Sean Mellin: Man weighing 350 lbs jailed for crushing tiny girlfriend with 'bellyflop' in hotel room attack
BOLTON, GREAT MANCHESTER: A 40-year-old man, who weighed 350 pounds, has reportedly been jailed for three years after he crushed his five-foot-tall girlfriend with a giant 'bellyflop' during a brutal attack in their hotel room. Sean Mellin assaulted Charlotte Marsden, 32, and used his overweight body to pin her to the floor of a Travelodge room in Bolton, Greater Manchester in August 2022.
Mellin also strangled, punched, and kicked Marsden around the hotel room during a drunken and drug-fueled outburst described by the judge as a "night of bullying and brutalizing." Marsden said the former courier was a "monster with a large belly" who used his massive body to overpower her. Mellin, of Bolton, was sentenced to three years in prison at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court after admitting to assault causing real bodily injury and strangling, according to DailyMail.
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‘I couldn't breathe when he was on top’
During the trial, it was revealed that Marsden dressed in only a towel was able to escape the room after a drunk Mellin passed out in the hotel room. The encounter left Charlotte Marsden with bruises on her back, throat, legs, back of her ears, and face. "He's big and broad, and he's got a big belly. He knows he is stronger than me and knew that I was frightened of him," Marsden said in a police statement, adding "I couldn't breathe when he was on top of me. I had a vision of myself lying dead on the bed in only my pink hoodie. I thought I was going to end up like a cabbage. He was like a monster, like a demon. He was not all there behind his eyes."
The victim also revealed that Mellin at one point pushed his fingers into her nose, causing her to cease breathing altogether. "I could only plead with my eyes for him to stop. I thought I was going to die. He only calmed down when I started to sweet-talk him. When I was on the toilet being sick, he said: 'You're faking it, you f*****g false b***h.' He was somebody else that night. I had to stay at other people's houses because I thought he was going to kill me when he got out. I have not missed him since he's been gone," she said. The couple met during the first lockdown in 2020, and he initially seemed like a "decent man," according to Marsden. But the connection swiftly grew toxic, and when Covid restrictions increased, the victim recounted feeling "stuck with him."
‘Smashed her head against the walls’
"Things were initially going well, but an argument broke out between them and that is where things started to go wrong," said prosecutor Mark Pritchard. He also revealed that Mellin grabbed Marsden by her throat for so long that she ended up vomiting and when she ran to the toilet to be sick, he "accused her of faking it." "He then grabbed her by the hair and kicked her in the face. He also smashed her head against the walls around the room on a number of occasions. He then held her down on the floor with his body weight, suffocating her. She said she couldn't breathe, but he said you're not going anywhere. Then in a change of heart he said, 'let's settle down, please don't leave me,’" the prosecutor revealed.
Mellin initially pled not guilty, but on the day of his trial, he altered his plea. A restraining order was issued prohibiting him from contacting Marsden or her sister forever. The judge Recorder Imran Shafi KC told Mellin, "this relationship was punctuated with violence and this all came to a head on the 22nd of August last year. You showed neither remorse nor concern for your then partner, even accusing her of faking being sick after you strangled her," before he handed out the three-year sentence.
