Ms Dodsworth was stalked by her husband Jonathan Wignall, who jailed last week for three years. Speaking on ITV s
This Morning about years spent being coercively controlled by Wignall, she said that the details of her case were never meant to be public. Suddenly they were out there when Jonathan was sentenced, she said. The decision to go public was almost taken away from me. The pair had been married for 18 years and Ms Dodsworth - a regular ITV weather presenter on regional news in Wales and London – said that within a marriage, at first, you try to make it work .
Ruth Dodsworth speaks about abusive relationship on This Morning
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Jonathan Wignall and his victim, and ex-wife, Ruth Dodsworth A TV weather presenter was stalked by her controlling husband who placed a tracking device on her car to check if she was having an affair. Jealous Jonathan Wignall, 54, was jailed on Wednesday for three years for plaguing ITV host Ruth Dodsworth including badgering her at her TV studio. Ruth, 46, is a regular ITV weather presenter on regional news in Wales and London – and has appeared on This Morning. But her obsessive husband set an alarm to check her nightly forecasts, rang her dozens of times a day demanding to know where she was and who she was with.
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Jonathan Wignall pictured outside Escape nightclub in Swansea in 2001 (Image: SWWP)
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