LAUREN Goodger’s ex has been charged with assaulting her the day after they buried their baby daughter.
Builder Charles Drury, 25, will go on trial next month accused of “controlling” mum-of-two Lauren over two years from 2020 to 2022.
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He has also been accused of coercive and controlling behaviour, including “taking her car keys and hiding them so she was not able to use her car” and “assaulting her over the course of their relationship”.
The charges also stated Drury “made her fold bags and watched her do so” while the couple were together.
On August 4, the day after the couple buried their daughter Lorena, Drury allegedly assaulted Lauren causing her “actual bodily harm”.
Lauren was taken to hospital with facial injuries and was later pictured with a black eye.
Drury pleaded not guilty to the two charges at Barkingside Magistrates Court last week and has been granted unconditional bail ahead of a trial next month.
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Baby Lorena tragically died in July 2022 after she was born with her umbilical cord tied around her neck.
The couple still meet to co-parent their daughter Larose, 23 months, with Lauren denying that the pair are still together.
Addressing the rumours, she said recently: “There have been many rumours that I am in a relationship with my ex-partner Charles Drury. I am not. I am single.”
She added: “We are co-parenting. This decision has been made for the sake of Larose and her future. I have been barely socialising or been on a date with anyone else.
“I am healing and feel like I’m getting to a place where I can start to live a normal life again. I am looking forward to socialising and working again in the near future plus being the best mum I can to my beautiful daughter Larose who is my rock.”
Lauren suffered further heartache when her ex-boyfriend Jake McLean was killed in a horror car crash while nearly three times over the drink-drive limit last year.
The 33-year-old had taken cocaine when his Mercedes E-class careered off the road and landed upside down in Turkey last year.
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