A MOTHER who had her throat slashed during seven hours of torture in front of her children faces JAIL if she doesn’t write to her attacker in prison.
She said: "We are the victims, not him. I thought he was going to kill me that night for no reason and my boys saw that. They were terrified.
"I'm so angry that the law still defends his parental rights and that he is still being allowed to control us from behind bars.
"I couldn't believe it. I could end up being split up from my children and sent to prison when he was the one who attacked me. I'm the one being treated like a criminal."
The couple met in 2008 when they were both home carers and got engaged in 2010.
But, while pregnant with twins, she broke off the engagement in February 2011 due to Hughes’s drink problem.
On February 3 2011, Ms Allman awoke in bed to find Hughes sitting astride her before he launched the seven hour attack on her.
He tried to smother her with a pillow then repeatedly bludgeoned her with a dumb bell.
He then used a blade from a mini-tool to slash a 20cm-long cut across her throat, narrowly missing her major artery by a few millimetres.
When Ms Allman was eventually allowed to call an ambulance officers found her in bed with her two sons, then aged two, covered in blood.
In total she suffered eight wounds to her head, five fractures to her facial bones and needed cosmetic surgery to rebuild her throat.
After Hughes was jailed, Ms Allman began to rebuild her life, and the following year gave birth to a son, Aaron, with her new partner Wayne Young, 43.
However, in January 2014 she was told that Hughes was applying for a Residence and Contact Order under the Children Act of 1989, and was asking for six letters a year, as well as phone calls from the twins on their birthdays and at Christmas.
Ms Allman spent £3,000 on legal fees to fight the demand, but a court ruled that she would have to send three letters a year, updating Hughes on the children's school progress, health, and emotional development.
She was also ordered to send an up-to-date photograph of the boys, while Hughes was given permission to send them cards at birthdays and Christmas, and a letter at the start of each school year.
Ms Allman has been told she must also keep the letters that Hughes sends in case her sons want to read them when they are older.
She said the letters from Hughes detailed how he had been allowed to play with an X Box games console, and told of his prison job as a bee-keeper. In the court order, Ms Allman was told that if she does not comply she could be held in contempt of court, and may be imprisoned or fined.
