A daughter who had witnessed her brutal father beating her mother decided to film the video and put him in prison.
One day Maysa Rosato-Clifton, 15, filmed her lorry driver father Andrew Clifton, 53, smashing down the front door and screaming at her mother Tania.
The teenage girl knew that the video could put her own father in jail but still she took this step to save her mother from domestic violence.
Speaking to The Mirror, Maysa revealed, ”I feel quite bad I videoed it and put my dad in that situation.”
”But it needed to be shown. I was just focused on my mom. I didn’t get upset until later.”
”I remember asking my dad to stop but it carried on. I was in shock and thought I might need proof. Everything really changed that night.”
The shocking video shows Clifton smashing the glass panels and kicking the door down and Tania screams down the phone to police.
The mother, Tania, 51, said: “I’m so proud of her. She knew I’d need evidence to get a conviction.”
She continued: “I managed to kick him, he fell back and I crawled out of the house into the front garden screaming for help.”
“Then he followed me out with a kitchen knife and Maysa started screaming. He dropped the knife and banged my head on the pavement and started stamping on my head.”
“I don’t remember anything else. I thought my life was over.”
Tania said that the abuse began two months later when he grabbed her by the throat and punched her for being late back after a night out.
“After each attack, he would make me think it was my fault, that I deserved it,” she said.
“He was very manipulative.”
Recalling the attack, Maysa said: “I remember asking my dad to stop but it carried on. I was in shock and thought I might need proof. Everything really changed that night.”
But Maysa visits her dad in jail as the girl says ‘he is still her dad’ but she has not forgiven him.
Tania added: ”She visits him every fortnight. She hasn’t forgiven him – she’s very angry at him. But she says he is still her dad and she wants to see him.”
”Apparently, he has found God – but he is still saying that I deserved it.”
”Eight years isn’t long enough. He’ll only serve half of that and I know the moment he comes out he will come after me and finish the job off,” she said.
”I’m never going to be safe.”