Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeTrapped at home in the pressure cooker created by lockdown, Vicki had no escape from her partner’s controlling behaviour and violence. "He’d have me cleaning all day, making me scrub the floors with a toothbrush, he would wake me up in the night with music blaring. (Image: Daily Mirror)Rachel, of South Wales, says: “It’s so much easier for them to get to that eighth stage in lockdown. There were 16 domestic abuse homicides in the first month of social distancing alone, treble the 2019 figures. Mercifully, Vicki did, and from the safety of a refuge, tells how those Zoom sessions in her car finally persuaded her to go.

Source: Daily Mirror March 24, 2021 07:21 UTC