Doorbell footage has captured the moment a mother begged her jealous ex-boyfriend to leave her house after he attacked her with a brick. 

Shannon Johnson, 25, was left with horrific injuries after her ex boyfriend, Thomas Bardsley, 34, followed her home and launched a brutal assault. 

The mother-of-one had just returned from the pub with a group of friends and was having a cigarette when Bardsley showed up and threatened to kill her. Moments later, he grabbed Ms Johnson’s neck and pressed his thumbs into her windpipe.

Bardsley then picked up a brick from the floor and began bashing Ms Johnson on the head ‘over and over’. Luckily within minutes, her new partner came out the house, and chased him off, saving her life. 

Ring doorbell footage shows the moment that Bardsley later returned to the house, covered in Ms Johnson’s blood begging to be let in to see her new boyfriend.

Bardsley was jailed for ten years in January this year after being found guilty of wounding with intent and threats to kill.

Shannon Johnson was left with a huge cut on her head following the assault by Bardsley

Shannon (pictured with her ex Bardsley) had just returned from the pub with a group of friends and was having a cigarette when Bardsley showed up and threatened to kill her

Doorbell footage has captured the moment Shannon Johnson, 25, begged her jealous ex-boyfriend Thomas Bardsley, 34, to leave her house after he attacked her with a brick

The admin worker, from Sussex, said: ‘Thomas is a monster. When he attacked me that night, I thought he’d kill me.

‘My own daughter, who was eight months old at the time, didn’t recognise me for weeks due to my injuries. It was horrific.

‘Please, remember Thomas’s name and face and steer clear. He’ll make your life a misery.’

Ms Johnson was 21 when she started dating Bardsley, who is ten years older. 

They went on their first date in July 2019 and just two weeks later, Bardsley confessed to loving Ms Johnson.

She said: ‘At first, he acted like the perfect boyfriend. Showering me with compliments, treating me to meals out. But two months later, he changed.’

According to Ms Johnson, when Bardsley drank, he picked fights and was aggressive.

She added: ‘He’d kick me in back of my legs when we were in bed together. But when I confronted him, he’d blame the booze.’

Months earlier, she had planned a charity trip to Cambodia with work. But when it was time to go, Bardsley was unhappy.

A few days after Ms Johnson landed, he bombarded her with texts, accusing her of cheating, demanding she come home.

Bardsley grabbed her neck and pressed his thumbs into her windpipe before striking her head with a brick. Pictured: Ms Johnson’s injuries following hospital treatment 

Luckily within minutes of the attack, Ms Johnson’s new partner came out the house, and chased Bardsley off, saving her life

She said her own daughter didn’t recognise her for weeks following the brutal attack

Ms Johnson said: ‘I tried to calm him down but nothing worked. After a few days, he started messaging my work colleagues, insisting I go home. It was embarrassing.’

Eventually she returned home early, and Bardsley acted like the perfect boyfriend again, but it didn’t last long.

In January 2020, Ms Johnson discovered she was pregnant but Bardsley said he didn’t want it and asked her to terminate the baby.

Sadly, at 11 weeks gone, Ms Johnson suffered a miscarriage and contracted sepsis.

She said: ‘I was devastated to lose the baby and was incredibly poorly. Thomas wasn’t sympathetic, so I’d had enough and ended things with him.’

But a few months later, in July, she bumped into Bardsley at a friend’s BBQ and they got back together. She fell pregnant with his baby in August.

Ms Johnson said: ‘Again, Thomas refused to go to any scans and wasn’t excited about the baby.’

‘He called me horrible names and my friend who was visiting at the time, asked him to leave. I didn’t want him near me or the baby after that, so I got a non molestation order against him.’

In April 2021, her daughter, now two, was born and after a few months, she met someone new.

She added: ‘When Thomas found out, he abused me in street. It scared me.’

Pictured: A brick outside Ms Johnson’s house that was left covered in her blood 

Ms Johnson pictured with her and Bardsley’s daughter following the attack in December 2021

In December 2021, when her daughter was eight months old, Ms Johnson went to a pub on a night out with friends and saw Bardsley there too.

As she headed home, she spotted him crouched on the ground on her road and when she walked past, he told her ‘It’s you, the devil’.

Terrified, she hurried home but Bardsley later appeared outside her door without any shoes on, while she was having a cigarette.

She threatened to call the police but Bardsley replied ‘I’ll kill you’.

Moments later, he grabbed Ms Johnson’s neck and pressed his thumbs into her windpipe.

She said: ‘He released one hand and I heard him fumbling around on the ground. Terrified, I started to scream. But then I felt a heavy object slam into my head over and over.’

Within minutes, her new partner came out the house, and chased him off while Ms Johnson fled inside and called 999.

But Bardsley later returned to the address, lurking outside, covered in her blood. He was caputured on her ring cam doorbell, begging to be let in to see Ms Johnson’s boyfriend.

Ms Johnson was 21 when she started dating Bardsley, (pictured together) who is ten years older

They went on their first date in July 2019 and just two weeks later, Bardsley confessed to being in love

When an ambulance arrived Bardsley fled and Ms Johnson was taken to Worthing Hospital where she was given multiple stitches after a CT scan showed a severe laceration to her head which exposed her skull.

She added: ‘Back at home, my eyes and face were so swollen, my daughter didn’t recognise me and kept asking for her mum. It was heartbreaking.’

Police meanwhile arrested Bardsley and in June last year he appeared at Lewes Crown Court. He was found guilty of wounding with intent and threats to kill.

He was sentenced in January to ten years and handed a lifelong restraining order.

Ms Johnson continued: ‘If it hadn’t had been for my partner, I might have died that night. Thomas is evil and nearly left his own daughter without her mum.

‘Now I want other women and men to recognise the signs of an abusive relationship and get out before it’s too late.’