THE parents of a teenager left with life-wrecking injuries after trying to flee from her controlling boyfriend blasted his jail term — which will see him walk free in two years.
Angel Lynn, 19, fell from a van at 60mph after being kidnapped by Chay Bowskill.
She suffered brain damage and is now “locked in for life” from the outside world — unable to walk, talk or feed herself.
Her heartbroken mum Nikki, 47, said: “This has wrecked Angel’s life. She will never have a job or be a mum. She’ll never hang out with her brothers, sisters or friends again.
“And it’s wrecked our lives too. She needs round-the-clock, 24-hour care. That is our lives now. He’ll be out in less than three years. It makes me furious. What kind of message is that sending to monsters like him?
“He can be back out trying to wreck other women’s lives while my daughter is trapped forever.”
Angel’s dad Patrick, 53, insisted: “I’ll never forgive him for hat he has done. He has stolen everything from Angel and paid such a small price with that sentence.”
Bowskill, 20, was filmed grabbing Angel “like a rag doll”, carrying her across a busy street and throwing her into the back of a Transit, which sped off. Moments later the petite college student fell from the vehicle. Bowskill was convicted of kidnap and coercive behaviour but cleared of pushing Angel out of the van.
‘This sentence is madness’
He was sentenced to a total of seven and a half years in prison on Monday and will serve half his sentence behind bars — three years and nine months.
Taking into account time already served on remand he will become eligible for release in June 2024. Angel’s family said they are outraged that Bowskill got just two years for the kidnap — even though the offence carries a maximum sentence of life.
They said they planned to call for a review of the kidnap sentence, saying it was “unduly lenient”. And they added they were surprised by the sentence when the judge seemed to recognise the serious consequences of the abduction.
Nikki said: “We want to take this to the Attorney General. This sentence is madness. The judge himself recognised that the kidnap came after months of bullying, hitting and offensive messages. He even recognised that the fact Angel was in the van was the reason she ended up suffering such horrendous injuries.
“The kidnap is what has ruined Angel’s life here. The judge could have jailed Bowskill for life, but he only gave him two years.” There are currently no sentencing guidelines for kidnapping, which the family reckon worked in Bowskill’s favour.
Angel’s dedicated parents, both cleaners, from Loughborough Leics, say they now face a lifetime of bills running into tens of thousands of pounds to care for her at home.
For weeks the doctors would not believe Angel would survive. I’ll never forget the face of the medic who told me she was going to die.
Mum Nikki
Mum-of-six Nikki said: “For weeks the doctors would not believe Angel would survive. I’ll never forget the face of the medic who told me she was going to die. I felt like my heart had been ripped from my chest. The world was spinning. I couldn’t eat for a week — I lived off water. Even now we don’t know how long Angel has and what quality of life we can give her.”
Patrick said: “Angel loved life, she was so full of life and had so much to look forward to. She dreamed of being a forensic scientist for police. But she’s had all her hopes and dreams — and our hopes and dreams for her snatched away.
“I’ll never walk her down the aisle. We’ll never see her graduate or get her dream job — or help her move house. We’ll never have little Angel grandchildren from her. And we’ll never enjoy her cheeky sense of fun.”
Angel was found lying in the carriageway of the A6 near her home in Loughborough on September 27, 2020. It is believed that she had initially tried to flee the van — before being kidnapped.
Bowskill and a pal were cleared over the injuries from the van fall after both claimed Angel jumped because he had ended their relationship. But Angel’s family said the footage was proof that Angel wanted to ditch Bowskill and was trying to get away from him.
They say she was fed-up at his controlling messages calling her “a slag” and even slapping her with a curfew when he was behind bars. In his sentencing remarks, Judge Timothy Spencer QC at Leicester Crown Court, told Bowskill: “You treated her in a vile way. She was belittled by you to a point where she must have felt worthless on a regular basis.”
‘A dangerous message’
But Judge Spencer said he had also taken into account his youth and immaturity when sentencing. He said he agreed with Bowskill’s own barrister’s description of him as a “little boy in man’s shoes”.
Judge Spencer told him: “You are an immature 20-year-old.” Bowskill, of Syston, Leics, was cleared of causing GBH with in- tent, but convicted of kidnapping Angel and jailed for two years.
He was further convicted of controlling and coercive behaviour and sentenced to three years and three months in jail, to run consecutively. A jury also found him of perverting the course of justice, for which he was sentenced to two years and three months’ in jail, also to run consecutively.
Pal Rocco Sansome, of Loughborough was found guilty of kidnap and sentenced to 21 months in jail. He admitted possessing a controlled drug of Class B (cannabis) and was jailed for seven days, to run concurrently.
He also admitted driving while unfit through cannabis use and was slapped with 12-month driving ban. Farah Nazeer, chief executive of Women’s Aid said last night: “The fact that the perpetrator could be out so soon shows that we urgently need domestic abuse training for all judges.
“This sends out a dangerous message about how seriously we take violence against women in this country — judges need to send a clear message that domestic abuse will not be tolerated.”
Source: The Sun
