Ryan Wellings, 32, is serving a six-and-a-half-year jail sentence after being convicted in 2025 of manslaughter following years of domestic abuse involving his former fiancée, Kiena Dawes, 23, who was a new mother at the time. According to one account of the trial, Wellings admitted that he was “coached” to “say sorry” during court proceedings. The report characterizes the relationship as marked by controlling behavior, and it states that Dawes experienced prolonged abuse and violence. The sources provided do not describe additional witnesses’ testimony or the full legal reasoning behind the manslaughter conviction. They also do not indicate whether the “coaching” admission came from another person, from legal advice, or from interactions outside court. Overall, the available information centers on the conviction and sentence, the underlying abuse allegations described in court, and the defendant’s admission that he was prepared to express an apology during the trial.