Kategori: Domestic abuse
I’ve been prevented from divorcing my abusive estranged husband for 20 years
I just want to be rid of him, to be free.
I’ve been prevented from divorcing my abusive estranged husband for 20 years
I just want to be rid of him, to be free.
Survivors of strangulation are being let down when they turn on their TVs
It is the ultimate control you can exert on another human being.
Man who strangled girlfriend on night she planned to leave him jailed for 35 years
The judge described him as a ‘highly manipulative, misogynistic, narcissistic and thoroughly evil individual’
My twisted father said he abused me because my mother didn’t satisfy him
I still have a little piece of my ear missing, because my mother would bite it sometimes.
Self-defence classes gave me the confidence to stand up to my abuser
I pushed him back with my hand and then with my leg so I could stand up and I insisted that he leave.
My daughter took her own life to escape her abuser
I suspect Chloe felt her only other options were kill or be killed.
My daughter took her own life to escape her abuser
I suspect Chloe felt her only other options were kill or be killed.
‘My children were taken into care, but that doesn’t make me a terrible mother’
‘When it happened, I became that really busy friend who couldn’t see anyone.’
Domestic abuse charity ‘wiped out’ after man fled with £20,000-worth of goods
The door to their office space was busted open, and was the only one hit despite being in the same building as 75 other businesses and charities.
I was nearly beaten to death by family for fleeing my marriage
I wanted to go home and to be looked after – but that was a huge mistake’