A man cleared by a jury of raping a woman in Wigan says the allegations have destroyed his life. Thomas Kennedy today described how he “lost everything” after spending six months remanded in custody following arrest at the home of his partner in Worsley Hall. Police tracked down the 36-year-old as part of an investigation […]
I met Alex Skeel last year at the Mankind Conference in Manchester. A quiet, unassuming man, his story is one of extreme abuse and violence. His abuser is now in prison – the first woman in the UK to be imprisoned for coercive and controlling behaviour. Every story is unique but this type of abuse […]
After sixty years of controlling behaviour and physical violence, Jim changed his blood-stained shirt and walked back to his wife who was making them a coffee after smashing him in the face. He had asked her to let the cat in while he cut the grass outside. But instead of turning left to the kitchen, […]
After Matt got horribly drunk on a night out with his girlfriend he wanted nothing more than to collapse into bed and sleep it off. But his girlfriend had different ideas. “She started trying to have sex with me and I told her I did not want to as I was drunk and very tired […]
When you feel there is nowhere to turn, nobody who will help, nothing that can be done – you feel like you’re a burden and it feels like there are only 2 options. Things stay as they are or you die. STOP! THERE IS ANOTHER OPTION – you just can’t see it, you don’t believe […]
A woman who posted a Snapchat video of her boyfriend as he lay dying in a pool of blood has been found guilty of orchestrating his killing. Fatima Khan plotted with a love rival to kill Afghan asylum seeker Khalid Safi, 18, who she had been dating for two years. Safi was repeatedly stabbed in the chest by Raza Khan […]
It would be difficult to have missed what has been happening lately around the Roxanne Pallett and Ryan Thomas incidents on Celebrity Big Brother. We all watched as a simple innocent act turned into an attempt to ruin someone’s life and resulted in the ruin of another. An overview of events If you aren’t aware […]
The devastated pals of an Everton fan killed by his new girlfriend told how they missed the hidden signs that he was in an abusive relationship. Paul Lavelle, 50, died in May last year after being attacked by Sarah Lewis, 46, with a broken dinner plate. His grieving best mate Paul Gladwell, 49, from Birkenhead, […]
No means no for men too: New research shows men are increasingly likely to be coerced into sex – but the law still doesn’t call it rape It’s a crime that few of its victims are willing to talk about – the men who are coerced by women into having sex. But a ground-breaking study […]
A solicitor who was abused and murdered by his violent wife was let down by authorities, a report has found. Doctors failed to raise concerns about injuries to David Edwards, according to the domestic homicide review. Mr Edwards, 51, was stabbed through the heart by his wife Sharon at their home Chorley, Lancashire, just weeks after their […]