A thug beat his girlfriend and then tied himself to her as he slept so she couldn’t escape 

A thug with a mutt tattooed on the side of his face kept his girlfriend on a leash at night to stop her from escaping during two weeks of terror.

Every night Mongrel Mob member Thomas Coffin, 37, would loop a cord around his girlfriend’s neck, ankles and wrists. He would then tie her to himself, a court has heard.

The pair had been together for three years and had a two-year-old son together, but that didn’t stop Coffin from erupting into a jealous rage, Stuff reported.

Mongrel Mob member Thomas Coffin (pictured) would loop a cord around his girlfriend’s neck, ankles and wrists. He would then tie her to himself

The 20-year-old’s two-week horror began on March 19 last year. They were at a friend’s home in Te Kuiti, New Zealand, when Coffin grabbed her phone and began searching through it because of his jealous over a previous relationship.

It is not clear if there was anything on the phone that caused him to explode, but he then punched his girlfriend in the face.

He grabbed her by her hair, punching and kicking her as he dragged her to a bedroom.

He viciously beat his girlfriend for 45 minutes. That night, while she was sleeping in the living room with their young son, he kicked her several times.

After giving his girlfriend two black eyes, a bloody face and a bruised body he decided she needed to be tied up while they slept.

She was whipped with a belt and at one stage he forced her to say she was ‘a s***’  while he recorded it on his cellphone.

He would point a sawn-off .22 rifle at her multiples times a day. During the ordeal she had a bullet fired at her, it narrowly missed her, skimming past her shoulder, while she was sitting out the front of the house.

Before aiming he asked if she ‘wanted to die today’.

He threatened to shoot her and kill her family if she went to the police or tried to run away.

In the early hours one morning she finally freed herself by running with her son to a police station.

Police searched for months for Coffin before he was eventually arrested.

He was sentenced to seven years and nine months behind bars in the Hamilton District Court on Friday on multiple charges including kidnapping, assault with a weapon, male assaults female and injuring with intent to injure. 

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