In Focus 🔍 | Shocking figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal that while the number of domestic abuse-related incidents and crimes has doubled in the last five years, prosecutions have fallen.
Forced into a chair against the living room wall, Lee Holmes could feel the nylon cable ties cutting further into her wrists as she struggled to sit up.
Lee was saved by a chance text message from a friend, asking her to come home. When her partner saw it, he reluctantly untied her hands and agreed to let her leave. This message quite possibly saved her life. ‘I didn’t hear anything from the police for days. When I chased them, the officer I spoke to said they hadn’t even contacted my partner. It’s only when I followed-up again that they had served him with a notice to cease contact.’Although Lee’s former partner was convicted of various harassment and domestic abuse offences and served 18 months in prison – it only happened after her friend received a death threat from the man, not through any of her own numerous reports of his dangerous behaviour.
Meanwhile, figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal that while the number of domestic abuse-related incidents and crimes has doubled in the last five years, prosecutions have fallen. When *Abigail found the confidence to come forward and report her then-partner for stalking and harassment, she knew her life was at risk.
‘He’d always put me down and never call me by my name,’ Abigail recalls. ‘He pulled my hair and would break drinking glasses on my hands. And if I ever said I missed family, he’d smash the house up.’ ‘However, the police said that they couldn’t act unless there had been any violence, so I decided to speak out. It was only when I told them everything that had happened that they arrested him for rape.’
‘I feel as though the perpetrator gets protected and treated more like the victim than the actual victim does,’ adds Abigail, who has made 38 separate reports to the police. ‘They don’t take abuse seriously.’ MP Jess Philips has been clear that survivors need to be sure they can receive high quality initial support
When Roxy Freebury’s then-partner put his arm on her throat after months of coercive abuse, she knew she had to leave for good. Once the charge was confirmed, Roxy left her flat and moved into a new home. She was informed by the officers investigating her case that someone would be in touch with further updates.
‘Even though I wasn’t the criminal, it felt like I was serving a mental sentence because I couldn’t move on.’
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