For more than 20-years, William Adam of Darlington physically and sexually assaulted the woman and has now been sentenced at Teesside Crown Court A VIOLENT Darlington man has been jailed for ten-years after subjecting a woman to two decades of horrifying abuse. For more than 20-years, William Adam physically and sexually assaulted the woman, breaking bones and threatening to kill her. During one attack he stamped on the woman’s chest, causing her ribs to break, while in another, he dragged her off a set of ladders and banged her head against a table, causing the skin above her eye to burst open.