Asaph, to four years for coercive control of Natasha Farah and to 11 further months for intentionally strangling her sister, Samantha. A four-month term for refusing to give police the PIN to his phone runs at the same time. Judge Simon Mills also imposed a restraining order and a domestic abuse protection order, each lasting 15 years. Gizzi, who pleaded guilty last month, appeared from prison by video.
He and Farah began a relationship in 2024. The court heard that he punched her, threatened her with a dumbbell, rammed a car she was in, and sent messages telling her to die. At a pub in Colwyn Bay, after Samantha challenged him, he gripped her neck with both hands. She fell to the floor with marks on her neck.
On April 7 he found Farah at her flat in Rhos-on-Sea after she had tried to hang herself, and he called for help. She is still in hospital, unresponsive, with serious brain damage. Prosecutors told the judge they were not alleging that Gizzi caused that injury. Judge Mills said nothing on the indictment makes Gizzi directly responsible for it, and he called the coercive control one of the worst cases of its kind the court had seen.
All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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