Their love ended up in the courts, after they first went through the police station to sue each other and then through the Volos Hospital.

A 42-year-old woman complained that her partner was holding her “hostage”, beating her and threatening her, while she came to Volos from Athens to spend a romantic weekend.

She broke it out of the short-term rental they had rented when he called into a coffee shop in town to order. Once she opened the door to the delivery man, she took the keys, locked her partner inside and went to the police.

Her 48-year-old boyfriend denied that he hit her and that he threatened to open her head with a candlestick, while she complained that she hit him.

Scenes of jealousy were the reason the fight broke out on Saturday afternoon, with both sides admitting to the Three-member Misdemeanor Court of Volos that one was monitoring the other’s cell phone, computer and tablet.

“We haven’t been doing well in the last two months, but on Saturday things got out of hand. He beat me, threatened me and my children, threatened my life, said he was going to kill me, threatened me with a candlestick, hit me with the mop and also hit me on the head with the cellphone. He threatened to kill my children and said that if I screamed for help it would be my last scream,” the victim told the court.

“She confessed to me what I was afraid of and I confirmed everything when I searched her mobile phone, that she had other relationships. He was coming to Athens and looking for my computer. She cursed at me, hit me on the arm and I went to the hospital. She started everything because I asked her ahead of time to break up and she was threatening to kill herself. I wanted to leave Volos when the fight started and he took my cell phone,” said the defendant and plaintiff.

When asked why there were sex videos stored on his tablet, he replied that they were there because she had given her consent, which the plaintiff and defendant admitted, while the 48-year-old, when he was shown the photos of his partner’s bruises and hacks, he said that these were not blows, but were caused by love passion.

Their fight started at noon on Saturday and in the early hours of Sunday after beatings and threats of death and trenches, they ended up in the department. She called a shop she knew for delivery and when the door opened she shouted to the delivery man to call the police and locked her partner inside, only for the police to open for him after an hour.

Yesterday, the court sentenced both defendants to six months in prison with a three-year suspension and a 500 euro fine.