A SURVIVOR of a twisted domestic abuser has lashed out after he was let off with community service.

The woman, who we are not naming, spent two years being beaten, bullied and abused by Gordon Anderson and has been left distraught after a Sheriff failed to jail him.

Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard Anderson, 34, systematically abused the woman at an address in Irvine between January 2016 and February 2017.

The court was also told depraved Anderson force fed a child until he was sick, smashed a woman over the head with a mobile phone and behaved in a threatening and abusive manner on various dates between 2016 and 2017.

Despite the sickening abuse Anderson was slapped with a 200 hours community service, a non-harassment order supervision for two years and must enrol on the Caledonian Programme.

But today one of his victims hit out at the courts for the “pathetic” sentence.

She told the Herald: “ I feel like a prisoner in my own home because of him. I have a panic button in my house in case he turns up.

“He has been told he is not allowed to come near me, but that has never stopped him in the past. It feels like a slap on the wrist. It’s pathetic.”

The woman says her torture began in 2016 when she met Anderson. She said: “Life was hell. He was nice at first, but looking back I can see he was just grooming me. He turned nasty pretty quickly. We didn’t live together but he would come and stay sometimes and was very controlling. He would call me names like lazy and smelly.

“Gradually his behaviour got worse. But it wasn’t just towards me. One time he made a child a bowl of soup when he didn’t want it so he forced fed it to him to the point where he was sick.

“He wasn’t my child but I tried to plead with him to stop. It was absolutely horrible. It was a living nightmare.”

The woman says eventually Anderson’s behaviour got unbearable and she found the strength to throw him out.

She said: “My baby woke up crying at about 4am one night when he was at my house and he got up and leaned into her cot and screamed in her face for her to shut up.

“She was terrified and just screamed and screamed.

“That was when I just lost it. I knew I had to get him out so I threw him out there and then and he has never been back in.

“She has had nightmares ever since. She still wakes up at that time most nights screaming and I think it’s because she is re-living that night,

“If he tried to hit anyone else in the house I would stand in his way to shield them so I would get the worst of it.

“Then they would feel bad and say sorry to me for getting hit.

“He once broke a baby walker over my back. He punched me over the chest of drawers in my room and my child was trying to get in and couldn’t because he had jammed the door closed.

“The best outcome would have been for him to have got some jail time and I could have had time to get my life back together, but instead it is me who is serving the sentence.”