tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63707044148075187122024-03-05T06:35:51.960+00:00Jean HatchetRadical feminist. Cycling to honour the lives of women murdered by intimate partners or family members. Jean Hatchethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17366431067037109280noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370704414807518712.post-23184596547827587142022-04-30T19:58:00.005+01:002022-04-30T20:05:04.013+01:00When the Equality Act blames women for men watching porn at work. <h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A woman was really angry this morning. Furious. I offered her my blog to unleash. She has done so brilliantly. Take it away @JanSwatridge (Twitter) </span></h1><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy-8hkkCdjTcDzoKmBcBOfNWEngGxhdzxfirD26TqF-mSvgFWmqcTvgOTt17rIJG_JPYHZjsNgtmSEYvft4UruY2o7dl0nXX3c42E7ifkg7Gh62AmtrJvmNjXaKig8IDFVRZJChO64W0jxObSOpie9BP2bKcDWvfA_qK9bL8xFxkwpkXUzGJqecltJWw/s184/Screenshot%202022-04-30%20at%2020.03.11.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="174" data-original-width="184" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy-8hkkCdjTcDzoKmBcBOfNWEngGxhdzxfirD26TqF-mSvgFWmqcTvgOTt17rIJG_JPYHZjsNgtmSEYvft4UruY2o7dl0nXX3c42E7ifkg7Gh62AmtrJvmNjXaKig8IDFVRZJChO64W0jxObSOpie9BP2bKcDWvfA_qK9bL8xFxkwpkXUzGJqecltJWw/s1600/Screenshot%202022-04-30%20at%2020.03.11.png" width="184" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I lead a very quiet life. Living on a barge in rural Northern Ireland and travelling the waterways along the River Shannon from April to October. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">You would think not much riles me and for the most part you would be rightI But today, today was different.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It contained this gem from the Equality Act of 2010 Section 26 (99) Examples of what might be deemed harrassment for the purpose of the Act. The capitals are mine.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">‘An employer who displays any material of a sexual nature, such as a topless calendar, may be harassing HER employees where this makes the workplace an offensive place to work for any employee, female or male’.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I can’t help but wonder if, when this was drafted, it was someone’s idea of a joke?</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I understand it is wrong to make assumptions and but I absolutely do not believe that women are so predominantly guilty of displaying offensive calendars in the workplace that they are used in this example imbedded in UK law.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Men can also be victims of sexual harassment (perpetrated by both women and men), and women can be perpetrators (against both men and women).We acknowledge a risk that portraying it as an issue that only affects women could discourage male victims from reporting complaints. However, women are significantly more likely to experience sexual harassment than men. <b>Perpetrators are disproportionately men.</b>Sexual harassment can be considered both a cause and consequence of sex inequality, and some of the evidence we received drew links between sexual harassment and other manifestations of gender inequality in the workplace such as the gender pay gap and the underrepresentation of women in leadership roles.</span></p><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">So, please, let’s not put the blame for this culture on women and perpetuate the myth that we are guilty of sexual harassment at an equivalent level of being recipients of sexual harassment. And certainly not for the Government Department entrusted to ensure equality to ignore reality in favour of ticking a perceived fairness box.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">30 April 2022</span></p></div>Jean Hatchethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17366431067037109280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370704414807518712.post-8140926272331839042020-12-08T11:40:00.001+00:002020-12-08T11:42:59.174+00:00Sam Coleman. "I haven't done much". <p><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Sam is aware that women want to write about her but she doesn't want anyone to make a fuss of her or over her. She tells us she "hasn't done much. Just bits on the edges. I'm not a Magdalen! I don't want my bloody face everywhere."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">You may know Sam as the cheeky, funny, fierce and determined @SamCSheff on Twitter. The woman has a twinkle in her eyes that comes from being naturally quite naughty and not putting up with things she isn't keen on. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Well, I'm going to make a teeny fuss because she does bloody deserve it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Sam is a Sheffield lass and extremely proud of it. She is a proper Woman Of Steel. Sam worked for many years in finance in various manufacturing firms in Sheffield. She has a degree in Financial Accounting from Sheffield Hallam University. It is not easy to work in Manufacturing as a woman in Sheffield. Old traditions of the industry as male-dominated still persist. She is quietly, smilingly, tough our Sam. Years ago at a fancy party in London with lots of Media types talking about their jobs Sam was asked "What do you do?" She replied simply, "Valves". She isn't one to self-promote or use her elbows to dig her way to the front. She's happy to stand at the back and clap. (Or hold your coat while people say hello to you. She did this in Leeds for me and won't let me forget it!") She's not keen on pretence and she isn't easily fooled by pretenders. Which is where her rebellious entrance into the women's movement's response to aggressive trans activism began. She doesn't believe men can become actual women and she was damn well going to say so. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Despite being diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer, with a brutally short prognosis, Sam has kept a massive, defiant smile on her face and refuses to bow down to the cruel disease without kicking back and kicking hard. Many of you have seen Sam laughing away with a drink in her hand but some of you also knowing she was in extreme pain and taking drugs just to stay on her feet. But when she is on her feet she is formidable. She has fiercely battled to retain women's sex-based rights. She considers herself a "foot soldier" to others. I call bollocks on this. Without women like Sam the women with bigger platforms wouldn't be able to stand on them. They need support and amplification. They need women on the ground dishing out leaflets, attending meetings, doing their bit. Sam has done this and then some and she's done it in style and in pain. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A member of 'The Resisters' network, a campaigner for 'FairPlay For Women', a member of 'Women Of Steel' and an attender of a number of 'Woman's Place UK' meetings she has been massively active in the campaigns around the reform of the Gender Recognition Act. She has donated, distributed leaflets on the street, helped organise meetings and more. It is not " not much". It is a lot. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">When I decided to go and try on bras in the men's changing rooms of Marks And Spencer to check out their mixed sex changing room policy, it was Sam I called and said "You doing anything today?" Her response, "Can we get arrested? Please tell me it's something I can get arrested for." We didn't get arrested but we did have a laugh. She is up for anything if it will help raise the issue of women's right to single sex space.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">She has a fierce sense of humour and loves a bit of women's movement chatter about who is doing what and who has fallen out with whom and why. So if you have any chatter, get on the DM and tell her. Or just tell her you love her if you do. Many of you do. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Sam loves being with women in single sex space. She loves the feeling of sisterhood it brings. She knows the recovery it helps facilitate. She is determined that other women shall always have that experience if they want and need it. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Sam Coleman is a 54 year old Yorkshire lass who has dug her heels in, straightened her spine, looked both death and trans activists in the face and said "Is that all you've got?" This spirit is not "not much". It's a lot. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Sam has a husband Bryan who adores her, a daughter Freyja who she adores, and a granddaughter Aspen who she has been besotted with since the day she was born. Sam looks after Aspen when she can and has missed her desperately during lockdown when she has had to shield. These are the heartbreaking aspects of Covid. But still Sam smiles on. She is a mother, a wife, a grandmother, friend and a warrior for women. She is our sister. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">So when Sam says she doesn't want a fuss made. Quietly, in your hearts, make a little bit of fuss for Sam. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Keep kicking lass. Fuck cancer. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Jean Hatchet x</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwp7IhMds83r9vfsXWyQIyaswD6QYdyLveesN4xuvDfjYom-68FiDaJU3LuXb95dnhRit1FOkHj3NXrRGTPldsBVvjY3-PpoBLehVL3RaLMM9OyXhvC1LhyphenhyphenXEsAYiwzRhtGDD72Va6NK13/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="486" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwp7IhMds83r9vfsXWyQIyaswD6QYdyLveesN4xuvDfjYom-68FiDaJU3LuXb95dnhRit1FOkHj3NXrRGTPldsBVvjY3-PpoBLehVL3RaLMM9OyXhvC1LhyphenhyphenXEsAYiwzRhtGDD72Va6NK13/w485-h640/image.png" width="485" /></a></div><br /><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Jean Hatchethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17366431067037109280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370704414807518712.post-66323519427455040442020-09-10T18:25:00.007+01:002020-09-10T18:52:53.958+01:00Domestic Homicide Review - "Doris" #HerNameWasNotDoris<i>The man who unlawfully killed "Doris" received no punishment. He was acquitted of murder and walked free from court. </i><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>The report clearly shows that "Doris" was subjected to Coercive Control and other forms of abuse over a period of many years. On the day of her death the perpetrator cut her throat, severing her jugular and carotid artery and through into her windpipe. The report shows that there were suspicions he groomed the children to speak against her and that he groomed professionals including teachers. "Doris" was a victim of his stalking, including monitoring her phone and encouraging her children to do the same. Doris had expressed to her GP and others that she was suffering domestic abuse. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>The perpetrator walked free from court and is now free to say what he likes about her because "Doris" can no longer speak ever again. This report gives "Doris" and her family a voice. <br /></i><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>It is important that women see what happened and judge the way that 'Doris' was treated both by her estranged husband, the various agencies who could have prevented her death but chose to hold her responsible for her behaviour while being abused, and by the criminal justice system beyond her death. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>The man who unlawfully killed "Doris" is free to live his life. Her family are not. They live forever grieving the loss of the woman they loved. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>At the bottom of the blog is the full text of the Domestic Homicide Review's findings. It has been requested that I host this here so that it is not hidden away. It is long at 66 pages. It is difficult reading. I have selected the relevant and horrific points first. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Rest sweet "Doris". You were and are deeply loved. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><span style="color: red;">Doris’s family had hoped to use her original name in the report but respected the Home Office decision. The family chose the pseudonym ‘Doris’ as used in the report. This report reflects the Home Office amendments. </span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div>Doris was stabbed to death in her home in June 2016 by Peter who pleaded self-defence and was later acquitted of her murder in May 2017. Prior to her death, she was issued with an Adult Caution for smacking Lee and common assault on Peter. (Blogger notes that this "assault" is referred to as "retaliatory violence" in the report. The perpetrator was keen to report this to police. )</div><div><br /></div><div>2.0 DETAILS OF THE INCIDENTS Incident One (Domestic Homicide) </div><div><br /></div><div>2.1 On 2 June 2016, a 999 call was made by Peter from the family home. He described a knife attack upon himself and his daughter Lee and identified the assailant as Doris. Peter explained that Doris was in the dining room and that he was safe in the bedroom with their two children Lee and Sam. Peter stated that Lee had a cut on her arm and that he had a cut on his hand and his head was bleeding. He did not mention that Doris had significant injuries.</div><div><br /></div><div> 2.2 When the Police arrived at the house, they found Doris lying face down in a large pool of blood on the dining room floor. A Police officer turned Doris over and there was a large cut across her throat. </div><div><br /></div><div>2.3 Peter, Lee and Sam were located upstairs in a bedroom. Peter was holding a sock to Lee’s injury and was crying. Both children kept asking “Why would mummy hurt us?” Peter stated that he had been hit on the head twice with a knife.</div><div><br /></div><div> 2.4 An ambulance and Police units arrived at the house and Doris was confirmed to be deceased at the scene. Peter, Lee and Sam were taken to hospital accompanied by the Police. </div><div><br /></div><div>2.5 Later that evening on 2 June 2016, Peter was arrested on suspicion of Doris’s murder. </div><div><br /></div><div>2.6 Lee and Sam were taken into Police protection at the hospital until a foster placement could be arranged. The Local Authority issued an application for a Care Order (Children Act 1989) and they were subsequently made the subjects of an interim Care Order. </div><div><br /></div><div>2.7 On 3 and 4 June 2016 Peter was interviewed under caution. Peter stated that on 2 June 2016 he had been out at work and had returned home at 17.30. Lee and Sam had been out with their maternal grandmother and arrived shortly after him and Doris was already at the house waiting in her car outside. Doris’s family stated that she did not enter the house as she was frightened of being alone with Peter. Doris and Peter were living separately at the time but shared the care of the children. Later in the evening, Peter and Doris had an argument in the kitchen over Doris’s poor relationship with Lee. Peter states that Lee came between them, at which point Doris picked up a knife and swung it at Lee, cutting her arm. He states he pushed Lee out of the room and that Doris then swung the knife at him resulting in two cuts to his head. Peter took the knife from Doris but stated she kept coming towards him and they grappled. During this he inflicted the fatal knife wound to Doris’s neck. Peter went upstairs to be with Lee and Sam and contacted the Police. He claimed he had acted in self-defence. </div><div><br /></div><div>2.8 Post Mortem: On 4 June 2016, a post mortem examination was carried out. <span style="color: red;">The Consultant Forensic Pathologist found that Doris had sustained incised open wounds to both hands, a 13.5cm long deep incised injury to her throat that had severed her carotid artery and jugular vein and completely severed her windpipe and oesophagus, resulting in massive blood loss. Cause of death was given as ‘incised wound to the neck. The Pathologist opined that Doris would have collapsed and died a short time afterwards due to massive loss of blood circulation</span>. Toxicology East Surrey Community Safety Partnership 7 revealed traces of Mirtazapine (anti-depressants) and Ibuprofen in Doris’s body. No alcohol or illegal substances were detected. </div><div><br /></div><div>2.9 On 5 June 2016 <span style="color: red;">Peter was charged with Doris’s murder. </span>Incident Two (Serious incident against a child) </div><div><br /></div><div>2.10 On 8 April 2016 the Police received a distressed call from Lee who stated she had been assaulted by her mother, Doris. A Police unit was immediately deployed to the family home and Lee answered the door, clearly upset and crying. Lee stated that Doris had thrown her off her bed onto the floor and started punching her and kicking her. </div><div><br /></div><div>2.11 Doris was interviewed by the Police and admitted that she had hit Lee on the bottom for misbehaving as she would not get out of bed to go to her grandmother’s house. The Police contacted Peter who was at work; he disclosed that Doris had assaulted him on a number of occasions since January 2016. </div><div><br /></div><div>2.12 On 8 April 2016 Doris was arrested on suspicion of assault on Lee. She was Cautioned for smacking Lee’s bottom and for Common Assault on Peter.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: red;"><b>5.1 Inquest </b>An inquest was opened into Doris’s on 10 June 2016. Once Peter’s verdict of ‘Not Guilty of Murder’ was received the inquest was not resumed and a final death certificate was issued</span>.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>5.3 Criminal Trial</b> <span style="color: red;">Peter was put on trial for the murder of Doris in December 2016</span>. After four days the trial was stopped as Peter made further revelations about the attack. The second trial commenced in May 2017. Following a trial lasting five weeks and deliberation by the Jury over five days Peter was acquitted of Doris’s murder. The second trial commenced in May 2017. Following a trial lasting five weeks and deliberation by the Jury over five days Peter was acquitted of Doris’s murder. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>5.4 Family Court Fact Finding Hearing</b> </div><div><br /></div><div>5.4.1 An initial Fact-Finding Hearing took place in the summer of 2017 as part of the proceedings within the Family Court. <span style="color: red;">Following a two week hearing the Judge stated in the report that Peter had killed Doris and that he had not acted in self-defence. </span>Peter appealed the Judge’s findings as this was not the outcome of the criminal trial. The appeal was upheld leading to a further hearing with a different judge in April 2018 </div><div><br /></div><div>5.4.2 All witnesses were required to be re-interviewed as part of the process. The Judge made the following conclusions: </div><div><span> </span>• <span style="color: red;">On 2 June 2016, Peter had killed Doris by cutting her throat. East Surrey Community Safety Partnership 9 </span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><span> </span>• That following the breakdown in the relationship of Peter and Doris between December 2015 and June 2016, both parents failed to protect their children from their numerous verbal and physical disputes. </span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><span> </span>• That Lee and Sam had suffered long lasting trauma resulting from their exposure to the acrimonious and violent relationship between Peter and Doris and the death of Doris. </span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><span> </span>• That Peter inappropriately involved the children, especially Lee, in the adult matters of the parents’ relationship. By way of example: </span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><span> </span>▪ Asking Lee to decide whether he should go out with his new partner.</span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><span> </span> ▪ Asking Lee to unlock Doris’s phone so that he could check it for messages; </span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><span> </span>▪ Encouraging Lee to check her mother’s phone, leading to disclosure at school that her new boyfriend was under the name that mum and dad were going to call their baby, should they have another daughter; </span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><span> </span>▪ Telling Lee to throw her mother’s phone on the floor so that it smashed; </span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><span> </span>▪ Telling Lee not to say too much to people at school because he did not want to get social services involved; </span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><span> </span>▪ Engaging in a collusive relationship with Lee, including instructing her not to tell Doris that he had been talking to her school teacher and to keep it a secret; </span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><span> </span>▪ Causing Lee to side with him against her mother in the parental disputes. 5.5 Care Proceedings The Care Proceedings in respect of the children concluded in the autumn 2018. A Special Guardianship Order was made in respect of both children with their paternal uncle and aunt, along with a Supervision Order to Surrey County Council for 12 months. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Doris’s mother and sister attended a DHR / SCR Panel meeting on 13th December 2017, accompanied by their AAFDA4 Support worker. <span style="color: red;">This meeting had a profound effect on the Panel, highlighting the impact of the domestic homicide on the family. </span>They also attended a further Panel meeting in May 2019 having read the draft report and raised a number of questions in advance. The Children’s Services representative arranged a separate meeting to discuss concerns. <span style="color: red;">Peter, as the remaining parent involved, refused permission for Doris’s mother and sister to see the entire SCR report, stating that ‘the whole family really need to move on’</span>. Doris’s mother and sister were given the opportunity to discuss the sections they had contributed to and to highlight any factual amendments.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>KPE ONE: EARLY FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND HEALTH INCLUDING BIRTH OF THEIR CHILDREN</b> </div><div><br /></div><div>11.1 Peter was 43, and Doris was 39 at the time of her death. They met around 1993 and married in May 2003. They moved to the family home in 2006 where they were still living when Doris was killed on 2 June 2016. According to information provided, Peter had a very strict upbringing and his father was a bully and disciplinarian often using physical punishment. </div><div><br /></div><div>11.2 Doris and Peter lived in south London until 2010 but then moved to be closer to the maternal/paternal parent’s homes to facilitate easier childcare. Doris’s father died in 2014. Her sister and brother lived away from the area. </div><div><br /></div><div>11.3 Lee was born in 2007. Peter and Doris had been trying to have a child and they were overjoyed. Lee started school in September 2011. She had good attendance and was supported by her parents at parents’ evenings and other school events. (Source: School IMR) </div><div><br /></div><div>11.4 Following a family holiday to Australia when Lee was three, Peter became unsettled and spoke with Doris about the family moving there. Doris refused as she wanted to stay near her family. </div><div><br /></div><div>11.5 Peter then began to carry out extensive building work in their home. A comment was made that the family home resembled a building site for a number of years. </div><div><br /></div><div>11.6 Doris and Peter were desperately trying for a second child and Doris had a miscarriage before Sam was born in 2011. Several family and work colleagues spoke of how sad Doris was at the loss of this child but also spoke of her joy at the arrival of the Sam; Lee and Sam were much wanted by both parents. A family member said that Doris was thrilled at being a mother. Sam started at nursery when he was three years old. Doris dropped him off and nursery staff said she was very caring. (Source: Nursery IMR) </div><div><br /></div><div>11.7 During the period of the review, Doris, Peter, Lee and Sam were registered with one GP practice in Surrey. Family contact with the GP had been unremarkable until the last six months before Doris’s death. The children attended routine appointments and there were no safeguarding concerns. Peter had no recorded history of previous mental health problems, alcohol or substance misuse, and no recording in relation to domestic abuse. Doris had no history of mental health problems until the consultations of March-May 2016. From then onwards until her death, Doris was seen by a GP six times. (Source: GP IMR) </div><div><br /></div><div>11.8 Both parents worked; Peter was a carpenter and since 2003, Doris had worked in IT with a local housing provider. In 2013, Doris was signed off work for around 3 months due to stress, relating to a grievance she had taken out against her manager. Her grievance was upheld and she returned to work. Following a restructure in Doris’s department she achieved promotion. </div><div><br /></div><div>11.9 Doris and Peter were assisted with childcare by Doris’s mother and the paternal grandparents. Sam started nursery in January 2015 and Doris took on the nursery / school runs before work. Prior to early 2016 there were no concerns noted about the children at either Lee’s school, or Sam’s nursery. The school and nursery reported to the Family Court Fact Finding that the children’s progress had been very positive. Both parents disciplined the children with the occasional smack as did Doris’s mother. <span style="color: red;">The family have stated that Peter had a long ruler with which he used to chastise the children. </span></div><div><br /></div><div>11.10 Surrey Police reviewed their local and national databases for prior involvement with the family. Peter had a PNC6 record showing he had seven convictions for theft / fraud / kindred offences in 1994. Doris had a PNC record for the simple Adult Caution relating to the assaults against Lee and Peter in April 2016 as detailed earlier in this report. </div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>12 VOICES OF THE VICTIMS </b>(based on information provided by family, friends and reports) </div><div><br /></div><div>12.1 Doris 12.1 1 <span style="color: red;">Doris was viewed as lively and fun. She was a good mother and loved her children.</span> <span style="color: red;">She was very well respected by her employer and her colleagues and was good at her job. She was also always the first to organise social events and in the words of one of her colleagues “got things done”</span>. Doris enjoyed girly nights out as well as the fellowship with 6 Police National Computer East Surrey Community Safety Partnership 16 mothers at the children’s play group. She loved Star Wars and Disney. Doris could have great high moods but also low periods and she sometimes became very angry. </div><div><br /></div><div>12.1.2 <span style="color: red;">The last six months of Doris’s life were chaotic. With the breakdown of her relationship with Peter, she experienced great stress, mental health issues, coercion and control by Peter of the situation, domestic abuse, and loss of daily access to her children. This eventually led to the incident where she lost her life. In the words of her family, “Doris was never seen as a victim by the professionals involved during this time”. </span></div><div><br /></div><div>12.2 Lee. Lee is a very bright and articulate girl, funny and outgoing with an ‘old head’ on her. She loves singing, dancing and drama. She was a Daddy’s girl. As her relationship with her mother deteriorated, she began to refuse to call her ‘Mummy’ and referred to her as Doris. Her behaviour towards her mother became verbally and physically aggressive <span style="color: red;">including pushing Doris downstairs and spitting in her face, which would appear to have been encouraged, or certainly allowed to go unchallenged by Peter.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>12.4 Peter appears to have had a strict upbringing which involved physical punishment from his parents. He did not have many friends, only colleagues who he worked with and did not socialise like Doris. Peter loved the family, especially Lee, and was seen as charming by others. <span style="color: red;">However, family members felt he was very controlling and became manipulative. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><b>13.0 THE FACTS</b> The below information has been drawn from a range of sources; the IMRs submitted by agencies (referenced where appropriate), the findings of the Fact-Finding Report of the Family Court judge, and interviews from friends and colleagues.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="color: red;">KPE TWO: BULLYING AND COERCION OF DORIS BY PETER and GROOMING OF THE CHILDREN AND PROFESSIONALS </span></b></div><div><br /></div><div>13.1 <span style="color: red;">In late 2014 and into 2015, Doris disclosed to her family and work colleagues that she was experiencing controlling and undermining behaviour from Peter. Doris had been seen with a black eye by her family and she had indicated that she had been raped by Peter. A close friend and colleague disclosed that Doris stated that Peter would stand right in front of her face and poke her with his fingers, sometimes so hard he would knock her backwards. Family and work colleagues highlighted that they heard Peter making comments to Doris about her weight, ridiculing the way she looked, and how she had let herself go. He made sexually suggestive comments to Doris’s sister. Doris stated she was scared to leave Peter as he harmed himself whenever she mentioned it. He was particularly fixated with trying to find out who her new partner was and head butted the wall when unable to. (Source: Police IMR). There were multiple occasions when he accessed her phone, was verbally abusive, and stated he had tried to commit suicide by taking an overdose of co-codamol. (Source: SaBPT IMR). Although there is no record in the medical notes, her GP recalls her saying she had put up with her husband’s emotional abuse for years and had had enough.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div><b>KPE THREE: SEPARATION / BREAKDOWN OF THE FAMILY UNTIL LATE 2015</b> </div><div><br /></div><div>13.2 In 2015 Doris and Peter’s relationship began to deteriorate rapidly. After her work’s Christmas party, Doris shared a taxi home with a male colleague John, who was also having some marital issues. From this encounter a relationship started. </div><div><br /></div><div>13.3 Peter found a Christmas card to Doris from John when he was searching her handbag. Doris and Peter argued, with Doris admitting she had begun a relationship with another man. <span style="color: red;">Whilst she was asleep, Peter accessed her unlocked phone, and read the text exchanges between Doris and John. Peter texted John several times and left answerphone messages on Christmas Eve which John eventually replied to saying Peter should talk to Doris rather than him.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div>13.4 This was a difficult time for Doris and Peter although evidence suggests that Peter thought they would be able to work through their difficulties. <span style="color: red;">Early in January 2016 Doris said she wanted them to separate. Peter struggled to accept this.</span> Peter and Doris needed to share a home for financial reasons as Doris provided the regular, larger salary and was “the breadwinner”. Doris stated they should have separate bedrooms, and Peter moved into the room in the loft. The house had been under renovation for over five years. Over the following weeks Doris and Peter secured a further loan to complete the house renovation with the plan to then sell the property, split the proceeds equally and each find their own accommodation. </div><div><br /></div><div>13.5 Evidence presented to the Family Court by Peter describes Doris’s behaviour changing from late December 2015. Peter stated that Doris was becoming verbally and physically abusive towards him and the children, and that the difficulties they experienced were largely attributable to Doris’s behaviour. <span style="color: red;">Reports from family, friends and colleagues presented a different picture;</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: red;">Peter was devastated by the breakdown of the relationship and behaved in a controlling and manipulative way towards his wife, either to try and keep Doris in their relationship and / or to lay the ground for the children remaining in his care.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div><b>KPE FOUR: WELLBEING OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN JANUARY</b> <b>2016 onwards </b></div><div><br /></div><div>13.6 In the early part of 2016 the situation in the home became increasingly difficult. <span style="color: red;">Peter did not want the marriage to end, there were arguments when he would threaten to take his own life and self-harm.</span> On one occasion Peter head butted the wall in the family home. On another occasion Peter said he was going to drive his motorbike into a wall but then returned shortly afterwards unharmed. <span style="color: red;">Evidence from the Family Court describes how Peter had told Lee he was going to kill himself and that he showed her his self- harm marks. </span></div><div><br /></div><div>13.7 Doris spoke to her sister about her concerns for Peter, including her fear that she was going to return home to find Peter had seriously harmed himself. Her sister informed the Police, and Doris subsequently attended the Police station in late January 2016. <span style="color: red;">Police records of the meeting show that Doris did not consider Peter to be a danger to her or the children, but mainly a danger to himself, detailing the threats Peter had made to kill himself. She said he was not physically abusive to her but could be verbally abusive and she outlined her concerns about the knives in the home. The Police completed a DASH Risk assessment7 with Doris. In her responses Doris stated that she was very frightened when Peter “goes off on one”. She described how Peter was very jealous - he liked to check up on her and read her personal texts. He admitted that he had stalked her when they started dating 21 years ago (when Doris was around 15-16 years old). Doris also stated that Peter owned knives as he was a carpenter and he had some ceremonial swords. </span>Her 10 positive responses were assessed as ‘Standard Risk’ (meaning current evidence does not indicate likelihood of causing serious harm). Doris was signposted to ESDAS8 outreach support and given relevant literature at that time but she declined a referral to the service. The advice was for Doris to call 999 if Peter became violent or aggressive towards her or the children. Safeguarding Referrals (39/24s) were also completed for the children and for Peter and submitted to the MASH9 for dissemination to appropriate agencies. Both referrals were RAG10 rated as Amber. The referrals for Peter highlighted concern for his mental health and self-harming and also around the children witnessing the verbal altercations between Doris and Peter. (Source: Surrey Police IMR). The family was first referred to Adult Social Services in late January 2016 following Doris’s visit to the Police about Peter’s emotional wellbeing. The Duty Service Manager evaluated the PoliceSafeguarding referral form and Doris was contacted to offer details about family support services available, including ESDAS. Doris said she was aware of such services and also said Peter had seen his GP. The Duty manager made the decision that no further action was needed. (Source: Surrey Children’s Services IMR) </div><div><br /></div><div>13.8 The Surrey and Borders Partnership Trust (SABPT) Community Mental Health Recovery Service (CMHRS) received the safeguarding referral for Peter following Doris’s visit to the Police. It was reviewed by a Rapid Access Worker (RAW) and there were not felt to be any safeguarding concerns and no secondary mental health issues. The RAW wrote to the GP on 28 January 2016 enclosing the referral form and asked for Peter to be assessed and signposted as appropriate. (Source: SABT IMR) <span style="color: red;">The GP contacted Peter to arrange an appointment and he attended on 3 February 2016. Peter said that Doris had announced she was divorcing him and that she was his best friend. He was finding it hard to cope and self-harmed by head butting the wall and had suicidal thoughts, but “the kids were his protective factor”. The GP noted that Peter was very anxious, his nails were bitten and he had a fine tremor. </span>The GP prescribed antidepressants gave him contact details for CRISIS Mental Health Support (now Crisis Overnight Support Service)11 and details of the First Steps Mental Health Support Programme (currently under review due to budget constraints). On the second visit the GP noted that Peter was calmer and his main concern was that the children could be taken away. Peter was phoned the following week by the GP to check on his progress. Peter stated that he was getting on much better, had gone back to work and was not keen to access talking therapies at this stage. (Source GP IMR) </div><div><br /></div><div>13.9<span style="color: red;"> Doris was continuing to disclose to her work colleagues and family the difficulties in her relationship with Peter. Doris told them that Peter was coercive and controlling. </span>Peter alleged that Doris was angry, argumentative and, on occasions, physically abusive towards him and Lee. <span style="color: red;">On one occasion John (Doris’s new partner) described overhearing a lot of shouting between Doris and Peter during a phone call.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div>13.10 In January 2016 <span style="color: red;">Peter contacted John’s wife, initially making contact under a false name, as his first attempt through his own Facebook account had been blocked. </span>Peter and John’s wife met in a car park; it was unclear whether he revealed his real identity to her or used the false name. <span style="color: red;">She described her concerns about Peter’s threats to harm himself and John and about his behaviour generally. She said that Peter told her that he had been looking at Doris’s phone and began to cry. He asked if she was still having sex with her husband </span>and if not whether he (Peter) could get her pregnant. (Source: Trial and Family Court statements). Soon after this meeting John’s wife became ill and had to be admitted to hospital. </div><div><br /></div><div>13.11 Doris continued to confide with close friends at work about Peter’s behaviour, describing how <span style="color: red;">he would goad and provoke her, knowing, as she described ‘which buttons to press’. </span></div><div><br /></div><div>13.12 <span style="color: red;">Doris had very little personal space in the family home.</span> There are descriptions of Peter coming into her bedroom in the early morning with a torch, looking for things, of Peter always being around her. <span style="color: red;">Doris’s mother stated that the situation became intolerable for Doris. Peter would goad her and one night it became too much for Doris. She called her mother in such a state that she drove to her house and collected her. </span>Doris also told her a friend that she ‘flipped’ on 1 March 2016 during a row with Peter and she pummelled him with her fists. </div><div><br /></div><div>13.13 In March 2016, Doris visited her GP and was very depressed and tearful. She was diagnosed with Mild Mixed Anxiety and Depressive Disorder. <span style="color: red;">She stated she wanted a divorce but Peter did not and she felt angry and frustrated. </span>Doris said she had left home to stay with her mother and that Lee and Sam were with Peter. She had no concerns about the children’s welfare at that time. A small supply of sleeping tablets and antidepressants were given to Doris. From then onwards until her death, Doris was seen by a GP six times. (Source: GP IMR and SaBPT IMR). </div><div><br /></div><div>13.14 Doris reported to a work colleague that she and Peter had argued in front of the children and that <span style="color: red;">Peter prodded and pushed her and shouted in her face. He said to Lee that ‘Mummy doesn’t love me anymore and that she has a new boyfriend’</span>. In the Family Court Peter describes an incident in March 2016 when Lee intervened in an argument between them, during which he said that Doris had grabbed Lee by the neck removing her from the room and slapped her face. Peter described taking a photo of Lee’s face, to ‘show Lee’ as there wasn’t a mirror in the sitting room. He informed the Police about the photo when they attended the home in early April 2016 and gave a copy of the photo to the officers. </div><div><br /></div><div>13.15 Around this time Doris, without prior notice to Peter, took the children, with some of their belongings including passports, to stay with her mother so she could have quality time with the children. <span style="color: red;">Peter was reducing the time Doris spent with the children by phoning and keeping her talking.</span> Peter was very distressed on discovering the children had been taken without being told. They returned about a week later. Doris stated she wanted a shared care arrangement, with the children remaining in the family home, and with the parents alternating care. Peter would not agree to this because he had nowhere else to go; his father was ill in hospital and he did not want to place additional pressure on his mother. Doris wanted this arrangement to allow her to re-engage with the children stating “I need time alone with them.” However, the arrangements resulted in Doris remaining at her mother’s, getting up early and going to the family home for about 5.30am to enable Peter to go to work. She would then get the children up and take them to nursery and school before she went to work herself. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>KPE FIVE: CHANGES IN THE CHILDREN’S BEHAVIOUR</b> MARCH 2016 13.16 In February 2016 Lee’s school became concerned about incidents she mentioned happening at home and the adult way she was phrasing them. Peter told the Class Teacher in February, in front of Lee, that things were bad at home and there was physical and verbal aggression between him and Doris. <span style="color: red;">The class teacher heard Peter say to Lee ‘remember not to tell Doris you have seen me, keep it a secret’. This, and the adult language Lee used, raised concerns that Peter was grooming the children to present his point of view to others.</span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div>13.17 The Class Teacher advised the Head Teacher of the Junior School about Peter’s visit, who reinforced to Peter that parental meetings should only be by appointment and that Peter was not to seek to meet in this ad hoc way. <span style="color: red;">The concern was raised that Peter was attempting to ‘groom’ the staff to see his point of view rather than Doris’s. </span></div><div><br /></div><div>13.18 The Class Teacher disclosed that Lee would mention issues at home in a very adult way e.g. ‘Doris is never around and always with John. ‘Doris is being vicious’. ‘Daddy is always supporting us’. Having known Lee for a year, the Class Teacher considered her language to be very adult-like in nature and not age appropriate. She felt it replicated Peter’s conversation with her e.g. Lee referred to Doris as ‘now getting physical’. This reinforced concerns that Peter was manipulating the children to present his own views </div><div><br /></div><div>13.19 Peter went to see the Class Teacher again in early March 2016, reporting that ‘Doris had walked out the night before and taken Lee and Sam with her’. Peter asked her not to share this with any other agency, which she explained was not possible. The Class Teacher said Lee returned to school the next day. </div><div><br /></div><div>13.20 During this time, the school decided to introduce a ‘Worry Book’ to support Lee, in which she could write anything that concerned her. This would be confidential to her and the information would only be shared if the school had worries about her safety. The Class Teacher was concerned when Lee revealed that <span style="color: red;">Peter had said that she was ‘not to tell the teachers everything in her book’.</span> On another occasion she stated that ‘Daddy said I am allowed to tell you now’. <span style="color: red;">The Class Teacher noted there was some discrepancy between what Lee was writing in her book and what she actually described to the Class Teacher had taken place</span> e.g. in the book she described ‘punches and kicks by Doris’, but verbally she said ‘it was a slap’. Worry Book entries: ▪ Mum came home, hurt dad, nearly crashed (car) with me in it. ▪ Name calling, punching arms, slapping chest and kicking legs. ▪ Mum called me a little bitch, fucking bitch and punched me on my chest. ▪ Dad has been really nice to me and (my brother). Mum’s got a new boyfriend. ▪ Mum has told me Dad’s horrible and Mum is really nice, her boyfriend’s name is John ▪ I am worried that Dad needs to move out. ▪ Mum is going to be mean to me. John has teared our family apart (sic) ▪ I am having nightmares about my Mum killing me. ▪ Wherever I go I don’t feel safe” (Source: School IMR) </div><div><br /></div><div>13.21 The Head Teacher spoke to Peter about the correct procedures for speaking to staff through appointments, which he accepted. The Head Teacher stated that Doris had also spoken to her to say she had left the family home, the difficulties with Lee and that she had a new partner. The Head Teacher described Lee as being very vocal about Doris in ‘adult-like’ language and in her view that Lee was an emotional crutch for Peter. Lee said things like ‘John has ruined our lives’ and, on another occasion, ‘Doris had broken her marriage promise to her Daddy’. </div><div><br /></div><div>13.24 In late March 2016, Doris and the children went on holiday to the Isle of Wight with Doris’s family. <span style="color: red;">Doris was clear that her relationship with Peter was over. Doris’s family were concerned about her behaviour and the pressure she seemed to be under and her relationship with Lee was described as “being fragile”.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div>13.25 Peter had joined a dating website in January 2016 and met his new girlfriend. Peter told the Police he had asked Lee whether he should date her or not and started seeing her regularly from March 2016. The new relationship did not seem to result in any noticeable change in Peter’s behaviour towards Doris. </div><div><br /></div><div>KPE SIX: ASSAULT OF LEE and PETER BY DORIS APRIL 2016 13.26 On 8 April 2016 Doris attended the family home in order to get the children up and ready for school. Lee would not get out of bed, which resulted in Doris physically dragging her out of bed onto the floor and smacking her. Doris disclosed further details to a social worker later in April where <span style="color: red;">she explained how she had tried to get Lee out of bed and then lifted her out when she refused. Lee started hitting her and Doris held her down saying such behaviour was inappropriate. As a result, Lee rang Police alleging that Doris had assaulted her. </span>The Police attended the family home. Doris accepted she had smacked Lee and was arrested and cautioned. In her Police interview Doris also accepted there had been lots of arguments in the home and she had been physically abusive towards Peter in the past, for which she was also Cautioned. A DASH form was completed with Peter following the incident leading to thirteen positive responses and a Medium Risk evaluation. This was reassessed afterwards to Standard Risk as “current evidence does not indicate likelihood of causing serious harm” <span style="color: red;">Doris detailed her concerns that Peter may be influencing the children, in particular Lee. She stated that Lee was saying things like ‘You are not my mother, Doris. You need to dump your new boyfriend and come home’. She told the Police in relation to Peter ‘I just asked him to leave me alone and he wouldn’t. He kept coming up and coming up and I said leave me alone, just leave me alone and I had Lee there as well, standing there with her hands on her hips looking at me saying ‘You just need to come back and love us and ditch your boyfriend’. ’Stop being horrible to Daddy. He then got his mother on the phone so I had him and his mother going off and yelling at me.’</span> Safeguarding referrals, assessed as Amber, were submitted for the children regarding risk of physical harm and witnessing domestic abuse between their parents. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>KPE SEVEN: CHILD ARRANGEMENTS / COERCION and CONTROL OF THE CHILDREN 8 APRIL ONWARDS 2016</b> </div><div><br /></div><div>13.27 Following the police involvement in Lee’s assault, a social worker was allocated and undertook the s47 investigation as detailed above. The social worker met Peter on 8 April 2016 where he described the difficulties in the parents’ relationship since December 2015 <span style="color: red;">which he blamed on the changes in Doris, who he described having turned into ‘an angry person’</span>. On completion of the safeguarding enquiries, it was agreed that Doris and her mother would not have unsupervised contact with the children until further notice and that Peter would make alternative child care arrangements. Peter stated he requested support from the social worker to find an approved childminder but was advised ‘this was not their remit’. He was not referred to the Surrey Family Information Service16 where he could have easily found this information and instead looked on the internet. (Source: Meeting with Peter). The verbal agreement was eventually confirmed with a written agreement on 15 April 2016. <span style="color: red;">Until then, Doris had no independent understanding of the conditions under which she could see her children. </span>Doris was requested to provide names and details of anyone she proposed to be present during her supervised contact. The social worker did not consider that Doris’s mother posed any risk to Lee and in discussion with her manager agreed that she could have unsupervised contact with the children. This was not communicated to Doris’s mother until late May 2016, despite her chasing the local authority about the situation. <span style="color: red;">As a result there were a number of weeks when the children did not see their mother or maternal grandmother who had previously played such a large part in their lives.</span> The social worker saw Doris again six weeks later on 31 May 2016. There was no active social work involvement with the Doris and Doris’s mother between 20 April 2016 and 31 May 2016. By then, Peter had instigated an arrangement whereby Doris came to the family home on two evenings a week, Tuesday and Thursdays, to see the children and put them to bed. <span style="color: red;">This meant that Doris had no access to the children without Peter being present. </span></div><div><br /></div><div>13.28 The social worker attended Lee’s school and met with her and the relevant staff on 19 April 2016. Lee described what happened on 8 April 2016 and stated she didn’t want contact with her mother and grandmother as they ganged up on her and bullied her. <span style="color: red;">Notes from the social worker’s records states that she felt some of what Lee described had been influenced by what she had overheard, or by Peter having inappropriate conversations with her about Doris. </span>13.29 On 20 April 2016 the social worker saw Doris and her mother. <span style="color: red;">The social worker described Doris as remorseful and tearful; she explained how she had tried to get Lee out of bed, she then lifted her out when she refused. Doris described her fears about Peter’s influence on the children, particularly Lee, and that she did not want to have contact with the children whilst Peter was present.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div>13.32 <span style="color: red;">Doris was seen by her GP on 18 April 2016 and he noted her mood had dipped. Her antidepressant dose was increased and she was advised to self-refer to Mind Matters which she did on 30 April 2016. The GP recalled that Doris had stated that that “she had put up with her husband’s emotional abuse for years and had had enough”. Doris said he was manipulating the children and telling them what to do. </span></div><div><br /></div><div>13.34 Early May 2016, Doris’s mother started seeing the children again and was permitted to supervise Doris’s contact. Peter told the social work team manager on 6 May 2016 that he did not agree with this as he stated ‘there is a history of Doris and her mother ganging up on the children but that if this was our advice, then he knew who to sue if he sent the children for contact and something went wrong’. </div><div><br /></div><div>13.35 On 9 May 2016 Doris attended a therapy session; the notes record her concern that her anger and frustration will return. Through Mind Matters, Doris was offered telephone based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) guided support to help her with her low mood and anxiety. The Therapist completed the first of two telephone sessions with Doris on the 20 May 2016 and felt she engaged well. Doris mentioned having occasional thoughts of wanting to end her life but these had stopped by the second session. <span style="color: red;">Doris mentioned that she had hit her daughter and that she was frustrated with Peter still trying to maintain their relationship. She found Peter controlling and that she would have violent outbursts and slap and punch him through frustration. Doris explained she had moved on and had started a new relationship </span>and that she wanted to work on her depression and anxiety around the children (Source: SABPT IMR). </div><div><br /></div><div>13.36 Doris’s last visit to her GP was on 11 May 2016. Doris stated that things were difficult at home, Lee was still refusing to see her and that she herself was due to start counselling sessions the following week. <span style="color: red;">In his statement to the Police the GP describes Doris reporting her concerns about Peter being manipulative and controlling over the children. (Source: GP IMR)</span>. </div><div><br /></div><div>13.38 <span style="color: red;">On 17 May 2016 a neighbour witnessed an argument between the parents outside the home. He described Doris as shouting, being forceful and not wanting to speak to Peter, wanting him to go back inside.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div>13.39 On 24 May 2016<span style="color: red;"> the Nursery expressed concerns for Sam, reporting to SCS that he was soiling himself daily and was always seeking love and nurturing from an adult. The nursery reiterated their view that his father was encouraging Sam to be negative about his mother.</span> (Source: SCS IMR). </div><div><br /></div><div>13.40 Doris attended her second therapy session on 27 May 2016; she reported that Lee challenged her about not being present at Peter’s father’s funeral, when Peter had been there for her when her father died. Doris had offered to go to the funeral to look after the children but it appears she was told by Peter “she was not needed”. Doris accepted she needed to control triggers that made her upset, which included her not being able to see her children. </div><div><br /></div><div>13.41 Doris spent the Bank Holiday weekend with John. Peter contacted Doris by text over that weekend asking her to accompany him and the children to the park. Doris responded that she was unable to come at such short notice. </div><div><br /></div><div>13.42 Doris had what transpired to be her last meeting with her social worker on 31 May 2016. The Social Worker noted that: • Doris reported that she and Peter were communicating better • Doris reported that Lee was having outbursts with everybody including Peter whereas previously these were aimed just at her • Peter had informed Doris that he had taken Lee to the GP as she was having repeated nightmares about her mother killing her and wanted to arrange counselling for her. Peter said he was told there was no child psychologist available at that time. (Source: SCS IMR.) •<span style="color: red;"> That evening Doris was very distressed; she said to John that she thought that Peter was stalking her, as he had found out she was staying with him at his address, which she had only disclosed to her mother and sister. On Doris’s return to John’s flat she packed her belongings and left but was eventually persuaded to return.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div>13.43 <span style="color: red;">Around this time in May / June 2016 Peter had texted and phoned a work colleague asking ‘how much would it cost to give someone a slap’ .</span>(Source : Police IMR) </div><div><br /></div><div>13.44 <span style="color: red;">On 1 June Doris had lunch with her mother and Sam. Doris’s mother described her as being ‘tired and angry and she hurt because she told me that Peter has punched her the night before and that the bruises were just coming out’. In his Police interview after Doris’s death, Peter accepted that previously he had shoved Doris, but he stated it was only after she had hit him on his arm or shoulder. Doris had told friends that Peter had been abusive and hit her causing bruising to her breasts. Bruising was later found on Doris’s body during the post mortem.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div>13.45 John describes the evening of 1 June as being normal; Doris and he stayed in and Doris rang the children to say goodnight, although it was difficult to get Lee to speak to her.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>KPE EIGHT: DEATH OF PARENT / IMPACT ON CHILDREN</b> and AGENCIES 2 JUNE 2016 13.46 On 2 June 2016, the children went out with Doris’s mother for the day. Doris attended the family home that evening, in accordance with the child contact agreement, to help put Sam to bed. Her mother described Doris already waiting in the car outside until she arrived with the children as she had agreed with her she would not go into the home alone. </div><div><br /></div><div>13.47 <span style="color: red;">Doris’s mother described Peter as being agitated, like a ‘cat on a hot tin roof’</span>. Doris complained of a bad back and was having difficulty in moving. The children were excitedly showing Doris and Peter what they had bought during their trip that day. When Doris’s mother left at about 6.30 pm, she thought Doris was following her out of the house. </div><div><br /></div><div>13.48 Peter took Sam upstairs to bed at about 6.45 pm. Doris went to get him ready for bed and read him a story. <span style="color: red;">Doris was ready to leave but Peter wanted to discuss why she had not agreed to meet him and the children the previous weekend. They went into the kitchen and the fatal incident took place resulting in Doris’s tragic death </span>(see section 2.0 Incident One). </div><div><br /></div><div>13.49. Lee was taken to the hospital by ambulance accompanied by the Police and Helicopter Emergency Service (HEMS), Lee, Sam and Peter. Lee presented with a two inch laceration to her forearm. Lee was treated and moved to the Children’s ward, as a safe place and the children were placed under Police protection. The hospital made contact with SCS, who took emergency action to protect the children. An Interim Care Order was made on 3 June 2016 and the children were then moved to a foster placement. 13.50 On 3 June 2016, whilst still at the hospital, Sam showed the Play Specialist his teddy and said “Mummy hit daddy and Lee last night” and then began to play. He then began to scribble across the paper he was drawing on and said this was blood, and dotted the paper hard and fast saying “punch punch punch punch” and “this is mummy punch daddy face”. Sam then drew lines and said “this is mummy lying down”. </div><div><br /></div><div>13.51 Peter’s injuries were assessed on admission; he had a large knife wound to his right shoulder blade and lacerations to the back of his head and left hand. These were cleaned and sutured and he was deemed fit for discharge. (Source: Surrey and Sussex Health Care Trust (SASH) IMR) <span style="color: red;">Peter was arrested later that night and held in custody. Following interview, he was charged with murder on 5 June 2016 and released on bail on 7 June 2016,</span> with conditions that he resided at his mother’s home. 13.52 On 4 June 2016 when Doris did not turn up for work and did not answer her phone, her employer’s lone working policy was implemented. A senior officer called Doris’s next of kin and Doris’s sister informed the employer of her death. (Source: Employer IMR). 13.53 Lee’s ABE17 video interview took place on 6 June 2016.Care of the Children </div><div><br /></div><div>13.54 Children’s Services carried out the Child and Family Assessment within the agreed timescales, although the assessment was actually completed and signed off after Doris’s death, dated 9 June 2016, as acknowledged by the Manager in the Assessment. The assessment concludes ‘the children have been, and continue to be, exposed to their parents’ acrimonious relationship. <span style="color: red;">The children have been exposed to domestic violence and Peter has discussed his feelings about the separation with Lee which is inappropriate. I am of the view that Peter has not come to terms with the [end of the relationship] and believes the marriage can be reconciled although Doris is clear the marriage is over’. </span>The report recommended a Child in Need (CIN) Plan to ensure the children’s safety and that the parents continue to engage with the agencies so the risk of harm is reduced. </div><div><br /></div><div>13.55 The children remained with their first foster carers until October 2016. They were then moved to their final carers, due to allegations made by the children about how they had been treated during their first placement. Sam said he was hurt when his teeth were brushed too hard amongst other allegations. Some of those allegations have since been substantiated and are being investigated. </div><div><br /></div><div>13.56 Peter had his first supervised contact with the children in early June 2016 and thereafter his contact continued twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Doris’s mother and her family had weekly contact, more recently becoming fortnightly with one-off contacts with the maternal uncle and his family. Peter’s arrest and trial </div><div><br /></div><div>13.57 <span style="color: red;">Peter’s urine was tested on arrest on 3 June 2016 and tested positive for cocaine. Some cocaine was also found in the home which Peter accepted was his. The levels were felt to have been insufficient to have influenced his behaviour. O</span>n 3 June 2016 a face to face mental health assessment of Peter was carried out in a Police custody suite. He was described as being polite, dishevelled and in shock. Peter demonstrated he understood the reason for his arrest but his main concern was the welfare of the children. <span style="color: red;">Peter did disclose that he had had problems / suicidal thoughts / impulsive behaviour when he found out about Doris’s affair. Peter was not assessed for drug or alcohol use support whilst in custody.</span> (Source: SABPT IMR). </div><div><br /></div><div>13.58 <span style="color: red;">Peter’s first criminal trial commenced in December 2016. This had to be abandoned following a revised account of events given by Peter. 13.59 Peter’s second criminal trial commenced in May 2017. He pleaded not guilty, saying Doris’s killing was in self-defence. He was acquitted by the jury of murder after 5 days deliberation in late May 2017</span>. </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: red;">Agencies did not necessarily see Doris as a victim, as professionals did not fully understand the characteristics of someone who was being controlled and coerced. It appears that professionals linked domestic abuse to physical violence and therefore Peter was seen as the victim.</span> <span style="color: red;">It appears that professionals linked domestic abuse to physical violence and therefore Peter was seen as the victim. </span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><b>15.5 Lack of understanding of Domestic Abuse including Coercive Controlling Behaviour.</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>15.2 <span style="color: red;">Doris, Peter, Lee and Sam seemed a reasonably happy ‘normal’ family to most observers up until late 2015, although Doris suggested she was experiencing verbal /physical abuse (black eye) including an allegation of rape and controlling behaviours from Peter during this time; undermining her in front of her friends about her weight and appearance, stalking, threats to self-harm and resisting separation. </span>Both parents worked, and they had the pressure of caring for two young children, getting them to school / nursery and a house that “resembled a building site” for a number of years. In 2015 Doris met her new partner John and the subsequent breakdown in the relationship with Peter and Lee was rapid and resulted in Doris’s death six month later on 2 June 2016. 15.3 Key themes identified: Through analysis of the significant volume of information gathered, the following issues were recognised: <span style="color: red;">i. Domestic Abuse – including coercive and controlling behaviour and lack of understanding of a victim’s behaviour, including the use of retaliatory violence.</span>ii. Mental Health Issues relating to Doris, Peter, Lee and Sam which could have indicated domestic abuse. iii. <span style="color: red;">Lack of professional curiosity around DA including coercive controlling and stalking behaviour. iv. Lack of understanding around the DASH risk assessment and how a small number of factors such as coercive control, stalking, separation, self-harm, mental ill health can indicate a situation is high risk regardless of the number of ticks. v. Lack of understanding of the family dynamics during the breakdown of a family relationship. vi. Lack of understanding by professionals of grooming behaviour, especially relating to the children and key professionals involved. vii. The lack of communication between agencies and between agencies and the family especially relating to KPE Six. viii. Lack of risk management around the assessment of KPE Four and KPE Six. ix. Professionals lacked the skill to know how to listen and fully understand the voice of the child with complex family relationships. 15.4 Were there any barriers experienced by Doris, Peter / friends / colleagues in seeking support from professional service providers? Doris, Peter and the children were involved with many service providers, namely the Police, SCS, health agencies, education and the workplace. Prior to the break-up of their relationship, contact with the various agencies e.g. school and health were seen as routine. In January 2016 as part of KPE Four (Wellbeing of Parents and Children), several agencies became involved with the family; the Police, social services and health. The IMRs indicate that professionals saw this as a key episode in the life of the family, linked to the breakdown of the relationship between Doris and Peter and the children. Peter was seen as the victim and Doris was seen as the person responsible for breaking up the relationship.</span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><b>15.5 Lack of understanding of Domestic Abuse including Coercive Controlling Behaviour.</b> 15.5i The DASH: <span style="color: red;">Doris raised her concerns about Peter to the Police in January 2016 which suggests that she did not feel safe. She highlighted that she had hidden Peter’s hunting knife and ornamental swords for Peter’s protection but also for her own.</span> A DASH was completed which was graded at Standard Risk despite indicators around separation, <span style="color: red;">disclosures of Peter’s stalking behaviour, jealousy and Peter’s mental health including self-harm. If the DASH had recognised these indicators as key risk factors linked homicide, it would have been assessed as High Risk and Doris could have been referred immediately to the MARAC </span>(Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference) for a full review of safeguarding options available and an automatic referral to ESDAS. It should be noted that since the incident, the Police have had extensive training in DA including controlling coercive behaviour and DASH Risk Assessments. In discussion with the Police involved in KPE Four, <span style="color: red;">they have all indicated that they would now see this incident differently and a referral to the appropriate services would be made.</span> 15.5ii SCS involvement: This was limited, based on verbal information shared between the Police and themselves. At the first referral with the family, only support information was provided and no contact was made. If the DASH had identified the issues and concerns above, it is likely that there would have been more safeguarding concerns and interventions around the children. </div><div><br /></div><div>15.5iii Mental Health: Professionals focused on the relationship breakdown between Doris and Peter as the cause of the mental health issues in their lives. <span style="color: red;">At no time were they linked to possible domestic abuse, despite Doris saying she had been bullied and controlled for many years. </span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div>15.12 Identification of any training or awareness-raising requirements required to ensure a greater knowledge and understanding of the impact of domestic abuse and availability of support services: Since 2016, Surrey Police have embarked on an extensive DA training programme (DA Matters and DASH). This model of training should be adopted by other professionals e.g. social care and health professionals, and the countywide Safeguarding programme run by the Safeguarding Boards, to ensure a common understanding of the characteristics of DA, the services available in the community and how to signpost and support not only the victim but also the family. T<span style="color: red;">here is no doubt that Peter groomed and manipulated professionals. He refused to comply with school policy about making appointments to see teachers and tried to control the situation by simply turning up unannounced. He dictated the visiting arrangements for Doris to see the children to suit his own ends, despite having a formal written agreement that social workers and the family had approved. Many professionals identified that they need training to better understand the concept of grooming and how to manage a person trying to influence and groom them.</span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div>16.7 Lack of risk management around the assessment of KPE Four and KPE Six: The Review and especially the agencies involved with the family, identified that professionals needed to evaluate the risk around the decisions they made. If Doris had been charged and not cautioned (KPE Six) then extra support may have been made available to the family. <span style="color: red;">The significance of stalking was not identified at that time. Doris disclosed that Peter had previously stalked her and felt that he was doing so again just before she was killed, by following her and by reading her phone. Doris’s family stated that Doris started to wear a wig when going out to disguise herself, indicating that she was fearful of Peter stalking her..</span> A study42 (MonktonSmith 2017) found stalking was present in 94% of the 358 cases of criminal homicides they looked at. Surveillance activity, including covert watching, was recorded 63% of the time. 85% of homicides occurred in the victim’s home. In almost every case, the killer displayed the obsessive, fixated behaviour associated with stalking. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>17 CONCLUSIONS</b> <span style="color: red;">This review has highlighted the tragic cost of coercive control and domestic abuse resulting in the death of Doris and the emotional and physical abuse suffered by the children</span>. The incident has a wide and enduring impact upon families, friends, colleagues and professionals. Doris and Peter appeared to have a reasonable relationship until late 2015, although Doris mentioned she had felt controlled for years. There was then a rapid deterioration during their relationship breakdown and the separation resulting in the tragic death of Doris, the serious injury to Lee and the emotional harm to Lee and Sam. 17.1 <span style="color: red;">During the six months prior to Doris’s death a number of agencies had contact with the family. It would appear that agencies did not link events to see a ‘bigger picture’ and did not review the needs of the whole family during a time of relationship break up and separation. This contributed to the lack of understanding around risk in domestic abuse and how separation can be a key indicator of high likelihood of serious harm.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div>17.2 <span style="color: red;">In 2016 there appeared to be a general lack of understanding by many professionals (and the wider community) regarding the breadth of domestic abuse and all its iterations. Section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 201543 created a new offence of controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship. The legislation is still in its infancy and it remains a slow process of raising understanding. This confusion perhaps explains why it is still primarily physical acts of violence that are focused upon in response to domestic abuse. </span>There is much more information required locally and nationally about controlling and coercive behaviour so that communities and especially victims know how to identify such behaviours. Professionals need a common understanding and approach to DA including training. The Police DA Matters programme appears to provide an excellent model in supporting cultural change and providing staff with the relevant tools to support the community in the future. All professionals working with families and children need to be empowered within a culture that encourages further insight, discussion and support outside of their respective organisations in order to raise concerns. <span style="color: red;">As an example Doris did say to the GP that she had had enough of being controlled by Peter. The GP at the time did not probe further as they may not have been fully conversant with coercive behaviour and as such would not have understood this as domestic abuse. This review identifies that it is imperative that agencies work together to provide a coordinated approach to supporting families through crisis. </span></div></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile. "Peter" is now free. The question for feminist women is just this...... <b>why?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>A member of Doris's family has said,</div><div><br /></div><div><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> "In 2015 Doris told me she was leaving him. She said she had been controlled for 20 years. So she left him. On June 2nd 2016 she went to the family home to say goodnight to the children. Doris lost her life that night. The cops came at 2am to tell us she had been murdered. The perpetrator was charged with murder. The leading knife expert in the country disputed his account and said that in all likelihood he had slit her throat from behind. The jury took 3 days to decide to decide that the butchered from behind wife, the "turned into the hulk" wife, the 14 stone, 6ft, affair-having wife had brought this on herself and the perpetrator was acquitted. Free to go. Just let that sink in. After the acquittal the coroner closed the inquest. The business of Doris was closed."</b></span></i></div><div><br /></div><div>She also said of the subsequent fact finding hearings... and this is absolutely crucial to address.... </div><div><br /></div><div><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>"Agencies couldn't join the dots because they didn't know what the dots looked like! What could they have done better? I don't know. I haven't read 750 Domestic Homicide Reviews. I only know this one about Doris. We didn't get justice. He was acquitted. We didn't get an inquest, it was closed. The DHR was the only thing we had to balance any kind of narrative that was out there that everybody else was listening to. So it did give us status. It gave Doris status. Doris died! It really was like the business of Doris is finished. He must be innocent right because he was acquitted. That's how the law works right? That's how people see it. The DHR was our only avenue. The power of it is immense. Everyone doing it owes it to the victim and their families to do this right. Families just want the truth, no matter how ugly or gritty it is. I've got to pick a pseudonym for Doris to go in the Domestic Homicide review. Ask yourself how you would make that decision? How do you do that? My thoughts.... if you are involved in this then be the best you can because you owe it to the victim and you owe it to their families. You owe it to everybody that they loved and knew. It's not just a report. It's not just a bunch of words. It's really important. "</b></span></i></div><div><br /></div><div>I think this report shows that a Doris could have been saved. The man who killed her is free amongst us. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Here is the full DHR. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>1.0 PREFACE</b> </div><div><br /></div><div>1.1 This report of a combined Domestic Homicide Review and a Serious Case Review examines
agency responses and support given to Doris and Lee and their family including Peter and Sam
before Doris’s death in June 2016. The family were residents in Surrey.
The review will identify any agency involvement and will also seek to understand the family
dynamics in the build up to Doris’s killing, whether support was accessed within the community,
whether there are identified gaps in provision and whether there were any barriers to accessing
support. By taking a holistic approach the review seeks to identify appropriate solutions to make
the future safer. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>1.2 DHR:</b> Domestic Homicide Reviews became statutory under Section 9 of the Domestic
Violence, Crime and Adult Act 2004 and came into force on 13 April 2011. The Act requires a
review of the circumstances in which the death of a person aged 16 or over has, or appears to
have, resulted from violence, abuse or neglect by a person to whom they were either related, in
an intimate personal relationship with or living with in the same household.
The key purpose for undertaking DHRs is to enable lessons to be learned from homicides where
a person is killed as a result of domestic violence and abuse. In order for these lessons to be
learned as widely and thoroughly as possible, professionals need to be able to understand fully
what happened in each homicide, and most importantly, what needs to change in order to reduce
the risk of such tragedies happening in the future. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>1.3 SCR:</b> Serious Case Reviews are commissioned by the Independent Chair of the Local
Safeguarding Children Board where:
(a) abuse or neglect of a child is known or suspected; and
(b) either -
i. the child has died; or
ii. the child has been seriously harmed and there is cause for concern as to the way in
which the authority, their Board partners or other relevant persons have worked
together to safeguard the child.
iii. It should be noted that Sam was not initially identified as a victim by Surrey
Safeguarding Children Board. The DHR/SCR Panel has included him due to the
obvious emotional abuse and trauma he experienced in the build-up, during and after
his mother’s death.
1.4 Time scales: The review will consider agencies’ contact / involvement with the family. The
review began July 2016 and concluded with submission to the Home Office in July 2019. The
Home Office requested some alterations in March 2020.and that the report should be published
in a fully anonymised format. <span style="color: red;">Doris’s family had hoped to use her original name in the report
but respected the Home Office decision. The family chose the pseudonym ‘Doris’ as used in
the report.
This report reflects the Home Office amendments.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>The Home Office agreed to the extension of the standard six-month deadline due to the
additional parallel investigations: two criminal court hearings, two Family Court Fact Finding
hearings and the Children’s Welfare hearing. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>1.5 Incident summary</b>: </div><div><br /></div><div>The purpose of this review is to examine the circumstances surrounding
the tragic death of Doris, and the physical abuse to Lee, including the serious injury she
sustained during the incident in which her mother died. <span style="color: red;">Doris was stabbed to death in her home
in June 2016 by Peter who pleaded self-defence and was later acquitted of her murder in May
2017. Prior to her death, she was issued with an Adult Caution for smacking Lee and common
assault on Peter.</span>
1.6 Confidentiality: The detailed findings of each review are confidential. Information is
available only to participating officers / professionals and their line managers. A confidentiality
agreement has been signed at each meeting of the DHR Panel.
1.7 Dissemination: The Executive Summary, Overview Report and Recommendations have
been redacted to ensure confidentiality, with pseudonyms used for the victim, children and
father. The reports have been disseminated to the following groups:
▪ East Surrey Community Safety Partnership
▪ Surrey Adult and Surrey Children Safeguarding Boards
▪ Surrey Community Safety Board
▪ Surrey DHR Oversight Group
▪ Surrey Domestic Abuse Management Board
▪ The Leader of the local Council and relevant Portfolio Holders in the Borough where the
death took place
▪ East Surrey DA Working Group
▪ The Office of Surrey Police & Crime Commissioner (OPCC)
▪ The agencies involved on the DHR Panel (See Appendix 1)
▪ The family of Doris (DHR and elements of SCR) and Peter (SCR).
The DHR/SCR panel members wish to thank the family, friends and colleagues who
participated in the review. We understand what a difficult time this must be and offer our
sincerest sympathies on their tragic loss.
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2.0 DETAILS OF THE INCIDENTS
Incident One (Domestic Homicide)
2.1 On 2 June 2016, a 999 call was made by Peter from the family home. He described a knife
attack upon himself and his daughter Lee and identified the assailant as Doris. Peter explained
that Doris was in the dining room and that he was safe in the bedroom with their two children
Lee and Sam. Peter stated that Lee had a cut on her arm and that he had a cut on his hand
and his head was bleeding. He did not mention that Doris had significant injuries.
2.2 When the Police arrived at the house, they found Doris lying face down in a large pool of
blood on the dining room floor. A Police officer turned Doris over and there was a large cut
across her throat.
2.3 Peter, Lee and Sam were located upstairs in a bedroom. Peter was holding a sock to Lee’s
injury and was crying. Both children kept asking “Why would mummy hurt us?” Peter stated that
he had been hit on the head twice with a knife.
2.4 An ambulance and Police units arrived at the house and Doris was confirmed to be deceased
at the scene. Peter, Lee and Sam were taken to hospital accompanied by the Police.
2.5 Later that evening on 2 June 2016, Peter was arrested on suspicion of Doris’s murder.
2.6 Lee and Sam were taken into Police protection at the hospital until a foster placement could
be arranged. The Local Authority issued an application for a Care Order (Children Act 1989)
and they were subsequently made the subjects of an interim Care Order.
2.7 On 3 and 4 June 2016 Peter was interviewed under caution. Peter stated that on 2 June
2016 he had been out at work and had returned home at 17.30. Lee and Sam had been out
with their maternal grandmother and arrived shortly after him and Doris was already at the house
waiting in her car outside. Doris’s family stated that she did not enter the house as she was
frightened of being alone with Peter. Doris and Peter were living separately at the time but
shared the care of the children.
Later in the evening, Peter and Doris had an argument in the kitchen over Doris’s poor
relationship with Lee. Peter states that Lee came between them, at which point Doris picked up
a knife and swung it at Lee, cutting her arm. He states he pushed Lee out of the room and that
Doris then swung the knife at him resulting in two cuts to his head. Peter took the knife from
Doris but stated she kept coming towards him and they grappled. During this he inflicted the
fatal knife wound to Doris’s neck. Peter went upstairs to be with Lee and Sam and contacted
the Police. He claimed he had acted in self-defence.
2.8 Post Mortem: On 4 June 2016, a post mortem examination was carried out. The Consultant
Forensic Pathologist found that Doris had sustained incised open wounds to both hands, a
13.5cm long deep incised injury to her throat that had severed her carotid artery and jugular vein
and completely severed her windpipe and oesophagus, resulting in massive blood loss. Cause
of death was given as ‘incised wound to the neck. The Pathologist opined that Doris would have
collapsed and died a short time afterwards due to massive loss of blood circulation. Toxicology
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revealed traces of Mirtazapine (anti-depressants) and Ibuprofen in Doris’s body. No alcohol or
illegal substances were detected.
2.9 On 5 June 2016 Peter was charged with Doris’s murder.
Incident Two (Serious incident against a child)
2.10 On 8 April 2016 the Police received a distressed call from Lee who stated she had been
assaulted by her mother, Doris. A Police unit was immediately deployed to the family home and
Lee answered the door, clearly upset and crying. Lee stated that Doris had thrown her off her
bed onto the floor and started punching her and kicking her.
2.11 Doris was interviewed by the Police and admitted that she had hit Lee on the bottom for
misbehaving as she would not get out of bed to go to her grandmother’s house. The Police
contacted Peter who was at work; he disclosed that Doris had assaulted him on a number of
occasions since January 2016.
2.12 On 8 April 2016 Doris was arrested on suspicion of assault on Lee. She was Cautioned
for smacking Lee’s bottom and for Common Assault on Peter.
3.0 THE REVIEW
3.1 Surrey Police notified the East Surrey Community Safety Partnership (ES CSP) of Doris’s
death in June 2016. The ES CSP met in July 2016 and decided that the criteria for a DHR had
been met. Liz Borthwick was appointed as independent chair, supported by Debbie Stitt as
coordinator (see Section 6.1 below).
3.2 The DHR was commissioned by ES CSP in accordance with the revised Statutory Guidance
for the conduct of Domestic Homicide Review1 published by the Home Office in March 2016.
3.3 The Strategic Case Review Group (SCRG) of Surrey Safeguarding Children Board (SSCB)
received a referral for a Serious Case Review (SCR) and considered Lee’s case in September
2016. It agreed that the case met the criteria for a proportionate SCR, in accordance with the
Working Together 2015 Statutory Guidance2
. The DHR / SCR Panel subsequently included
Sam within the SCR as a victim of emotional abuse.
3.4 It was agreed by the SSCB and ES CSP that both reviews would be combined (i.e. a joint
DHR & SCR) to streamline information gathering and to reduce the emotional impact on family
and friends being interviewed twice for the reviews. Ofsted3 and the SCR National Panel were
notified in October 2016.
3.5 The Chair of ES CSP notified the Home Office on 18 July 2016 that a combined DHR / SCR
would be commencing. The Home Office agreed to extend the initial 6 month deadline (and to
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further extensions on several subsequent occasions) due to the numerous parallel processes
taking place including two criminal court hearings, two Family Court Fact Finding hearings and
the Children Care Proceedings hearing.
3.6 The joint DHR/SCR involved one Panel, with membership including representatives from the
Surrey Safeguarding Partnership. The Independent Chair updated as appropriate the ESCSP
and SSCP (SCR Strategic Project Group). This ensured that the joint review followed the
requirement of the Home Office DHR statutory guidance and Ofsted Working Together to
Safeguard Children guidance.
4 TERMS OF REFERENCE
4.1 Terms of Reference were agreed by the DHR / SCR Panel in July 2016 and were regularly
reviewed and amended as further details of the incident emerged (see Appendix 2 for the final
version.).
5. PARALLEL INVESTIGATIONS AND RELATED PROCESSES
<span style="color: red;">5.1 Inquest
An inquest was opened into Doris’s on 10 June 2016. Once Peter’s verdict of ‘Not Guilty of
Murder’ was received the inquest was not resumed and a final death certificate was issued</span>.
5.2 Serious Case Review
The Surrey Safeguarding Children Board (SSCB) was represented on the DHR panel from the
outset, which was renamed the DHR / SCR Panel to reflect its joint responsibilities. Lee was
nine years old at the time of the incidents. Every attempt has been made to include the voice of
Lee and also Sam within the process and discover any relevant learning. The Panel agreed that
the Terms of Reference would include Doris, Lee and Sam.
5.3 Criminal Trial
Peter was put on trial for the murder of Doris in December 2016. After four days the trial was
stopped as Peter made further revelations about the attack. The second trial commenced in
May 2017. Following a trial lasting five weeks and deliberation by the Jury over five days Peter
was acquitted of Doris’s murder.
5.4 Family Court Fact Finding Hearing
5.4.1 An initial Fact-Finding Hearing took place in the summer of 2017 as part of the
proceedings within the Family Court. Following a two week hearing the Judge stated in the
report that Peter had killed Doris and that he had not acted in self-defence. Peter appealed
the Judge’s findings as this was not the outcome of the criminal trial. The appeal was upheld
leading to a further hearing with a different judge in April 2018
5.4.2 All witnesses were required to be re-interviewed as part of the process. The Judge
made the following conclusions:
• On 2 June 2016, Peter had killed Doris by cutting her throat.
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• That following the breakdown in the relationship of Peter and Doris between December
2015 and June 2016, both parents failed to protect their children from their numerous
verbal and physical disputes.
• That Lee and Sam had suffered long lasting trauma resulting from their exposure to the
acrimonious and violent relationship between Peter and Doris and the death of Doris.
• That Peter inappropriately involved the children, especially Lee, in the adult matters of
the parents’ relationship.
By way of example:
▪ Asking Lee to decide whether he should go out with his new partner.
▪ Asking Lee to unlock Doris’s phone so that he could check it for messages;
▪ Encouraging Lee to check her mother’s phone, leading to disclosure at school that her
new boyfriend was under the name that mum and dad were going to call their baby,
should they have another daughter;
▪ Telling Lee to throw her mother’s phone on the floor so that it smashed;
▪ Telling Lee not to say too much to people at school because he did not want to get social
services involved;
▪ Engaging in a collusive relationship with Lee, including instructing her not to tell Doris
that he had been talking to her school teacher and to keep it a secret;
▪ Causing Lee to side with him against her mother in the parental disputes.
5.5 Care Proceedings
The Care Proceedings in respect of the children concluded in the autumn 2018. A Special
Guardianship Order was made in respect of both children with their paternal uncle and aunt,
along with a Supervision Order to Surrey County Council for 12 months.
5.6 Police Disciplinary Investigation
5.6.1 The Police referred their involvement in this incident to the Independent Office for Police
Conduct (IOPC). The IOPC stated there was no case to answer and referred it back for a
local an internal investigation.
5.6.2 Surrey Police reviewed its involvement in the case through its Public Protection
Standards Team (PPST) and PSD (Professional Standards Unit) The conclusion stated there
was no individual misconduct; the issues identified should be addressed in the form of
learning, especially in the issuing of simple Police Cautions for child abuse.
This was followed by a Death or Serious Injuries report in which several individual and
learning recommendations were made. Many of these were for internal training and guidance
for individual Police roles. Those with wider implications are included Appendix 3.
6.0 PANEL MEMBERSHIP AND REPRESENTATIVES
The Panel consisted of senior representatives from the following agencies (see Appendix 1 for
full list of officer attendees):
Surrey Police
Surrey Safeguarding Children Board
Surrey County Council Children’s Services
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Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust
Surrey-wide Designated GP for Safeguarding Children
Surrey and Borders NHS Foundation Trust
East Surrey Domestic Abuse Services (ESDAS)
Lee’s School
East Surrey Community Safety Partnership
The local Borough Council
Independent DHR / SCR Chair
Independent DHR/SCR Coordinator
The panel met 10 times during the period July 2016-May 2019.
6.1 Independence of Chair
The Chair and author of the review is Liz Borthwick, formerly Assistant Chief Executive at
Spelthorne Borough Council. Liz has a wide range of expertise including Services for Vulnerable
Adults and Children, housing and domestic violence. She has conducted partnership Domestic
Homicide Reviews for the Home Office and has attended Home Office Independent Chair
training for DHRs and further DHR Chair training with Advocacy after Fatal Domestic Abuse
(AAFDA). Liz has also been involved with a number of SCRs. Liz has no connection with the
local Borough or any of the agencies in this case.
Liz was supported in this review by Debbie Stitt as DHR / SCR Coordinator. Debbie has worked
in Community Safety for many years and has a thorough understanding and knowledge of
domestic abuse and the processes involved in DHRs. Debbie has attended Home Office training
in the running and delivery of DHRs.
7.0 SUBJECTS OF THE REVIEW
The main subjects of this review are:
DHR/SCR subject Date of birth Date of death
Doris - deceased victim
(female adult) and cautioned for
physical abuse to Lee and DA to Peter
−−−−− 1977 2
nd June 2016
Peter - perpetrator
(male adult); cleared of murder by
Criminal Court; alleged DA victim
−−−−− 1973
Lee - victim
of physical and emotional abuse
−−−−− 2007
Sam - victim
of emotional abuse
−−−−− 2011
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Significant others:
Subject Relationship
Doris’s mother Maternal grandmother
Doris’s sister Maternal aunt
John Doris’s new partner
8.0 METHODOLOGY
8.1 Contributors to the Review
8.1.1 Statutory and Voluntary Agencies:
Each involved Surrey agency submitted an Individual Management Review (IMR) in
accordance with the statutory guidance. Authors were independent of the incident and the
reports were Quality Assured by the organisation. As the review progressed, additional
agencies were identified who had contact with the family members and further information
was requested. IMRs were received from:
▪ Surrey Police
▪ Surrey County Council Children Services
▪ Surrey and Borders Partnership Foundation NHS Trust (SaBPT)
▪ Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH)
▪ Children and Family Health Surrey (CFHS)
▪ Health (Surrey GPs)
▪ Lee’s Primary School
▪ Sam’s Nursery
▪ Doris’s Employer
The panel has given detailed consideration and professional challenge to the IMRs
submitted by these agencies and the final documents have contributed significantly to this
report.
The following agencies and voluntary groups were contacted and confirmed that they had
no relevant engagement with the family:
▪ The local Borough Council
▪ ESDAS (East Surrey Domestic Abuse Services)
▪ Surrey Youth Service
▪ Surrey County Council Adult Care
8.1.2 The Independent Chair supplemented the IMR information with face to face group
meetings with some of the front-line Police officers and social workers involved in the two
incidents. Issues explored included the culture of the organisation at the time of the various
incidents, pressures on services and why decisions were made. The information, honesty
and insight into why decisions were made were very difficult to capture in an IMR and
therefore the interviews were invaluable in this review.
8.1.3 The Independent Chair and Coordinator of the DHR / SCR attended the start and the
conclusion of Peter’s trial.
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8.1.4 The Family Court Fact Finding Reports were also shared with the Independent Chair
and the Panel to inform this review. The Independent Chair made a request to obtain further
background reports relating to parenting and psychology assessment of Peter but Peter
refused to allow disclosure.
8.1.5 Further information was also provided about by the private counselling agency which
was commissioned by Doris’s employer.
8.1.6 Information was also provided about the initial Foster placement investigation into
alleged physical abuse of the children and this provided post review learning.
8.2 Involvement of Family, Friends, Work Colleagues, Neighbours and the wider
Community
Information has been supplemented through interviews / conversations with family, friends, work
colleagues and Doris’s employer in an attempt to understand the personal backgrounds of Doris,
Peter, Lee and Sam.
8.3 Research by the Independent Chair relating to Doris, Peter, Lee and Sam took place through
face-to-face meetings and telephone conversations as detailed below, Individuals were provided
with the relevant Home Office leaflet (for family, friends, employers and colleagues) in advance.
All those contributing were able to do so using the medium they preferred.
8.4 Contact with Doris’s family: The families of Doris and Peter have been updated regularly
throughout the Review, regardless of whether they chose to be involved in the process. Lee
and Sam have been kept updated via contact with the children’s Social Worker. Doris’s mother
and sister attended a DHR / SCR Panel meeting on 13th December 2017, accompanied by their
AAFDA4 Support worker. This meeting had a profound effect on the Panel, highlighting the
impact of the domestic homicide on the family. They also attended a further Panel meeting in
May 2019 having read the draft report and raised a number of questions in advance. The
Children’s Services representative arranged a separate meeting to discuss concerns.
Peter, as the remaining parent involved, refused permission for Doris’s mother and sister to see
the entire SCR report, stating that ‘the whole family really need to move on’. Doris’s mother and
sister were given the opportunity to discuss the sections they had contributed to and to highlight
any factual amendments.
8.5 Contact with Peter and his family: Peter and his family initially declined to contribute to
the review. Much later in the process, Peter agreed to meet with the Independent Chairperson,
Support Manager from Surrey Safeguarding Children Board and the DHR / SCR Coordinator.
Peter was also kept updated about the review by letter. All other members of Peter’s family who
were contacted declined to take part.
8.6 Research and contacts by the Chair
The Chair made the following contacts to gather further insight into ‘the voice’ of the victim:
4 AAFDA - Advocacy After Fatal Abuse https://aafda.org.uk/
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8.6.1 Meetings:
• Doris’s mother
• Doris’s sister
• Doris’s friends and work colleagues
• Doris’s new partner (referred to as John)
• Doris’s employer
• Social workers for Lee and Sam
• Head teacher of Lee’s school and the Safeguarding Lead
8.5.2 By Telephone:
• Surrey County Council Children Services Manager
• Surrey-wide Designated GP for Safeguarding Children
• Sam’s nursery
• Doris’s sister’s partner
• Doris’s brother
• Neighbours of Doris and Peter
• Senior Management at Doris’s employment.
8.6 The Independent Chair and the Panel discussed whether contact should be made with the
children to add their voice to the DHR / SCR. It was decided this would not be appropriate as
Lee has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and Sam was being assessed
by Social Services for learning issues. The Independent Chair viewed the video evidence given
by Lee in the criminal trial. It was felt that Lee and Sam’s social worker could act as their voice
to ensure they had the ability to contribute if they so wished.
9. EQUALITIES
9.1 Doris was a 39 year old heterosexual white British woman. Doris’s relationship began with
Peter in 1993 and they were married in 2003.
9.2 Lee was 9 years old at the time of her injury and is a white British Child. Sam (who was not
seen originally as a victim in the SCR) is now included as a subject of the DHR / SCR as his
emotional welfare suffered during the breakdown of the marriage. Sam was 4 at the time of his
mother’s death and is also a white British Child.
9.3 Peter is a heterosexual white British man who was a 43 year old at the time of the incident.
9.4 The nine protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010 were considered (age, disability,
gender re-assignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion
or belief, sex, sexual orientation). Only two of these characteristics are considered by the review
to have had an impact – marriage and sex. These two characteristics are considered later within
this report.
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10.0 KEY PRACTICE EPISODES:
Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)-Learning Together 5
10.1 A wealth of information has been made available for this review through the Court
proceedings, the Family Courts and significant detail within the IMRs. The Independent Chair
and the DHR / SCR Panel agreed to utilise the SCIE model “Learning together” to identify the
key episodes in the lives of Doris, Peter, Lee and Sam which led up to Doris’s death.
10.2 The Key Practice Episodes (KPE) are identified below and will be referred to throughout
the report.
• KPE One: Early family relationships and health, including birth of their children
• KPE Two: Bullying and coercion of Doris by Peter and grooming of the children and
professionals
• KPE Three: Separation / breakdown of the family unit late 2015
• KPE Four: Wellbeing of parents and children January 2016
• KPE Five: Changes in Lee and Sam’s behaviour March 2016
• KPE Six: Assault of Lee and Peter by Doris April 2016
• KPE Seven: Child arrangements/coercion and control of the children April 2016
• KPE Eight: Death of parent / impact on children and agencies June 2016
11. OVERVIEW OF FAMILY LIFE
This section describes family life up until December 2015 when there was a significant change
within the family.
KPE ONE: EARLY FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND HEALTH
INCLUDING BIRTH OF THEIR CHILDREN
11.1 Peter was 43, and Doris was 39 at the time of her death. They met around 1993 and married
in May 2003. They moved to the family home in 2006 where they were still living when Doris
was killed on 2 June 2016. According to information provided, Peter had a very strict upbringing
and his father was a bully and disciplinarian often using physical punishment.
11.2 Doris and Peter lived in south London until 2010 but then moved to be closer to the
maternal/paternal parent’s homes to facilitate easier childcare. Doris’s father died in 2014. Her
sister and brother lived away from the area.
11.3 Lee was born in 2007. Peter and Doris had been trying to have a child and they were
overjoyed. Lee started school in September 2011. She had good attendance and was
supported by her parents at parents’ evenings and other school events. (Source: School IMR)
11.4 Following a family holiday to Australia when Lee was three, Peter became unsettled and
spoke with Doris about the family moving there. Doris refused as she wanted to stay near her
family.
5 https://www.scie.org.uk/children/learningtogether/
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11.5 Peter then began to carry out extensive building work in their home. A comment was made
that the family home resembled a building site for a number of years.
11.6 Doris and Peter were desperately trying for a second child and Doris had a miscarriage
before Sam was born in 2011. Several family and work colleagues spoke of how sad Doris was
at the loss of this child but also spoke of her joy at the arrival of the Sam; Lee and Sam were
much wanted by both parents. A family member said that Doris was thrilled at being a mother.
Sam started at nursery when he was three years old. Doris dropped him off and nursery staff
said she was very caring. (Source: Nursery IMR)
11.7 During the period of the review, Doris, Peter, Lee and Sam were registered with one GP
practice in Surrey. Family contact with the GP had been unremarkable until the last six months
before Doris’s death. The children attended routine appointments and there were no
safeguarding concerns. Peter had no recorded history of previous mental health problems,
alcohol or substance misuse, and no recording in relation to domestic abuse. Doris had no
history of mental health problems until the consultations of March-May 2016. From then
onwards until her death, Doris was seen by a GP six times. (Source: GP IMR)
11.8 Both parents worked; Peter was a carpenter and since 2003, Doris had worked in IT with
a local housing provider. In 2013, Doris was signed off work for around 3 months due to stress,
relating to a grievance she had taken out against her manager. Her grievance was upheld and
she returned to work. Following a restructure in Doris’s department she achieved promotion.
11.9 Doris and Peter were assisted with childcare by Doris’s mother and the paternal
grandparents. Sam started nursery in January 2015 and Doris took on the nursery / school runs
before work. Prior to early 2016 there were no concerns noted about the children at either Lee’s
school, or Sam’s nursery. The school and nursery reported to the Family Court Fact Finding
that the children’s progress had been very positive. Both parents disciplined the children with
the occasional smack as did Doris’s mother. The family have stated that Peter had a long ruler
with which he used to chastise the children.
11.10 Surrey Police reviewed their local and national databases for prior involvement with the
family. Peter had a PNC6
record showing he had seven convictions for theft / fraud / kindred
offences in 1994.
Doris had a PNC record for the simple Adult Caution relating to the assaults against Lee and
Peter in April 2016 as detailed earlier in this report. (Source: Surrey Police IMR
12 VOICES OF THE VICTIMS (based on information provided by family,
friends and reports)
12.1 Doris
12.1 1 Doris was viewed as lively and fun. She was a good mother and loved her children.
She was very well respected by her employer and her colleagues and was good at her job.
She was also always the first to organise social events and in the words of one of her
colleagues “got things done”. Doris enjoyed girly nights out as well as the fellowship with
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mothers at the children’s play group. She loved Star Wars and Disney. Doris could have
great high moods but also low periods and she sometimes became very angry.
12.1.2 The last six months of Doris’s life were chaotic. With the breakdown of her relationship
with Peter, she experienced great stress, mental health issues, coercion and control by Peter
of the situation, domestic abuse, and loss of daily access to her children. This eventually led
to the incident where she lost her life. In the words of her family, “Doris was never seen as a
victim by the professionals involved during this time”.
12.2 Lee
12.2.1 Lee is a very bright and articulate girl, funny and outgoing with an ‘old head’ on her.
She loves singing, dancing and drama. She was a Daddy’s girl. As her relationship with her
mother deteriorated, she began to refuse to call her ‘Mummy’ and referred to her as Doris.
Her behaviour towards her mother became verbally and physically aggressive including
pushing Doris downstairs and spitting in her face, which would appear to have been
encouraged, or certainly allowed to go unchallenged by Peter.
12.2.2 Lee went through significant trauma in the last six months of Doris’s life. This included
being assaulted by her mother in the incident described in paragraph 2.10-2.12 .and partially
witnessing her death, which has resulted in her experiencing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD).
12.3 Sam
Sam is a very tactile, endearing child. He can struggle to communicate with other children and
although he may have some learning difficulties, the situation was not able to be fully addressed
before he moved school and therefore it is not known if this has been formally diagnosed. Sam
also suffered significant trauma leading up to the death of Doris and began to regularly soil
himself and become ‘clingy’ with staff.
12.4 Peter
Peter appears to have had a strict upbringing which involved physical punishment from his
parents. He did not have many friends, only colleagues who he worked with and did not socialise
like Doris. Peter loved the family, especially Lee, and was seen as charming by others.
However, family members felt he was very controlling and became manipulative.
13.0 THE FACTS
The below information has been drawn from a range of sources; the IMRs submitted by
agencies (referenced where appropriate), the findings of the Fact-Finding Report of the Family
Court judge, and interviews from friends and colleagues.
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KPE TWO: BULLYING AND COERCION OF DORIS BY PETER and GROOMING OF THE
CHILDREN AND PROFESSIONALS
13.1 In late 2014 and into 2015, Doris disclosed to her family and work colleagues that she was
experiencing controlling and undermining behaviour from Peter. Doris had been seen with a
black eye by her family and she had indicated that she had been raped by Peter. A close friend
and colleague disclosed that Doris stated that Peter would stand right in front of her face and
poke her with his fingers, sometimes so hard he would knock her backwards. Family and work
colleagues highlighted that they heard Peter making comments to Doris about her weight,
ridiculing the way she looked, and how she had let herself go. He made sexually suggestive
comments to Doris’s sister.
Doris stated she was scared to leave Peter as he harmed himself whenever she mentioned it.
He was particularly fixated with trying to find out who her new partner was and head butted the
wall when unable to. (Source: Police IMR). There were multiple occasions when he accessed
her phone, was verbally abusive, and stated he had tried to commit suicide by taking an
overdose of co-codamol. (Source: SaBPT IMR). Although there is no record in the medical
notes, her GP recalls her saying she had put up with her husband’s emotional abuse for years
and had had enough. (Source: GP IMR).
KPE THREE: SEPARATION / BREAKDOWN OF THE FAMILY
UNTIL LATE 2015
13.2 In 2015 Doris and Peter’s relationship began to deteriorate rapidly. After her work’s
Christmas party, Doris shared a taxi home with a male colleague John, who was also having
some marital issues. From this encounter a relationship started.
13.3 Peter found a Christmas card to Doris from John when he was searching her handbag.
Doris and Peter argued, with Doris admitting she had begun a relationship with another man.
Whilst she was asleep, Peter accessed her unlocked phone, and read the text exchanges
between Doris and John. Peter texted John several times and left answerphone messages on
Christmas Eve which John eventually replied to saying Peter should talk to Doris rather than
him.
13.4 This was a difficult time for Doris and Peter although evidence suggests that Peter thought
they would be able to work through their difficulties. Early in January 2016 Doris said she wanted
them to separate. Peter struggled to accept this. Peter and Doris needed to share a home for
financial reasons as Doris provided the regular, larger salary and was “the breadwinner”. Doris
stated they should have separate bedrooms, and Peter moved into the room in the loft. The
house had been under renovation for over five years. Over the following weeks Doris and Peter
secured a further loan to complete the house renovation with the plan to then sell the property,
split the proceeds equally and each find their own accommodation.
13.5 Evidence presented to the Family Court by Peter describes Doris’s behaviour changing
from late December 2015. Peter stated that Doris was becoming verbally and physically abusive
towards him and the children, and that the difficulties they experienced were largely attributable
to Doris’s behaviour. Reports from family, friends and colleagues presented a different picture;</div><div><br /></div><div>Peter was devastated by the breakdown of the relationship and behaved in a controlling and
manipulative way towards his wife, either to try and keep Doris in their relationship and / or to
lay the ground for the children remaining in his care.
KPE FOUR: WELLBEING OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN
JANUARY 2016 onwards
13.6 In the early part of 2016 the situation in the home became increasingly difficult. Peter did
not want the marriage to end, there were arguments when he would threaten to take his own life
and self-harm. On one occasion Peter head butted the wall in the family home. On another
occasion Peter said he was going to drive his motorbike into a wall but then returned shortly
afterwards unharmed. Evidence from the Family Court describes how Peter had told Lee he
was going to kill himself and that he showed her his self- harm marks.
13.7 Doris spoke to her sister about her concerns for Peter, including her fear that she was going
to return home to find Peter had seriously harmed himself. Her sister informed the Police, and
Doris subsequently attended the Police station in late January 2016. Police records of the
meeting show that Doris did not consider Peter to be a danger to her or the children, but mainly
a danger to himself, detailing the threats Peter had made to kill himself. She said he was not
physically abusive to her but could be verbally abusive and she outlined her concerns about the
knives in the home.
The Police completed a DASH Risk assessment7 with Doris. In her responses Doris stated that
she was very frightened when Peter “goes off on one”. She described how Peter was very
jealous - he liked to check up on her and read her personal texts. He admitted that he had
stalked her when they started dating 21 years ago (when Doris was around 15-16 years old).
Doris also stated that Peter owned knives as he was a carpenter and he had some ceremonial
swords. Her 10 positive responses were assessed as ‘Standard Risk’ (meaning current
evidence does not indicate likelihood of causing serious harm). Doris was signposted to
ESDAS8 outreach support and given relevant literature at that time but she declined a referral
to the service. The advice was for Doris to call 999 if Peter became violent or aggressive towards
her or the children.
Safeguarding Referrals (39/24s) were also completed for the children and for Peter and
submitted to the MASH9
for dissemination to appropriate agencies. Both referrals were RAG10
rated as Amber.
The referrals for Peter highlighted concern for his mental health and self-harming and also
around the children witnessing the verbal altercations between Doris and Peter. (Source: Surrey
Police IMR).
The family was first referred to Adult Social Services in late January 2016 following Doris’s visit
to the Police about Peter’s emotional wellbeing. The Duty Service Manager evaluated the PoliceSafeguarding referral form and Doris was contacted to offer details about family support services
available, including ESDAS. Doris said she was aware of such services and also said Peter had
seen his GP. The Duty manager made the decision that no further action was needed. (Source:
Surrey Children’s Services IMR)
13.8 The Surrey and Borders Partnership Trust (SABPT) Community Mental Health Recovery
Service (CMHRS) received the safeguarding referral for Peter following Doris’s visit to the
Police. It was reviewed by a Rapid Access Worker (RAW) and there were not felt to be any
safeguarding concerns and no secondary mental health issues. The RAW wrote to the GP on
28 January 2016 enclosing the referral form and asked for Peter to be assessed and signposted
as appropriate. (Source: SABT IMR)
The GP contacted Peter to arrange an appointment and he attended on 3 February 2016. Peter
said that Doris had announced she was divorcing him and that she was his best friend. He was
finding it hard to cope and self-harmed by head butting the wall and had suicidal thoughts, but
“the kids were his protective factor”. The GP noted that Peter was very anxious, his nails were
bitten and he had a fine tremor.
The GP prescribed antidepressants gave him contact details for CRISIS Mental Health Support
(now Crisis Overnight Support Service)11 and details of the First Steps Mental Health Support
Programme (currently under review due to budget constraints). On the second visit the GP
noted that Peter was calmer and his main concern was that the children could be taken away.
Peter was phoned the following week by the GP to check on his progress. Peter stated that he
was getting on much better, had gone back to work and was not keen to access talking therapies
at this stage. (Source GP IMR)
13.9 Doris was continuing to disclose to her work colleagues and family the difficulties in her
relationship with Peter. Doris told them that Peter was coercive and controlling. Peter alleged
that Doris was angry, argumentative and, on occasions, physically abusive towards him and
Lee. On one occasion John (Doris’s new partner) described overhearing a lot of shouting
between Doris and Peter during a phone call.
13.10 In January 2016 Peter contacted John’s wife, initially making contact under a false name,
as his first attempt through his own Facebook account had been blocked. Peter and John’s wife
met in a car park; it was unclear whether he revealed his real identity to her or used the false
name. She described her concerns about Peter’s threats to harm himself and John and about
his behaviour generally. She said that Peter told her that he had been looking at Doris’s phone
and began to cry. He asked if she was still having sex with her husband and if not whether he
(Peter) could get her pregnant. (Source: Trial and Family Court statements).
Soon after this meeting John’s wife became ill and had to be admitted to hospital.
13.11 Doris continued to confide with close friends at work about Peter’s behaviour, describing
how he would goad and provoke her, knowing, as she described ‘which buttons to press’.
13.12 Doris had very little personal space in the family home. There are descriptions of Peter
coming into her bedroom in the early morning with a torch, looking for things, of Peter always being around her. Doris’s mother stated that the situation became intolerable for Doris. Peter
would goad her and one night it became too much for Doris. She called her mother in such a
state that she drove to her house and collected her. Doris also told her a friend that she ‘flipped’
on 1 March 2016 during a row with Peter and she pummelled him with her fists.
13.13 In March 2016, Doris visited her GP and was very depressed and tearful. She was
diagnosed with Mild Mixed Anxiety and Depressive Disorder. She stated she wanted a divorce
but Peter did not and she felt angry and frustrated. Doris said she had left home to stay with her
mother and that Lee and Sam were with Peter. She had no concerns about the children’s
welfare at that time. A small supply of sleeping tablets and antidepressants were given to Doris.
From then onwards until her death, Doris was seen by a GP six times. (Source: GP IMR and
SaBPT IMR).
13.14 Doris reported to a work colleague that she and Peter had argued in front of the children
and that Peter prodded and pushed her and shouted in her face. He said to Lee that ‘Mummy
doesn’t love me anymore and that she has a new boyfriend’. In the Family Court Peter describes
an incident in March 2016 when Lee intervened in an argument between them, during which he
said that Doris had grabbed Lee by the neck removing her from the room and slapped her face.
Peter described taking a photo of Lee’s face, to ‘show Lee’ as there wasn’t a mirror in the sitting
room. He informed the Police about the photo when they attended the home in early April 2016
and gave a copy of the photo to the officers.
13.15 Around this time Doris, without prior notice to Peter, took the children, with some of their
belongings including passports, to stay with her mother so she could have quality time with the
children.
Peter was reducing the time Doris spent with the children by phoning and keeping her talking.
Peter was very distressed on discovering the children had been taken without being told. They
returned about a week later. Doris stated she wanted a shared care arrangement, with the
children remaining in the family home, and with the parents alternating care. Peter would not
agree to this because he had nowhere else to go; his father was ill in hospital and he did not
want to place additional pressure on his mother. Doris wanted this arrangement to allow her to
re-engage with the children stating “I need time alone with them.” However, the arrangements
resulted in Doris remaining at her mother’s, getting up early and going to the family home for
about 5.30am to enable Peter to go to work. She would then get the children up and take them
to nursery and school before she went to work herself.
KPE FIVE: CHANGES IN THE CHILDREN’S BEHAVIOUR MARCH 2016
13.16 In February 2016 Lee’s school became concerned about incidents she mentioned
happening at home and the adult way she was phrasing them. Peter told the Class Teacher in
February, in front of Lee, that things were bad at home and there was physical and verbal
aggression between him and Doris. The class teacher heard Peter say to Lee ‘remember not
to tell Doris you have seen me, keep it a secret’. This, and the adult language Lee used, raised
concerns that Peter was grooming the children to present his point of view to others.</div><div><br /></div><div>13.17 The Class Teacher advised the Head Teacher of the Junior School about Peter’s visit,
who reinforced to Peter that parental meetings should only be by appointment and that Peter
was not to seek to meet in this ad hoc way. The concern was raised that Peter was attempting
to ‘groom’ the staff to see his point of view rather than Doris’s.
13.18 The Class Teacher disclosed that Lee would mention issues at home in a very adult way
e.g. ‘Doris is never around and always with John. ‘Doris is being vicious’. ‘Daddy is always
supporting us’. Having known Lee for a year, the Class Teacher considered her language to be
very adult-like in nature and not age appropriate. She felt it replicated Peter’s conversation with
her e.g. Lee referred to Doris as ‘now getting physical’. This reinforced concerns that Peter was
manipulating the children to present his own views
13.19 Peter went to see the Class Teacher again in early March 2016, reporting that ‘Doris had
walked out the night before and taken Lee and Sam with her’. Peter asked her not to share this
with any other agency, which she explained was not possible. The Class Teacher said Lee
returned to school the next day.
13.20 During this time, the school decided to introduce a ‘Worry Book’ to support Lee, in which
she could write anything that concerned her. This would be confidential to her and the
information would only be shared if the school had worries about her safety. The Class Teacher
was concerned when Lee revealed that Peter had said that she was ‘not to tell the teachers
everything in her book’. On another occasion she stated that ‘Daddy said I am allowed to tell
you now’. The Class Teacher noted there was some discrepancy between what Lee was writing
in her book and what she actually described to the Class Teacher had taken place e.g. in the
book she described ‘punches and kicks by Doris’, but verbally she said ‘it was a slap’.
Worry Book entries:
▪ Mum came home, hurt dad, nearly crashed (car) with me in it.
▪ Name calling, punching arms, slapping chest and kicking legs.
▪ Mum called me a little bitch, fucking bitch and punched me on my chest.
▪ Dad has been really nice to me and (my brother). Mum’s got a new boyfriend.
▪ Mum has told me Dad’s horrible and Mum is really nice, her boyfriend’s name is John
▪ I am worried that Dad needs to move out.
▪ Mum is going to be mean to me. John has teared our family apart (sic)
▪ I am having nightmares about my Mum killing me.
▪ Wherever I go I don’t feel safe” (Source: School IMR)
13.21 The Head Teacher spoke to Peter about the correct procedures for speaking to staff
through appointments, which he accepted. The Head Teacher stated that Doris had also spoken
to her to say she had left the family home, the difficulties with Lee and that she had a new
partner. The Head Teacher described Lee as being very vocal about Doris in ‘adult-like’
language and in her view that Lee was an emotional crutch for Peter. Lee said things like ‘John
has ruined our lives’ and, on another occasion, ‘Doris had broken her marriage promise to her
Daddy’.
13.22 A second referral to SCS was received from Lee’s School on 21 March 2016 regarding
the comments in the Worry Book where she wrote that her Mother had called her names,
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punched her on the cheek and arm and had kicked her feet. The Head Teacher stated her
concerns to Doris who admitted she had smacked Lee and pushed her on the shoulder. Doris
explained that she had moved out and accepted she got cross with Peter and understood why
the referral had been made. The Head Teacher spoke separately to Peter who said that Doris
had slapped Lee on the face. However, he was also content with the referral. Both Doris and
Peter were given an individual opportunity to discuss issues with the school; the school wanted
to support the family as a good relationship had been established throughout Lee’s school life.
There were concerns that Peter was trying to keep Lee on his side by asking her to keep secrets.
He was also felt to be trying to manipulate, intimidate and coerce professionals by repeatedly
requesting to meet without appointments and was not following school policy. At the subsequent
meeting with Peter, he stated that he was unaware of the school policy as Doris had mainly dealt
with school matters (Source: Meeting with Peter).
A social worker attended the school on 18 March 2016 to interview Lee following the disclosures
in her Worry Book. There was no contact from the social worker after this meeting and no details
of what would happen next. (Source: School IMR). A social worker was allocated on 22 March
2016 to carry out a Child and Family Assessment (CFA)12 as it was felt that the criteria for a
Section 4713 referral had not been met at this stage as the parents had now separated.
The oversight remit stated;
• The CFA should explore the incident and determine how the parents will ensure that Lee
and Sam’s needs and wellbeing are prioritised whilst going through the separation.
• Speak with Lee regarding the disclosure and explore her feelings
• Consider support available to the children (emotional)
• Speak to Doris and Peter regarding the concerns and how they will keep the children safe
and explore if they are exposing their children to risk.
Before the children could be seen, a further referral was received from Surrey Police on 8
th
April 2016 relating to the 999 call from Lee about being assaulted by her mother. See KPE
6 below. (Source: Surrey Children’s Service IMR)
13.23 The Nursery also noticed a regression in Sam’s behaviour around soiling himself and
needing to be comforted. Staff were not fully aware of the breakdown of the family relationship
until a neighbour arrived to pick up Sam. (Source Nursery IMR).
13.24 In late March 2016, Doris and the children went on holiday to the Isle of Wight with Doris’s
family. Doris was clear that her relationship with Peter was over. Doris’s family were concerned
about her behaviour and the pressure she seemed to be under and her relationship with Lee
was described as “being fragile”.
13.25 Peter had joined a dating website in January 2016 and met his new girlfriend. Peter told
the Police he had asked Lee whether he should date her or not and started seeing her regularly from March 2016. The new relationship did not seem to result in any noticeable change in
Peter’s behaviour towards Doris.
KPE SIX: ASSAULT OF LEE and PETER BY DORIS APRIL 2016
13.26 On 8 April 2016 Doris attended the family home in order to get the children up and ready
for school. Lee would not get out of bed, which resulted in Doris physically dragging her out of
bed onto the floor and smacking her. Doris disclosed further details to a social worker later in
April where she explained how she had tried to get Lee out of bed and then lifted her out when
she refused. Lee started hitting her and Doris held her down saying such behaviour was
inappropriate.
As a result, Lee rang Police alleging that Doris had assaulted her. The Police attended the
family home. Doris accepted she had smacked Lee and was arrested and cautioned. In her
Police interview Doris also accepted there had been lots of arguments in the home and she had
been physically abusive towards Peter in the past, for which she was also Cautioned.
A DASH form was completed with Peter following the incident leading to thirteen positive
responses and a Medium Risk evaluation. This was reassessed afterwards to Standard Risk
as “current evidence does not indicate likelihood of causing serious harm”
Doris detailed her concerns that Peter may be influencing the children, in particular Lee. She
stated that Lee was saying things like ‘You are not my mother, Doris. You need to dump your
new boyfriend and come home’. She told the Police in relation to Peter ‘I just asked him to leave
me alone and he wouldn’t. He kept coming up and coming up and I said leave me alone, just
leave me alone and I had Lee there as well, standing there with her hands on her hips looking
at me saying ‘You just need to come back and love us and ditch your boyfriend’. ’Stop being
horrible to Daddy. He then got his mother on the phone so I had him and his mother going off
and yelling at me.’
Safeguarding referrals, assessed as Amber, were submitted for the children regarding risk of
physical harm and witnessing domestic abuse between their parents. A referral for Peter was
submitted for the non–recent disclosures of domestic violence from Doris, and for Doris
regarding concerns her mental health and anger issues. These were shared with SCS and
Health via the MASH.
On receiving the report, Children and Family Health Service (CFHS) liaised with the school
regarding a welfare update on 13 April 2016. The school also contacted the School Nurse and
said there were concerns for the family and that this had been formally reported to SCS.
(Source: CFHS IMR). The school nurse briefed that Lee was subject to a Child In Need (CIN)
assessment and that Lee’s school had commenced counselling for her, along with a Worry Book
for Lee to add entries when she felt it would help.
It was also recorded that if the children had witnessed or heard any domestic incidents this
should be covered in their ABE interviews14
. (Source Surrey Police IMR)SCS convened a telephone Strategy Discussion with the Police and it was agreed that a Joint
Section 47 enquiry should be undertaken. The actions agreed were;
• Police and SCS to undertake a home visit immediately to see those involved. Purpose: To
gather the wishes and feelings of the children around the incident and their relationship with
their parents including what they wanted to happen regarding contact with their mother.
• To see if Lee needs a Child Protection Medical15 for any possible injuries received.
• SCS to speak to Peter about the care and contact of the children from himself and Doris.
What are the risks?
• Explore with Peter his mood and emotional wellbeing.
• Explore with Peter the support for the children via extended family and friends
During the s47 visit, Peter disclosed that Lee had told him that her grandmother had smacked
her while they were on holiday when she wouldn’t eat her porridge. Sam also told him that
Mummy hit him because he had ‘poo’d his pants’. (Source: Surrey Children’s Service IMR)
The nursery was unaware Doris had been arrested until they spoke to Peter when he arrived to
collect Sam on 27 April 2016. The Nursery Manager contacted SCS to request information
relating to Sam and that the nursery should be included in the CIN assessment. (Source: Nursery
IMR) The Outcome is unknown.
It was agreed that the Child and Family Assessment would still be completed and a meeting
arranged with parents and other professionals to share worries. The plan would ensure that the
children were supported and not exposed to negative adult behaviours which would impact on
their emotional wellbeing. The children’s School and Nursery were both spoken to and stated
that whilst Peter may be the victim of domestic abuse, they believed he was grooming the
children to be negative about their Mother. It was agreed this would be considered at the
planned Professionals meeting.
(This meeting had not taken place by 2nd June 2016 when Doris died. (Source: SCS IMR).
The assessment was completed following Doris’s death and it concluded that if Doris had lived
a CIN plan would have been put into place to support the children. (Source; SCS IMR)
KPE SEVEN: CHILD ARRANGEMENTS / COERCION and CONTROL OF THE CHILDREN
8 APRIL ONWARDS 2016
13.27 Following the police involvement in Lee’s assault, a social worker was allocated and
undertook the s47 investigation as detailed above. The social worker met Peter on 8 April 2016
where he described the difficulties in the parents’ relationship since December 2015 which he
blamed on the changes in Doris, who he described having turned into ‘an angry person’.
On completion of the safeguarding enquiries, it was agreed that Doris and her mother would not
have unsupervised contact with the children until further notice and that Peter would make
alternative child care arrangements. Peter stated he requested support from the social worker
to find an approved childminder but was advised ‘this was not their remit’. He was not referred to the Surrey Family Information Service16 where he could have easily found this information
and instead looked on the internet. (Source: Meeting with Peter).
The verbal agreement was eventually confirmed with a written agreement on 15 April 2016.
Until then, Doris had no independent understanding of the conditions under which she could see
her children. Doris was requested to provide names and details of anyone she proposed to be
present during her supervised contact.
The social worker did not consider that Doris’s mother posed any risk to Lee and in discussion
with her manager agreed that she could have unsupervised contact with the children. This was
not communicated to Doris’s mother until late May 2016, despite her chasing the local authority
about the situation. As a result there were a number of weeks when the children did not see
their mother or maternal grandmother who had previously played such a large part in their lives.
The social worker saw Doris again six weeks later on 31 May 2016. There was no active social
work involvement with the Doris and Doris’s mother between 20 April 2016 and 31 May 2016.
By then, Peter had instigated an arrangement whereby Doris came to the family home on two
evenings a week, Tuesday and Thursdays, to see the children and put them to bed. This meant
that Doris had no access to the children without Peter being present.
13.28 The social worker attended Lee’s school and met with her and the relevant staff on 19
April 2016. Lee described what happened on 8 April 2016 and stated she didn’t want contact
with her mother and grandmother as they ganged up on her and bullied her. Notes from the
social worker’s records states that she felt some of what Lee described had been influenced by
what she had overheard, or by Peter having inappropriate conversations with her about Doris.
13.29 On 20 April 2016 the social worker saw Doris and her mother. The social worker
described Doris as remorseful and tearful; she explained how she had tried to get Lee out of
bed, she then lifted her out when she refused. Doris described her fears about Peter’s influence
on the children, particularly Lee, and that she did not want to have contact with the children
whilst Peter was present.
13.30 Information provided by family, friends and John seemed to show that Doris and Peter
were communicating better.
13.31 Following the incident on 8 April 2016, a neighbour assisted Peter with child care and then
a childminder was employed from 17 April 2016 to look after the children in the morning and
take them to and from school or nursery. A neighbour supervised a contact visit between Doris
and the children on 13 April 2016 although Lee refused to see her mother.
13.32 Doris was seen by her GP on 18 April 2016 and he noted her mood had dipped. Her
antidepressant dose was increased and she was advised to self-refer to Mind Matters which she
did on 30 April 2016. The GP recalled that Doris had stated that that “she had put up with her
husband’s emotional abuse for years and had had enough”. Doris said he was manipulating the
children and telling them what to do. At a follow up visit to the GP on 25 April 2016 her main concern was that Lee was still refusing
to see her. Doris’s mood was stable, but she had developed bruising on her hand which could
be a side effect of the antidepressant and therefore the tablets were changed.
(Source: GP IMR).
13.33 On 6 May 2016 Lee had an appointment with the GP. She reported increasing
nightmares, worried that Doris would try to harm her after she called the Police. Information was
given to Peter about a private counsellor for Lee as there was a long wait for CAHMS.
13.34 Early May 2016, Doris’s mother started seeing the children again and was permitted to
supervise Doris’s contact. Peter told the social work team manager on 6 May 2016 that he did
not agree with this as he stated ‘there is a history of Doris and her mother ganging up on the
children but that if this was our advice, then he knew who to sue if he sent the children for contact
and something went wrong’.
13.35 On 9 May 2016 Doris attended a therapy session; the notes record her concern that her
anger and frustration will return. Through Mind Matters, Doris was offered telephone based
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) guided support to help her with her low mood and anxiety.
The Therapist completed the first of two telephone sessions with Doris on the 20 May 2016 and
felt she engaged well. Doris mentioned having occasional thoughts of wanting to end her life
but these had stopped by the second session. Doris mentioned that she had hit her daughter
and that she was frustrated with Peter still trying to maintain their relationship. She found Peter
controlling and that she would have violent outbursts and slap and punch him through frustration.
Doris explained she had moved on and had started a new relationship and that she wanted to
work on her depression and anxiety around the children (Source: SABPT IMR).
13.36 Doris’s last visit to her GP was on 11 May 2016. Doris stated that things were difficult at
home, Lee was still refusing to see her and that she herself was due to start counselling sessions
the following week. In his statement to the Police the GP describes Doris reporting her concerns
about Peter being manipulative and controlling over the children. (Source: GP IMR).
13.37 Doris met with her Line Manager and Head of HR on 18 May 2016 and explained about
her Police Caution (8 April 2016) and that she had been referred by the Police for anger
management counselling on a Friday. Doris’s employer supported her by allowing her to work
from home on a Friday so she could attend her counselling, reduced her workload and offered
her the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) provided by a private company. Up to 8
sessions of telephone counselling could be provided to employees and their families free of
charge. Doris confirmed with the Head of HR that she had contacted the service on 20 May and
was finding it useful. (Source: Employer IMR, EAP feedback).
Doris explained her current issues to her EAP counsellor and that she wanted to control her
anger, work through her depression and to see the children and that she had started CBT.
Strategies and goals were discussed with the counsellor. She said she wanted to focus on her
anger management. It was agreed to arrange a further session. Doris died soon after this
contact. (Source: EAP IMR)13.38 On 17 May 2016 a neighbour witnessed an argument between the parents outside the
home. He described Doris as shouting, being forceful and not wanting to speak to Peter, wanting
him to go back inside.
13.39 On 24 May 2016 the Nursery expressed concerns for Sam, reporting to SCS that he was
soiling himself daily and was always seeking love and nurturing from an adult. The nursery
reiterated their view that his father was encouraging Sam to be negative about his mother.
(Source: SCS IMR).
13.40 Doris attended her second therapy session on 27 May 2016; she reported that Lee
challenged her about not being present at Peter’s father’s funeral, when Peter had been there
for her when her father died. Doris had offered to go to the funeral to look after the children but
it appears she was told by Peter “she was not needed”. Doris accepted she needed to control
triggers that made her upset, which included her not being able to see her children.
13.41 Doris spent the Bank Holiday weekend with John. Peter contacted Doris by text over that
weekend asking her to accompany him and the children to the park. Doris responded that she
was unable to come at such short notice.
13.42 Doris had what transpired to be her last meeting with her social worker on 31 May 2016.
The Social Worker noted that:
• Doris reported that she and Peter were communicating better
• Doris reported that Lee was having outbursts with everybody including Peter whereas
previously these were aimed just at her
• Peter had informed Doris that he had taken Lee to the GP as she was having repeated
nightmares about her mother killing her and wanted to arrange counselling for her. Peter said
he was told there was no child psychologist available at that time. (Source: SCS IMR.)
• That evening Doris was very distressed; she said to John that she thought that Peter was
stalking her, as he had found out she was staying with him at his address, which she had only
disclosed to her mother and sister. On Doris’s return to John’s flat she packed her belongings
and left but was eventually persuaded to return.
13.43 Around this time in May / June 2016 Peter had texted and phoned a work colleague
asking ‘how much would it cost to give someone a slap’ .(Source : Police IMR)
13.44 On 1 June Doris had lunch with her mother and Sam. Doris’s mother described her as
being ‘tired and angry and she hurt because she told me that Peter has punched her the night
before and that the bruises were just coming out’. In his Police interview after Doris’s death,
Peter accepted that previously he had shoved Doris, but he stated it was only after she had hit
him on his arm or shoulder. Doris had told friends that Peter had been abusive and hit her
causing bruising to her breasts. Bruising was later found on Doris’s body during the post
mortem.
13.45 John describes the evening of 1 June as being normal; Doris and he stayed in and Doris
rang the children to say goodnight, although it was difficult to get Lee to speak to her.KPE EIGHT: DEATH OF PARENT / IMPACT ON CHILDREN and AGENCIES
2 JUNE 2016
13.46 On 2 June 2016, the children went out with Doris’s mother for the day. Doris attended
the family home that evening, in accordance with the child contact agreement, to help put Sam
to bed. Her mother described Doris already waiting in the car outside until she arrived with the
children as she had agreed with her she would not go into the home alone.
13.47 Doris’s mother described Peter as being agitated, like a ‘cat on a hot tin roof’. Doris
complained of a bad back and was having difficulty in moving. The children were excitedly
showing Doris and Peter what they had bought during their trip that day. When Doris’s mother
left at about 6.30 pm, she thought Doris was following her out of the house.
13.48 Peter took Sam upstairs to bed at about 6.45 pm. Doris went to get him ready for bed
and read him a story. Doris was ready to leave but Peter wanted to discuss why she had not
agreed to meet him and the children the previous weekend. They went into the kitchen and the
fatal incident took place resulting in Doris’s tragic death
(see section 2.0 Incident One).
13.49. Lee was taken to the hospital by ambulance accompanied by the Police and Helicopter
Emergency Service (HEMS), Lee, Sam and Peter. Lee presented with a two inch laceration to
her forearm. Lee was treated and moved to the Children’s ward, as a safe place and the children
were placed under Police protection. The hospital made contact with SCS, who took emergency
action to protect the children. An Interim Care Order was made on 3 June 2016 and the children
were then moved to a foster placement.
13.50 On 3 June 2016, whilst still at the hospital, Sam showed the Play Specialist his teddy and
said “Mummy hit daddy and Lee last night” and then began to play. He then began to scribble
across the paper he was drawing on and said this was blood, and dotted the paper hard and
fast saying “punch punch punch punch” and “this is mummy punch daddy face”. Sam then drew
lines and said “this is mummy lying down”.
13.51 Peter’s injuries were assessed on admission; he had a large knife wound to his right
shoulder blade and lacerations to the back of his head and left hand. These were cleaned and
sutured and he was deemed fit for discharge.
(Source: Surrey and Sussex Health Care Trust (SASH) IMR)
Peter was arrested later that night and held in custody. Following interview, he was charged
with murder on 5 June 2016 and released on bail on 7 June 2016, with conditions that he
resided at his mother’s home.
13.52 On 4 June 2016 when Doris did not turn up for work and did not answer her phone, her
employer’s lone working policy was implemented. A senior officer called Doris’s next of kin and
Doris’s sister informed the employer of her death. (Source: Employer IMR).
13.53 Lee’s ABE17 video interview took place on 6 June 2016.Care of the Children
13.54 Children’s Services carried out the Child and Family Assessment within the agreed
timescales, although the assessment was actually completed and signed off after Doris’s death,
dated 9 June 2016, as acknowledged by the Manager in the Assessment. The assessment
concludes ‘the children have been, and continue to be, exposed to their parents’ acrimonious
relationship. The children have been exposed to domestic violence and Peter has discussed
his feelings about the separation with Lee which is inappropriate. I am of the view that Peter has
not come to terms with the [end of the relationship] and believes the marriage can be reconciled
although Doris is clear the marriage is over’.
The report recommended a Child in Need (CIN) Plan to ensure the children’s safety and that the
parents continue to engage with the agencies so the risk of harm is reduced.
13.55 The children remained with their first foster carers until October 2016. They were then
moved to their final carers, due to allegations made by the children about how they had been
treated during their first placement. Sam said he was hurt when his teeth were brushed too hard
amongst other allegations. Some of those allegations have since been substantiated and are
being investigated.
13.56 Peter had his first supervised contact with the children in early June 2016 and thereafter
his contact continued twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Doris’s mother and her
family had weekly contact, more recently becoming fortnightly with one-off contacts with the
maternal uncle and his family.
Peter’s arrest and trial
13.57 Peter’s urine was tested on arrest on 3 June 2016 and tested positive for cocaine. Some
cocaine was also found in the home which Peter accepted was his. The levels were felt to have
been insufficient to have influenced his behaviour. On 3 June 2016 a face to face mental health
assessment of Peter was carried out in a Police custody suite. He was described as being
polite, dishevelled and in shock. Peter demonstrated he understood the reason for his arrest
but his main concern was the welfare of the children. Peter did disclose that he had had
problems / suicidal thoughts / impulsive behaviour when he found out about Doris’s affair. Peter
was not assessed for drug or alcohol use support whilst in custody. (Source: SABPT IMR).
13.58 Peter’s first criminal trial commenced in December 2016. This had to be abandoned
following a revised account of events given by Peter.
13.59 Peter’s second criminal trial commenced in May 2017. He pleaded not guilty, saying
Doris’s killing was in self-defence. He was acquitted by the jury of murder after 5 days
deliberation in late May 2017.
14 ENGAGEMENT WITH OTHER AGENCIES AND IMR FEEDBACK
This section has been compiled from the Individual Management Reviews (IMRs) submitted by
the agencies involved in this case. The IMRs aimed to provide an accurate account of an
agency’s involvement with Doris, Peter, Lee and Sam up until the date of Doris’s death, evaluate their actions and identify improvements for the future. All IMRs have been challenged robustly
by the panel and, where appropriate, have been subject to review and revision.
Some IMR comments have been included under the relevant KPE in the main body of the report,
to provide a clearer, chronological overview. Where this is the case, the IMR source is clearly
referenced.
14.1 SURREY POLICE IMR
14.1.1 LESSONS IDENTIFIED - Surrey Police
The investigation into KPE Four (Lee’s assault and historic domestic abuse on Peter by Doris)
and KPE Six (Doris’s death) has been the subject of intense internal scrutiny by the Police, as
below
• Public Protection Standard Team Review (PPST) 20 June 2016
and Death or Serious Injury Investigation Report (DSI) - October 2016
i. The PPST review reported that the initial Police responses to KPE Four were good. The
Police acted positively arresting Doris on suspicion of assaulting Lee. The investigation
supervisor had set a clear investigation strategy and an action plan that covered the main
requirements of the case including working with SCS. The action plan included that Lee
would be ABE interviewed and that her Worry Book should be seized and examined.
ii. The PPST reviewer felt thereafter things became confused. The referral made by Lee’s
school noted within the Worry Book that Doris had carried out another assault. Peter had
presented his photograph of an injury sustained by Lee in another assault by Doris. There
were no recordings or investigations of these previous assaults or any consideration that Lee
and Peter were repeat victims.
iii. The PPST review found that the decision to caution Doris did not take into consideration the
previous assaults nor was there any investigation into the previous incidents. The PPST
reviewer felt the rationale for Cautioning was focused on the assault on Peter (Caution was
for a domestic assault) and made no reference to the rationale for cautioning for a child
assault.
iv. On reviewing the Police interaction with SCS, the PPST noted that a joint action plan had
been agreed at the Strategy Meeting on 8 April 2016. However apart from the joint s47 visit
taking place, no action was taken in respect of Lee undergoing a Child Protection medical nor
were the children spoken to about their feelings and wishes regarding future contact with
Doris. Lee was not ABE interviewed after the initial assault in April 2016, as it was decided
against and she was therefore not given the opportunity to talk about the incident nor the
disclosures recorded within her Worry Book.
v. The PPST reviewer stated that if the case had been fully investigated, it was likely to have
met the evidential threshold for a charging decision against Doris. The review highlighted
that the CPS guidance on domestic abuse states that it would be rarely appropriate to issue
a simple caution in a domestic incident unless a victim did not want to support a prosecution
and the available evidence would only support a minor charge. (There were no records to
show whether there had been a conversation with Peter or Lee to discuss the option).vi. The DSI report agreed with the findings of the PPST. It felt that an early decision to issue
Doris with a caution for Common Assault had prevented the investigation from proceeding to
a stage of completeness, whereby all the evidence could have been included and assessed.
It also noted that a full investigation would have included an ABE interview with Lee, a
statement from Lee’s teacher and a review of the Worry Book.
vii. The DSI report stated that if a full investigation had taken place, there would have been
sufficient evidence to charge Doris with a number of assaults and that the Crown Prosecution
Service (CPS) was the appropriate authority to make the decision re best public interest. It
also commented that this decision was made without a full risk assessment and that all
safeguarding options had not been fully explored. In the opinion of the DSI author, the
decision to caution Doris prevented pre or post charge bail conditions which would have
helped manage the situation from potentially escalating.
viii. The IMR author highlighted that as Peter provided thirteen positive responses to the DASH
questions, the risk to him was a Medium Risk. On examining the DASH itself, it was actually
graded Standard Risk. It was unclear who made the changes; there was no formal record of
this decision and there was no record as to whether Peter was offered referral to Outreach
Services.
ix. The IMR also highlighted that KPE Four and Six were seen as two separate incidents and
that initial risk grading was changed without having assessed all information. Learning has
also been identified in relation to Police officers being more aware of coercive control and
how perpetrators of CCB18 may groom professionals.
14.1.2 POLICE RECOMMENDATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION:
Surrey Police have identified a number of recommendations for changes to internal
procedures and broadening of training, many of which have already been implemented.
These are detailed in the Action Plan.
14.2 SURREY CHILDREN’S SERVICES IMR
14.2.1 LESSONS IDENTIFIED - Surrey Children’s Services (SCS)
i. A DA check list was not completed nor a DASH assessment shared. In a subsequent
discussion with the social workers involved, it appears that there was only a verbal
discussion between the Police and SCS.
ii. The IMR highlights the challenge of eliciting the views of children.
iii. Supervision for the allocated social worker was not evidenced, although Management
Oversight was recorded.
iv. It is important to keep staff supported and aware of the outcomes of DHR learning locally
and nationally so they can be alert to extreme violence.
v. It is important that the voices of young pre-school children are heard and that there is an
opportunity for the child to tell the story in a way appropriate to their age an understanding.14.2.2 SCS RECOMMENDATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION
14.2.1i There is a need to strengthen practice around domestic abuse. Practitioners need to
understand domestic abuse in its different forms, including coercive control, and to be
professionally curious and questioning in their work so they can effectively assess risk.
14.2.1ii Surrey Children’s Services were inspected by OFSTED in October 2014 and again in
February 2018 who judged that services for children in need of help and protection are
inadequate. Since then the Authority has embarked on a programme to fundamentally
transform services, and the critical task within these improvements is to raise the standard
of social work practice.
14.2.1iii A key development within this is the implementation of the Family Safeguarding Model,
under the title of Family Resilience. This is a whole systems approach aiming to improve
the quality of work undertaken with families, and thereby outcomes for children and parents.
The model brings together a partnership including police, health (including mental health),
probation and substance misuse services. This model will be implemented in April 2019
and the teams will be made up of:
• Social workers and family workers who work with parents and children and are the
allocated worker
• Domestic abuse practitioners who work with victims of domestic abuse, and help them
to recognise all forms of abuse and advise them of their options and choices. This will
include raising awareness of the impact of DA on their children and help to safeguard
them
• Domestic abuse perpetrator practitioner who works with perpetrators of domestic
abuse and helps them recognise the impact of their actions and find ways to change their
behaviour, stabilise their relationships and keep their children safe
• Recovery workers who work with adults around their alcohol and / or drug use, to
support them to make positive changes and to help them care for their children
• Mental health practitioners who work with parents who are experiencing mental health
difficulties
• Clinical psychologists who work with parents using cognitive behavioural techniques
(CBT) and dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) as well as looking at their parenting
14.2.1iv Support for practitioners: In developing this model there are significant changes in
structure and it is part of a much broader transformation programme. This will ensure that
practitioners including agency staff have manageable caseloads and receive regular high-quality
supervision. The implementation of this model will significantly strengthen practice in the areas
identified within this review.
It will be supported by a new Quality Assurance framework, and workforce development
programme. This will ensure that the learning from this review, and others locally and nationally,
will be shared with practitioners and managers and this will be the mechanism to implement
service improvements14.3 HEALTH -Surrey Primary Care IMR
14.3.1 LESSONS IDENTIFIED (Primary Care / GPs)
i. The IMR author identified that domestic abuse and coercive control was not considered in this
case. The parental assessment relating to KPE Four focused on mental health issues and
despite the disclosure by Doris of emotional abuse and manipulation by Peter this was viewed
in the context of a marital breakdown.
ii. DA training had been delivered to GPs as part of Level Three Safeguarding Children updates
since 2014 and the IRIS project19 had been funded since 2015 with initial training in July 2015
in ESCCG20 Practices. It appears in this case the emphasis remained on the physical aspects
of DA and not on the risks posed by coercive control. The IMR also highlighted that practitioners
need to be mindful of the high risk of fatal domestic abuse during relationship breakdown.
iii. It should be noted that GPs do not generally receive information regarding Child in Need
conferences, so often do not know when children are subject to a CIN plan. GPs also do not
receive police notifications following a police call out to a domestic abuse incident. The need to
share information effectively remains, as ever, a multi-agency responsibility.
14.3.2 ACTIONS TO BE IMPLEMENTED:
i. Future Level 3 Safeguarding Training and IRIS training will incorporate learning from this DHR
/ SCR. The purpose will be to better support staff working in primary care to identify and support
potential victims of domestic abuse.
ii. Continuation of IRIS in East Surrey post 31st March 2019 and further exploration of roll out across
the rest of Surrey.
14.4 SURREY AND SUSSEX NHS HEALTH CARE TRUST (SASH)
14.4.1 LESSONS IDENTIFIED
i. The IMR highlighted that SASH had tried and tested systems in place for Safeguarding Children
with policies and procedures. These worked well.
ii.One of the main themes apparent from the IMR is how staff felt following the admission of Lee
and Sam.
14.4.2 ACTIONS TO BE IMPLEMENTED
i. Highlighting Domestic Abuse: Although SASH has a policy to ask all pregnant women about
DA, it is not documented whether Doris was asked during her pregnancy. SASH must ensure
that all patients over 16 years old, regardless of pregnancy are given the opportunity to discuss
any concerns relating to DA during visits to SASH and this should be documented.
ii. Training: That the mandatory and statutory Safeguarding Training (which includes DA) for all
staff, is supplemented to ensure all staff are confident to discuss DA and to escalate concerns
when a disclosure is made.
iii. Support for Staff
That following a traumatic event, staff have access to debriefing and clinical supervision.14.3 HEALTH -Surrey Primary Care IMR
14.3.1 LESSONS IDENTIFIED (Primary Care / GPs)
i. The IMR author identified that domestic abuse and coercive control was not considered in this
case. The parental assessment relating to KPE Four focused on mental health issues and
despite the disclosure by Doris of emotional abuse and manipulation by Peter this was viewed
in the context of a marital breakdown.
ii. DA training had been delivered to GPs as part of Level Three Safeguarding Children updates
since 2014 and the IRIS project19 had been funded since 2015 with initial training in July 2015
in ESCCG20 Practices. It appears in this case the emphasis remained on the physical aspects
of DA and not on the risks posed by coercive control. The IMR also highlighted that practitioners
need to be mindful of the high risk of fatal domestic abuse during relationship breakdown.
iii. It should be noted that GPs do not generally receive information regarding Child in Need
conferences, so often do not know when children are subject to a CIN plan. GPs also do not
receive police notifications following a police call out to a domestic abuse incident. The need to
share information effectively remains, as ever, a multi-agency responsibility.
14.3.2 ACTIONS TO BE IMPLEMENTED:
i. Future Level 3 Safeguarding Training and IRIS training will incorporate learning from this DHR
/ SCR. The purpose will be to better support staff working in primary care to identify and support
potential victims of domestic abuse.
ii. Continuation of IRIS in East Surrey post 31st March 2019 and further exploration of roll out across
the rest of Surrey.
14.4 SURREY AND SUSSEX NHS HEALTH CARE TRUST (SASH)
14.4.1 LESSONS IDENTIFIED
i. The IMR highlighted that SASH had tried and tested systems in place for Safeguarding Children
with policies and procedures. These worked well.
ii.One of the main themes apparent from the IMR is how staff felt following the admission of Lee
and Sam.
14.4.2 ACTIONS TO BE IMPLEMENTED
i. Highlighting Domestic Abuse: Although SASH has a policy to ask all pregnant women about
DA, it is not documented whether Doris was asked during her pregnancy. SASH must ensure
that all patients over 16 years old, regardless of pregnancy are given the opportunity to discuss
any concerns relating to DA during visits to SASH and this should be documented.
ii. Training: That the mandatory and statutory Safeguarding Training (which includes DA) for all
staff, is supplemented to ensure all staff are confident to discuss DA and to escalate concerns
when a disclosure is made.
iii. Support for Staff
That following a traumatic event, staff have access to debriefing and clinical supervision.14.8 LEE’S PRIMARY SCHOOL (THE SCHOOL)
14.8.1 LESSONS IDENTIFIED
i. DA was prevalent in this family environment which was not recognised. It was identified that
further information could have been shared with the family as to what support was available.
ii. The senior leadership team required further DA training as part of the safeguarding remit of the
school.
iii. Doris’s killing deeply affected staff, pupils and the community at the school. There was an
opportunity for staff to discuss their concerns with line managers and access to free counselling
was arranged.
14.8.2 ACTIONS TO BE IMPLEMENTED
i. ESDAS provided up to date training for the school Senior Leadership Team and designated
safeguarding officers in July 2017.
ii. Mandatory safeguarding training has been given to all staff to enable them to identify all forms
of abuse towards children and correct procedures to follow when referring children.
iii. The school has employed a full-time safeguarding officer to coordinate all safeguarding and
vulnerable families’ concerns to ensure better outcomes for children and families.
14.9 SAM’S NURSERY
14.9.1 LESSONS IDENTIFIED
Sam did not return to the nursery following Doris’s death. The staff and other families found the
situation very difficult and there was no ‘closure’ after the tragedy.
14.10 DORIS’S EMPLOYER
14.10.1 COMMENTS FROM EMPLOYER
i. Support to existing staff was seen as essential. Doris’s immediate team and close colleagues
were offered the opportunity to go home and bespoke sessions were arranged by the EAP
(Employee Assistance) Company for trauma counselling for those most affected.
ii. The IMR author highlighted that the employer was not aware of all the issues that were
happening in Doris’s life. They were unaware of the new relationship with a fellow member of
her team and the break-up of the relationship with her husband. If it had known more, further
sign posting to various charities and DA outreach could have been made. The employer is an
active promoter of ESDAS and contact details are displayed widely in the building.
iii. Her employer feels that if the Police had been able to advise them of the full nature of KPE Six,
then they would have strongly suggested that Doris take time out from work to support her own
wellbeing.
14.10.1 LESSONS IDENTIFIED
i. Recognition of the importance of the DA Workplace, Lone Working, Safeguarding and Welfare
Policies which are updated every three years, and which worked well in this incident.
ii. The importance of line managers spotting stress and supporting employees in difficult times.iii. Recognition that there are two sides to domestic incidents; all facts need to be considered and
there may be the need to consult an outside agency for a considered view.
14.10.2 ACTIONS TO BE IMPLEMENTED
i. Roll out of new Line-management Training Course which includes identifying stress and
how to sign post to appropriate support.
ii. To work with other agencies if there are issues affecting their staff such as a Caution, (better
sharing of information if appropriate).
14.11 VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND SUPPORT GROUPS
The IMR process was supplemented by the Independent chair interviewing various voluntary
organisations who may have been able to support the family through the relationship break-up
including Relate and ESDAS. The family did not engage with any of these services and therefore
IMRs were not requested.
14.11.1 Mediation Services- East Surrey
The local Relate charity (the largest provider of mediation services) offers a range of services to
residents in Epsom and Ewell, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead and Tandridge with offices in
Reigate and Epsom.
The services offered include: Counselling for couples, individuals, families, young people in
schools and within relationships, sex therapy, and mediation. Like many voluntary organisations
funding is an issue and the main source of funding is from client donations. Trained counsellors
are paid but trainees are volunteers.
Relate counsellors are trained to understand and identify possible DA including controlling
coercive behaviour. Couples counselling commences with both adults together followed by an
individual meeting to allow a counsellor to explore issues including DA. If there is a disclosure
then the person is signposted to a relevant DA support service, e.g. ESDAS.
Relate promote their services via a web site22 and information in GP practices, schools and
churches. Statistics provided by Relate-East Surrey show an increase in the number of clients
being seen who are suffering some form of DA. In 2016/17, 65 clients seen reported suffering
some form of DA and in the first six months of 2018/19, the number increased to 101 clients.
This has added pressure to the services offered.
There are risks for domestic abuse victims using mediation services and concerns have been
raised in court litigation and literature about power balance, the rights of women suffering from
domestic abuse and safety23
. With partners together with a mediator then domestic abuse
issues may not be disclosed and mediators need the skills and training to understand how to
identify domestic abuse in a relationship. 14.11.2 East Surrey Domestic Abuse Services (ESDAS)
ESDAS completed an IMR which confirmed that there was no contact with any family members.
ESDAS has been an active participant in this review providing expert advice throughout the
process.
Established in 1993, it began delivering services across East Surrey in 1998. Its purpose has
always been the relief of hardship, need and distress of those who are experiencing or have
experienced domestic abuse including any associated children. The Outreach Service provides
advice, advocacy, information and support on a range of issues including criminal and civil law,
benefits, debt, housing, safeguarding, risk and safety planning as well as empowering survivors
to take control of their own futures. The service aims to provide holistic services to avoid
survivors and their children being re-traumatised by repeating their experiences to multiple
professionals. This includes programme of group work, an informal Drop-In Support Group, the
Freedom Programme and Recovery Toolkit as well as Self-Esteem and Parenting Workshops,
along with associated services such as Independent Domestic Violence Advisors (IDVA) at
MARAC24 and Surrey's Specialist Domestic Violence Court (SDVC).
See Appendix 4 for further details around client numbers and the wider services and support
provided by ESDAS.
15. ANALYSIS
15.1 This analysis is based on information provided in the IMRs. Where relevant this includes
an assessment of appropriateness of actions taken (or not taken), and offers recommendations
to ensure lessons are learnt by relevant agencies. The Chair and Panel are keen to emphasise
that these comments and recommendations are made with the benefit of hindsight.
15.2 Doris, Peter, Lee and Sam seemed a reasonably happy ‘normal’ family to most observers
up until late 2015, although Doris suggested she was experiencing verbal /physical abuse (black
eye) including an allegation of rape and controlling behaviours from Peter during this time;
undermining her in front of her friends about her weight and appearance, stalking, threats to
self-harm and resisting separation. Both parents worked, and they had the pressure of caring
for two young children, getting them to school / nursery and a house that “resembled a building
site” for a number of years.
In 2015 Doris met her new partner John and the subsequent breakdown in the relationship with
Peter and Lee was rapid and resulted in Doris’s death six month later on 2 June 2016.
15.3 Key themes identified: Through analysis of the significant volume of information gathered,
the following issues were recognised:
i. Domestic Abuse – including coercive and controlling behaviour and lack of understanding
of a victim’s behaviour, including the use of retaliatory violence.ii. Mental Health Issues relating to Doris, Peter, Lee and Sam which could have indicated
domestic abuse.
iii. Lack of professional curiosity around DA including coercive controlling and stalking
behaviour.
iv. Lack of understanding around the DASH risk assessment and how a small number of
factors such as coercive control, stalking, separation, self-harm, mental ill health can
indicate a situation is high risk regardless of the number of ticks.
v. Lack of understanding of the family dynamics during the breakdown of a family
relationship.
vi. Lack of understanding by professionals of grooming behaviour, especially relating to the
children and key professionals involved.
vii. The lack of communication between agencies and between agencies and the family
especially relating to KPE Six.
viii. Lack of risk management around the assessment of KPE Four and KPE Six.
ix. Professionals lacked the skill to know how to listen and fully understand the voice of the
child with complex family relationships.
15.4 Were there any barriers experienced by Doris, Peter / friends / colleagues in seeking
support from professional service providers?
Doris, Peter and the children were involved with many service providers, namely the Police,
SCS, health agencies, education and the workplace. Prior to the break-up of their relationship,
contact with the various agencies e.g. school and health were seen as routine.
In January 2016 as part of KPE Four (Wellbeing of Parents and Children), several agencies
became involved with the family; the Police, social services and health. The IMRs indicate that
professionals saw this as a key episode in the life of the family, linked to the breakdown of the
relationship between Doris and Peter and the children. Peter was seen as the victim and Doris
was seen as the person responsible for breaking up the relationship.
Although a number of organisations were involved with the family, neither Doris nor Peter
accessed specialist DA services or voluntary / charity services that support breakdown of
relationships. It is known that information about DA services was provided to Doris and Peter
by colleagues and agencies. Doris’s family thought that she had accessed support from ESDAS
and it is not fully known why she did not seek advice. Agencies did not necessarily see Doris
as a victim, as professionals did not fully understand the characteristics of someone who was
being controlled and coerced. It appears that professionals linked domestic abuse to physical
violence and therefore Peter was seen as the victim.
On asking Peter why he did not access DA services his view was “It was not geared towards
men and he did not want to admit anything as he would feel weak”. Evidence shows that the
information and support offered by specialist DA services are gender neutral.
Information around relationship mediation services were not provided by any agencies that Doris
and Peter and the family came into contact. Peter was asked why such services were not
accessed and he indicated that he did not know much about them. The review has identified that agencies did not fully support a family going through separation and crisis and that there
are a number of support services in other sectors e.g. voluntary / charitable who could have
supported the family and who also have an understanding of the risks in relationship break down
including domestic abuse.
15.5 Lack of understanding of Domestic Abuse including Coercive Controlling Behaviour.
15.5i The DASH: Doris raised her concerns about Peter to the Police in January 2016 which
suggests that she did not feel safe. She highlighted that she had hidden Peter’s hunting knife
and ornamental swords for Peter’s protection but also for her own. A DASH was completed
which was graded at Standard Risk despite indicators around separation, disclosures of Peter’s
stalking behaviour, jealousy and Peter’s mental health including self-harm. If the DASH had
recognised these indicators as key risk factors linked homicide, it would have been assessed as
High Risk and Doris could have been referred immediately to the MARAC (Multi-Agency Risk
Assessment Conference) for a full review of safeguarding options available and an automatic
referral to ESDAS.
It should be noted that since the incident, the Police have had extensive training in DA including
controlling coercive behaviour and DASH Risk Assessments. In discussion with the Police
involved in KPE Four, they have all indicated that they would now see this incident differently
and a referral to the appropriate services would be made.
15.5ii SCS involvement: This was limited, based on verbal information shared between the
Police and themselves. At the first referral with the family, only support information was provided
and no contact was made. If the DASH had identified the issues and concerns above, it is likely
that there would have been more safeguarding concerns and interventions around the children.
15.5iii Mental Health: Professionals focused on the relationship breakdown between Doris and
Peter as the cause of the mental health issues in their lives. At no time were they linked to
possible domestic abuse, despite Doris saying she had been bullied and controlled for many
years.
15.5iv Lack of seeing the ‘bigger picture’:
KPE Five (Changes in the Children’s Behaviour March 2016) and KPE Six (Assault on Lee and
Peter April 2016) involved the Police, SCS, health professionals and education (Lee’s school).
It is very clear that KPE Four (Wellbeing of Parents and Children January 2016), Five and Six
were not linked together by the professionals involved.
Since KPE Four, the family relationships had deteriorated dramatically. Doris was struggling to
cope with her stress and anger, getting up early to travel to the family home from her mother'
house, taking the children to school and then going to work herself. Peter resisted the break-up
of the relationship and was trying to control the situation through using the children, especially
Lee, as a support and manipulating her against Doris.
KPE Five: Lee shared with her class teacher about Doris hitting her and she was given a Worry
Book to record her concerns in. Sam had also started to show signs of stress and worry at
nurseryKPE Six: The chaos of the family at this time led to Doris’s assault on Lee. This was a time that
the family needed significant support. The judge who conducted the Family Fact Finding in June
commented in his report that ‘SCS failed to identify all the family’s needs and the extra support
they required’. The neighbour who was asked to supervise Doris’s first visit to the children after
her Caution, said she felt she was ‘left high and dry’ to manage a difficult situation on her own.
Lee refused to meet her mother and the neighbour was uncertain what to do with no support. In
her words ‘Doris needed help for her anger and mental health’.
The Police in their own internal investigations have already identified that if KPE Four and Six
had been reviewed together and if a different decision had been made around the outcome to
charge Doris, then there would have been the potential to offer further support to all the family.
Whilst the decision taken in January 2016 was thought to be in the best interest of the family, no
ABE interview for Lee took place which would have allowed her to share her worries and
concerns. The rationale was that there would be nothing gained by prosecuting Doris and that
cautioning would allow the family time to try to work through their issues together.
15.6 Communication between the family and agencies.
Following KPE Six, Doris and her mother were left in limbo for several weeks about SCS agreed
visiting arrangements to see the children. According to Doris’s family and friends, this
accentuated Doris’s stress level. It has since been identified that during this period SCS was
going through a restructure in service provision, which meant further pressure on staff and had
resulted in a higher than usual number of agency staff being employed. Management oversight
was identified as not being sufficiently robust during this period of change.
15.7 Communication between Agencies.
During KPE Six a lack of information-sharing was identified between agencies which would have
been able to provide increased support. Health (GP), the Nursery and the School were not
notified about the CIN assessment which would have been invaluable in providing information
to help build up a more comprehensive picture of the family’s needs. Lee’s school have stated
that if they had known the full facts of KPE Six they could have provided extra support for the
family.
15.8 Were there opportunities for professionals that were missed, to routinely enquire
about domestic abuse, coercive, controlling and stalking behaviour which should have
led to a referral to a domestic abuse support service?
The IMRs and discussions with professionals have identified that there is still a lack of
understanding around DA and especially coercive, controlling, stalking behaviour.
15.8i Health (GPs) felt that Doris and Peter’s mental health issues were linked to the relationship
breakdown and not to any wider issues. Doris and Peter visited the GP several times in the last
six months of Doris’s life, when there were opportunities to enquire about DA. On one of her
visits, Doris disclosed that ‘she was fed up with being controlled by Peter’. It would appear that
this was not considered as DA and no referral was made.15.8ii Doris’s employer was unaware of her marriage breakdown and the KPE Six incident
until May 2016. However, they did signpost Doris to ESDAS, as did several of her friends and
colleagues. Doris chose not to contact the service at this time, despite her family believing that
she had.
15.9 Awareness of the potential presence of coercive control and how this impacts on
the behaviour of the victim and the perpetrator.
Coercive control is a term developed by Evan Stark25 to help the understanding that domestic
abuse is more than a “fight”. It is a pattern of behaviour which seeks to take away the victim’s
liberty or freedom, to strip away their sense of self. It is not just women’s bodily integrity which
is violated but also their human rights.26
The government’s definition of coercive and controlling behaviour is ‘a range of acts designed
to make a person subordinate and / or dependent by isolating them from sources of support,
exploiting their resources and capacities for personal gain, depriving them of the means needed
for independence and escape and regulating their everyday behaviours.’ It can be a pattern of
acts of assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation or other abuse that is used to harm, punish,
or frighten victims.’27
Male perpetrators of domestic abuse can present as a victim as in Peter’s case. Peter informed
the police that Doris had hit him, which she admitted to, stating “he (Peter) knew what buttons
to press. Often male perpetrators will hold a righteous position in relation to their violence and
they will focus on the actions of others. These men can present as charming to seek getting
professionals on side, indeed family and friends stated that Peter appeared charming to most
people. 28
Doris admitted to the police that she hit Peter but often women retaliate in the context
of violence against them, for example Peter would push and poke Doris. Women and men, in
general are likely to perpetrate equivalent levels of physical and psychological aggression, but
evidence suggests that men perpetrate sexual abuse, coercive control and stalking more. Peter
admitted to stalking Doris earlier in their relationship, latterly, in her life Doris started to wear a
wig when going out as she felt that Peter was following her. 29
15.9i The Family
There is no doubt from the evidence provided by family, friends and involved services that Doris,
Lee and professionals experienced coercive and controlling behaviour by Peter. Doris spoke to
family and friends about how Peter would undermine her in front of people. Peter admitted that
he had stalked Doris when they were first going out. When the relationship started to deteriorate
in late 2015, Peter began reading Doris’s phone messages so she changed her phone to “finger
print only” recognition. Peter would goad Doris about her new partner, which then triggered
retaliatory abuse by Doris on Peter. He also used ‘gaslighting’30 techniques to manipulate and undermine Doris for example snide comments about Doris letting herself go in front of other
people and aligning the children, especially Lee against Doris. He used Lee as a friend and
confidant during the break-up of the relationship. The professionals involved with Lee stated
that her language was very adult and that Peter was controlling her and telling her not to tell the
teacher ‘too much’. Several examples have already been detailed in paragraph 5.4.2
15.9ii Professionals
Peter also attempted to control and groom professionals. He was initially charming to people
he met and used this approach to try to control the professionals he came into contact with.
• SCS: KPE Six (Assault on Lee and Peter April 2016) identifies that Peter was dictating the
visiting arrangements around Doris seeing the children. The written agreement with SCS
stated that Doris must be accompanied by a supervising adult but a few weeks later through
verbal arrangements, he changed this to unsupervised visits to allow him to go to work. This
put added pressure on Doris, as she was required to rise early to arrive at the house, get the
children up and ready for school, drive them to school and nursery and then go on to work
herself. This added intolerable stress during the difficult breakdown in the relationship.
• The School: Peter would not adhere to the school policy of the requirement of making an
appointment to see the teacher despite being told to - he wanted to meet on his terms,
although he stated he was unaware of the policy (Source: Meeting with Peter)
• Police: Peter always presented himself as the victim and was certainly seen that way by the
Police. His DASH (KPE Six) identified 13 positive indicators. Doris admitted she hit Peter
but that he knew how to provoke a reaction (retaliatory violence). There was a general lack
of understanding of the wider aspects of domestic abuse as identified in discussions with
professionals and within the IMR. Physical violence was seen as the only form DA that they
had knowledge about and understanding of ongoing coercion, control, manipulation and
undermining is still not fully understood. The Police should be commended that senior
management have made the understanding of DA, including coercive controlling behaviour,
a top priority. Significant resources, staff and finance have been made available to ensure
staff are trained, understand the dynamics of DA and the behaviours of victims and
perpetrators. Front line Police staff have identified a change in their culture when dealing
with DA.
• SCS: Recognition they have a training gap around DA and coercive and controlling behaviour.
This will be addressed through the new structure around Family Resilience (see section
14.2.1iii Family Resilience)
Health: Health professionals including GPs have identified gaps in their knowledge and
understanding, particularly when there is no physical violence involved. 15.10 Consideration of the protected characteristics of equality and diversity issues that
appears pertinent to the victim or perpetrator.
15.10i Marriage
The breakdown in Doris and Peter’s marriage was the trigger that led to Doris’s homicide. It
would appear that Doris was seen by professionals as the person who had an affair and broke
up her marriage. At no point were other reasons considered e.g. DA including controlling
coercive behaviour. The breakdown of a relationship and separation are high risk indicators of
a DA homicide. The NSPCC Domestic Abuse; learning from case reviews 2013 highlights that
trigger events which can lead to a violent incident includes relationship breakdown and postseparation contact 31
.
15.10ii Sex (Gender)
Doris felt that she was never seen as a victim. Peter told the social worker that he was a victim
of DA as Doris had hit him. Doris was seen as the violent partner, despite both parents admitting
that they used smacking as a punishment and Peter using a long ruler to chastise the children.
In the criminal proceedings, the Defence highlighted that Doris was very tall in her high heels
and physically strong and so would be able to look after herself. This highlighted the view that
DA was all about physical abuse and did not consider emotional abuse.
Research also identifies that Doris died because she was a woman. Karen Ingala Smith stated
in her paper Femicide; men’s violence against women goes beyond domestic abuse. The ONS
2013/14 found women more likely than men to have been killed by a partner or ex- partner. 84
females (53%) had been killed by their current / former partner compared to a total of 23 men
(7%) over the same time frame.32
15.11 Agencies that had no contact will investigate whether helpful support could have
been provided and if so why this was not accessed.
Voluntary organisations were contacted to assess the availability of support in the community,
including relationship mediation and domestic abuse outreach. .
Doris was signposted to ESDAS by a number of agencies and her family thought that she had
made contact; it is unclear why she chose not to do so. She said she was aware of the service
when given information by the Police but she may have felt she had enough support in her life
at that time from family, her GP and through counselling, that to involve another agency would
be too much. Doris never really disclosed to agencies that she was a victim; she always said
Peter was only a danger to himself. Doris’s family state that Doris did not recognise herself as
a victim she only cared for others.
Peter did disclose DA by Doris to the Police, who provided him with information about ESDAS.
Again he felt he did not want to access such services. This could be related to his comment to
the Police saying he was embarrassed to disclose. In a subsequent meeting he said that
publicity material was only aimed at women whereas ESDAS publicity is gender neutral ESDAS outreach workers work with men as well as women and can refer an individual to another
outreach service if they would prefer a male worker..
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15.12 Identification of any training or awareness-raising requirements required to ensure
a greater knowledge and understanding of the impact of domestic abuse and availability
of support services:
Since 2016, Surrey Police have embarked on an extensive DA training programme (DA Matters
and DASH). This model of training should be adopted by other professionals e.g. social care
and health professionals, and the countywide Safeguarding programme run by the Safeguarding
Boards, to ensure a common understanding of the characteristics of DA, the services available
in the community and how to signpost and support not only the victim but also the family.
There is no doubt that Peter groomed and manipulated professionals. He refused to comply
with school policy about making appointments to see teachers and tried to control the situation
by simply turning up unannounced. He dictated the visiting arrangements for Doris to see the
children to suit his own ends, despite having a formal written agreement that social workers and
the family had approved.
Many professionals identified that they need training to better understand the concept of
grooming and how to manage a person trying to influence and groom them. A number of
professionals involved in this review also identified that they felt that they had insufficient
knowledge about understanding and interpreting the” Voice of the Child.” Professionals ignored
the voice of Sam who was suffering from emotional trauma as identified by his nursery.
15.13 Consider whether Lee’s welfare was promoted and protected through timely and
effective assessments, including risk assessments, and response to needs were
identified. This includes application of thresholds, information sharing, use of assessment tools
and timely interventions and recognition that those risks do not reduce at times of parental
separation.
15.13i The School: The class teacher had concerns about Lee and to support her she was
given a “Worry Book” so she could write down her anxieties. Although the Worry Book provided
an outlet for Lee, the school admitted that there was no agreed policy in place to monitor and
act upon the information that she recorded.
When the situation with Doris and Lee escalated further, the Head teacher made the decision
to inform Doris that she was going to refer the situation to SCS and submitted the safeguarding
referral MARF34. Although a social worker visited the school and met with Lee after the referral,
there was no further dialogue with the school about the assessment.
15.13ii SCS: The IMR indicates that following the school disclosure, it was agreed that a
CFA35 was the most appropriate step. The threshold for a Strategy Meeting involving other
agencies at that stage was not felt to have been met, as the parents had now separated. This
decision indicates that the social worker underestimated the risk of separation. Separation is a high-risk factor for domestic homicide due a loss of control by the perpetrator. Before the
children could be seen a further referral was received from Surrey Police relating to KPE Six
and Doris’s arrest. A Joint Section 47 enquiry took place with the Police by telephone. Health
professionals were not included, which they should have been as this would have provided a
more complete picture of the issues that the family were encountering during the relationship
break up.
The CFA assessment was delayed as there were issues with staff sickness. At same the time
there appears to have been a lack of resilience built into the SCS provision. Although the
assessment was completed within the timescales as set by SCS in 2016, it has been concluded
that a CIN Plan would have been put into place to support the children and the family had Doris
not died. What cannot be predicted is whether such interventions would have helped the whole
family. It is important is to ensure timely interventions and that there is a resilience in a service
which covers staff absence to ensure assessments can continue and that families get the help
when needed.
15.14 Consider whether there is evidence that managers and supervisors understood the
experience of children living with domestic abuse and the prevalence of the issue in the
area.
It would appear there is a lack of understanding by some professionals of the impact on children
living in a household where DA occurs. SCS highlighted that the needs of Sam were not
explored, despite living in a household where his parents were separating and being verbally
and physical abusive. His deteriorating behaviour at nursery was evidence that he was
experiencing the impact of domestic abuse (Source: SCS IMR).
Professionals assumed that, as Doris and Peter had separated, any risks around DA or harm to
the children had been reduced. There was no recognition that this was a time of heightened,
rather than reduced risk. A DA checklist was not completed when considering the needs of the
children and if it had been, further intervention by professionals could have been considered.
Recent statistics suggest that around 70% of referrals to the Surrey Multi Agency Safeguarding
Hub (MASH)36 include issues around DA. The Surrey MASH was one of the first to introduce
‘Operation Encompass’ to notify schools each morning about a child’s exposure to domestic
abuse at home (and, in Surrey, also when they have been reported missing). MASH officers
interrogate databases for the previous 24 hours (or 48 hours on a weekend) where a child under
18 was linked, involved in or a witness to domestic abuse. This information is shared with the
Education Safeguarding Team who then pass it to the relevant school by registration time so
appropriate support can be offered.
16 LESSONS IDENTIFIED FROM THE REVIEW
16.1 Domestic Abuse, including coercive, controlling and stalking behaviour and a lack
of understanding of behaviours shown by victims and perpetrators: This review has
identified that some professionals still see DA as physical violence between two intimate partners despite the changes to the legislation in December 2015 which created a new offence
of controlling or coercive behaviour in intimate or familial relationships37
.
16.1i The Police: Significant training has been delivered (DA Matters) across all levels of
staff, including the contact centre, to ensure that front line staff have the tools to identify DA
including coercive, controlling and stalking behaviour, understand the behaviour of the victim,
including retaliatory violence and ensure that victims get the correct support. In discussion
with the Police, the Independent chair felt that the officers were confident that they now had
the tool kit to help them “do the job”.
In 2018 Surrey Police were successful in securing the first ‘victimless’ conviction for coercive
controlling behaviour in the country38 based on evidence from the victim’s interviews and
hearsay evidence only. A“victimless prosecution” is one where no evidence is directly
provided from the complainant in the court due to fear of reprisal.
More recently in February 2019, a Surrey Police investigation led to second male being jailed
for rape and coercive controlling behaviour 39
16.1ii The School: The School readily admitted that at the time of the concerns around Lee
followed by Doris’s death, their knowledge was limited around DA and what to do. Since
2016 the school has improved its processes and procedures and has invested significantly to
ensure that safeguarding of the child is paramount. Staff now have the tools to ensure that
they know how to identify DA and the support that can be offered to families.
The School has also demonstrated how to support a child following a loss of a parent and
provision of ongoing support to Lee and Sam through the long custody process. It is felt that
the school has developed excellent policies, procedures and tools to support children and
families experiencing DA and child abuse. It is important that this is shared with the wider
education community.
16.1iii Promotion of a common understanding of DA: Health and SCS would benefit from
a bespoke training package like the successful Police “DA Matters” programme. It would
ensure a common process and ‘language’ across all agencies which would better support
families experiencing abuse.
16.1iv Wider community: The review also identifies that the wider community does not fully
understand DA and especially controlling coercive and stalking behaviour. Doris’s family
noticed that Peter could be controlling but were not fully aware of the situation until late 2015
when the relationship between Doris and Peter was deteriorating. There is still much more
information required at a local and national level so the wider community can recognisebehaviour of a perpetrator and a victim and what they can do to support themselves (if they
are a victim) or other people.
16.2 Mental Health Issues relating to Doris, Peter, Lee and Sam: All the family experienced
mental health trauma throughout the last six months of Doris’s life. The mental health issues
that Doris, Peter and Lee were experiencing seem to have been viewed in isolation and DA was
not identified even though Peter admitted to being verbally abusive to Doris.
The mental health concerns were linked to the relationship breakdown and other possibilities
such as DA were not considered or the impact this had on the safety of the children. Doris had
sought help to try to work through her issues, especially in trying to control her anger. The GP
offered Doris medication and talking therapy which she participated in. Peter was also offered
support by the GP but he did not show any commitment to any support offered. This would
appear to indicate that Doris was being proactive in supporting her own mental wellbeing
whereas Peter would not accept that he may have some mental health issues to address. SaBP
identified it would have been beneficial for Peter to have been offered an assessment and not
just referred to the GP at that time.
Research indicates that mental health and ally types of domestic abuse are linked. Women who
suffer abuse by a partner are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety 40
. There is
evidence to indicate that GPs still have a lack of certainty in suspecting domestic abuse which
is coercive and controlling. Despite Doris telling the GP about “having had enough of the way
Peter treated her” this was seen in the acrimonious break up of a marriage.
This would indicate that primary care professionals need further training and an understanding
of all forms of domestic abuse, emotional, coercive control and stalking.
16.3 Lack of professional curiosity around DA including coercive and controlling
behaviour: Much has already been written in this report about lack understanding of coercive
and controlling behaviour by professionals which, linked to limited professional curiosity towards
the family, led to a significant gap in information. There were disclosures by Doris to health
professionals about control and Lee identified issues to her school around safeguarding but
other family dynamics were not explored such as DA. With a better understanding of coercive,
controlling and stalking behaviour through training, there will be better opportunities for
professional curiosity.
16.4 Lack of understanding of the family dynamics during the breakdown of a
relationship: The family was at crisis point in April 2016. Physical and verbal abuse was
prevalent between Doris and Peter which was being witnessed by both children. The judge in
the Fact Finding investigation stated that Doris and Peter grossly mishandled the breakdown of
their relationship and failed to protect the children. (Source: Fact Finding Hearing Approved
Judgement). The DHR recognises however that Doris had very limited scope for choice in the
last 6 months of her life. Events in the life of the family appear to have been seen in isolation and not linked - no ‘bigger
picture’ was seen. Professionals did not appear to support the family following KPE Four, Five
and Six, despite concerns identified around the breakup of the relationship and concerns around
stalking.
The Munro Review of Child Protection 201141 and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018
highlight the need to provide early help as an effective approach to promoting the welfare of
children, rather than reacting later. Following Doris’s visit to the police in January 2016, there
was contact with SCS but no further support was given, as this was the family’s first involvement
with the service. This was the policy at this time. With the new transformation programme being
rolled out by SCS there will be the opportunity to support children and families at an earlier stage
and with a specialist DA advisor within the team, the ability to sign post and support the family
as a whole entity.
Further DA training for professionals should give them the tools necessary to understand
behaviours of both victims and perpetrators and identify what to do and how to provide support.
16.5 Lack of understanding by professionals of grooming, especially relating to children
and to the key professionals involved: Peter controlled and was grooming a number of
professionals including teachers and social workers, through dictating visiting arrangements for
Doris and turning up at the school without an appointment to talk to Lee’s teacher despite being
informed not to.
The school, the Police and social workers spoke about the children using ‘adult language’ and
that they felt that Peter was influencing and grooming the children to be ‘on his side’.
During the review, professionals readily admited that they needed a better understanding of
grooming techniques. Better training and a common understanding would help professionals
develop the tools to manage situations including challenging the person trying to groom them
and what to do if they feel the person is grooming a child.
16.6 Lack of communication between agencies and the family especially relating to KPE
Six: The review has identified that during KPE Six there was no communication between SCS
and Doris and her mother for around six weeks, despite both trying to contact the social worker.
This was a desperate time for Doris who was already suffering stress and anxiety from the
breakdown of the relationship. She was separated from the children who she loved and was
unclear when she would be able to see them again. The lack of communication and information
added extra pressure. Doris’s mother had also been heavily involved with the upbringing of the
children and she had no communication about why she could not see them. The review
identified that Lee did not want to see her grandmother as “Doris and her grandmother” ganged
up on her.
Regular, honest communication between agencies and the family could have reduced the
anxiety that Doris was enduring and help Doris’s mother understand as to why she could not
see the children. In future agencies should ensure that there are policies in place to communicate promptly with families during times of separation of mother / father from their
children in order to reduce anxiety and an escalation of stress and concern.
Consideration should be given to sharing information regarding Child in Need conferences with
the relevant GP, to ensure they are aware of any Child Protection plan in place. GPs also do
not receive notifications following a police attendance at a domestic abuse incident. The need
to share information effectively remains, as ever, a multi-agency responsibility.
16.7 Lack of risk management around the assessment of KPE Four and KPE Six: The
Review and especially the agencies involved with the family, identified that professionals needed
to evaluate the risk around the decisions they made. If Doris had been charged and not
cautioned (KPE Six) then extra support may have been made available to the family.
The significance of stalking was not identified at that time. Doris disclosed that Peter had
previously stalked her and felt that he was doing so again just before she was killed, by following
her and by reading her phone. Doris’s family stated that Doris started to wear a wig when going
out to disguise herself, indicating that she was fearful of Peter stalking her.. A study42 (MonktonSmith 2017) found stalking was present in 94% of the 358 cases of criminal homicides they
looked at. Surveillance activity, including covert watching, was recorded 63% of the time. 85%
of homicides occurred in the victim’s home. In almost every case, the killer displayed the
obsessive, fixated behaviour associated with stalking.
SCS went through a structural change during KPE Six. There needed to be robust risk
management policies in place around the changes e.g. identification of pressure on staff,
appropriate briefing of agency workers etc. to ensure that the quality of support to the children
and familiy continued at the level expected to ensure adequate safeguarding.
16.8 A lack of understanding of how to listen to the voice of a child: This has been identified
by SCS and will be addressed through the new structure around Family Resilience (see section
14.2.1iii Family Resilience).
16.9 Support for Professionals: It is apparent that professionals and work colleagues have
been deeply affected by the tragedy relating to the death of Doris. It is important that
organisations consider their duty of care to staff following such a tragedy. As an example of
good practice, Doris’s workplace offered counselling, time off and a phased return to work to
those who worked closely with Doris. Sadly, experienced staff have left at least two of the
organisations involved due to the ongoing trauma they experienced during and after the incident.
17 CONCLUSIONS
This review has highlighted the tragic cost of coercive control and domestic abuse resulting in
the death of Doris and the emotional and physical abuse suffered by the children. The incident
has a wide and enduring impact upon families, friends, colleagues and professionals. Doris and
Peter appeared to have a reasonable relationship until late 2015, although Doris mentioned she had felt controlled for years. There was then a rapid deterioration during their relationship
breakdown and the separation resulting in the tragic death of Doris, the serious injury to Lee and
the emotional harm to Lee and Sam.
17.1 During the six months prior to Doris’s death a number of agencies had contact with the
family. It would appear that agencies did not link events to see a ‘bigger picture’ and did not
review the needs of the whole family during a time of relationship break up and separation. This
contributed to the lack of understanding around risk in domestic abuse and how separation can
be a key indicator of high likelihood of serious harm.
17.2 In 2016 there appeared to be a general lack of understanding by many professionals (and
the wider community) regarding the breadth of domestic abuse and all its iterations. Section 76
of the Serious Crime Act 201543 created a new offence of controlling or coercive behaviour in
an intimate or family relationship. The legislation is still in its infancy and it remains a slow
process of raising understanding. This confusion perhaps explains why it is still primarily
physical acts of violence that are focused upon in response to domestic abuse. There is much
more information required locally and nationally about controlling and coercive behaviour so that
communities and especially victims know how to identify such behaviours. Professionals need
a common understanding and approach to DA including training.
The Police DA Matters programme appears to provide an excellent model in supporting cultural
change and providing staff with the relevant tools to support the community in the future. All
professionals working with families and children need to be empowered within a culture that
encourages further insight, discussion and support outside of their respective organisations in
order to raise concerns. As an example Doris did say to the GP that she had had enough of
being controlled by Peter. The GP at the time did not probe further as they may not have been
fully conversant with coercive behaviour and as such would not have understood this as
domestic abuse.
This review identifies that it is imperative that agencies work together to provide a coordinated
approach to supporting families through crisis. The relationship between Doris and Peter in the
last six months of Doris’s life was toxic. This had a profound effect on Doris, Peter and especially
Lee and Sam. If professionals had worked together earlier to provide information and support
to the whole family then the obvious stress that Doris was enduring may have been reduced,
resulting in a better relationship with Lee.
Working together to Safeguard Children 201844 identifies that everyone who works with
children has a responsibility to keep them safe. No single practitioner can have a full picture of
a child’s needs and circumstances and, if children and families are to receive the right help at
the right time, everyone who comes into contact with them has a role to play in identifying
concerns, sharing information and taking prompt action. It is imperative that agencies work together to provide a coordinated approach to supporting
families through crisis. The recommendations below are designed to build upon the changes
that have already begun in some agencies across all professionals to a common level where
domestic violence or abuse and its nature are addressed more comprehensively and with
improved understanding of its dynamics. This includes an understanding of the heightened risk
of separation, coercive control, stalking behaviour, domestic abuse and child abuse and the
tools in order to support the whole family.
17.3 This review has highlighted the wider issue that DA and child abuse has had on
professionals attending the tragedy and supporting the family. Expert trauma support following
such a terrible tragedy should be readily available to professionals, especially when vicarious
trauma is suspected.
18. POST REVIEW LEARNING
This DHR and SCR has involved a number of parallel reviews which extended the time frame;
two criminal court sessions, two Welfare hearings and several internal reviews. The
Independent Chair and the DHR Panel have not wanted to undermine any of these proceedings
and therefore arriving at a conclusion for these reviews has taken longer than was hoped.
Although the scope of this DHR/SCR ended after Doris’s death (2 June 2016), due to the
extended time period for carrying out this review, there are a number of valuable post review
learning points for agencies to consider and act upon.
18.1 Children’s memories of Doris
Feedback suggests that Lee still has difficult memories of Doris. Although in the past two and
half years she has remembered Doris on Mother’s Day and birthdays, she still seems to blame
Doris for breaking up the family and she has memories of Doris “being horrible to Sam. Sam
himself does not mention such difficult memories, possibly because he was much younger at
the time of the tragedy.
It will be important for professionals involved with the children in the future to ensure their mother
and father are represented fairly to them, without bias. As the judge comments in the Family
Fact Finding report “Doris had many qualities with Peter saying she was a fabulous mother,
being selfless, caring, loving and nurturing wife and mother”.
18.2 Foster Care for Children following a tragedy.
Following Doris’s death, the children were placed with foster family A. Sam complained to his
social worker that his teeth were being cleaned so hard his gums bled. SCS carried out an
Independent Review which considered eight concerns of which five were substantiated, two
were unfounded and one was unsubstantiated. The overall investigation highlighted how the
carers had been overwhelmed by the complexity of the children’s needs and as a result was
not able to provide the consistent therapeutic care they needed.
The learning from this investigation highlights the need for professionals to provide specialist
support to foster carers to enable them to support the children in their care through significant trauma. This will help foster carers to understand a child’s behaviour and their reaction to a
significant trauma in their life.
18.3 Wellbeing Support for Professionals across all investigations
There is a need to recognise ‘vicarious trauma45’ amongst professionals who provide support in
tragic situations such as this.
18.3i As already identified within the report (Paragraph 16.9) this tragedy has adversely
affected a number of professionals leading to retirement on grounds of PTSD or choosing to
leave their positions due to the trauma they experienced supporting others. Many others
required counselling and time away from work.
18.3ii It has become evident that the emotional impact on professionals has continued,
especially around those still directly involved with the children, social workers and staff at Lee
and Sam’s school. A social worker initially working with the children became so involved with
the tragedy that it led to the person leaving the service.
18.3iii The future caring arrangements for the children were agreed in September 2018 and
they have now left this area. Lee was moving to secondary school and professionals who
had supported her during this traumatic period were able to say their good-byes to her in July
2018 as a form of closure. As the Care Proceedings took place in September, Sam did not
return to the school at all, which staff were only aware of the day before term started. There
was no opportunity to say goodbye to the child they had supported during such a traumatic
part of his life, which several staff found upsetting. Staff also felt that if they had been kept
updated, arrangements could have been made for the necessary assessments to be shared
with the new school.
18.3iv It is paramount that agencies consider the ongoing support required by professionals
involved with the family post-tragedy. Ongoing clinical supervision and specialist trauma
support may be required for a considerable period after the incident to safeguard the
wellbeing of professionals.
18.3v There is also the need for social workers to keep professionals (e.g. school staff)
updated (as appropriate) about the future family arrangements for children. This can allow
the professionals to ensure that children have the correct assessments and are as well
prepared for their future as they can be.
18.4 Process of a Joint DHR / SCR
18.4i There is no doubt that the decision to carry out a joint DHR / SCR review has been of
benefit. The death of Doris (DHR), physical abuse towards Lee and emotional abuse towards
both children (SCR) are inextricably linked as shown by the Key Practice Episodes described
in Section 10. The family were in crisis during the separation; there was controlling and
coercive behaviour, grooming of the children, domestic abuse between Doris and Peter and physical and emotional abuse of both children. The Panel has been able to analyse events,
agency support and lessons learned to develop more robust recommendations that hopefully
can reduce such tragedies in the future.
18.4ii Carrying out such a joint review though has had its challenges:
▪ Different Status of the family members: Although all DHRs and SCRs have
complexities, incidents in this review blurred the boundaries between victims and
perpetrators. Doris is the victim of a domestic homicide but was Cautioned by the police for
abuse towards Lee. Peter is the perpetrator of the domestic homicide which he admitted
(although he was acquitted of murder) but he is also the father of the children and this needed
to be considered as part of the SCR. The family of Doris are central to the DHR process and
the children and Peter are central to the SCR.
▪ Different Processes for the Quality Assurance of DHRs and SCRs: The DHR
process puts the family of the victim at the heart of a review and the SCR puts the children at
the heart of its review and focusses on how agencies worked together to safeguard the
children identifying areas of good practice and those requiring practice improvement. A SCR
goes through its Quality Assurance process at the Local Safeguarding Children Board and
Strategic Case Review Group and then via the National Panel at the Department of Education
before the report is shared with the family member(s). DHR Draft Reports go to the family for
any comments before being signed off by the Community Safety Partnership and then sent
to the Home Office to be reviewed and Quality Assured. These different approaches have
extended the time line for completion of this review. It has also been very difficult for Doris’s
family to understand the different processes and their status within the reviews.
It is not fully known how many joint DHR / SCR reviews have taken place to date. From a learning
perspective, it is important that the family / parent have an early explanation regarding their
status within each element of the review. It may also be beneficial for the Home Office and
the Department of Education to consider any streamlining of the Quality Assurance
Processes for joint reviews.
18.5 Benefits of a Surrey-wide Designated GP for Safeguarding Children: The presence
of this post has been of significant benefit to the Review. The GP had detailed knowledge and
experience relating to domestic abuse including CCB and safeguarding of children. She has
been able to challenge the health support that was provided to the family in a constructive
manner and has been able to support achievable recommendations for GP practices. The
Independent Chair has also found it of benefit to have one contact who she can discuss issues
with in a constructive manner.
19. RECOMMENDATIONS
The following recommendations have been arrived at using a range of information sources:
IMR recommendations / learning from the Review / the Review Panel’s discussion and
deliberations. 19.1 Professional Practice
Recommendation One
The School, in partnership with Surrey Local Safeguarding Partnership, to develop guidance on
supporting children and families during the breakdown of a relationship or family tragedy, which
will include appropriate communication tools for children to voice their concerns.
Ownership: The School and Surrey Local Safeguarding Partnership.
Recommendation Two
Surrey Children Families and Learning (SCFL) to ensure that social workers are following
procedures in supporting a connected person (non-professional) who supervises meetings
between an adult and a child.
Ownership: SCFL (Surrey Children Families and Learning)
Recommendation Three
Surrey Children Families and Learning (SCFL) to ensure that social workers always involve
health professionals in Section 47 investigations to ensure a complete analysis of the family
issues in order for appropriate support and resources. To be made available.
Ownership: SCFL (Surrey Children Families and Learning)
19.2 Training - Local
Recommendation Four
Agencies e.g. Police, SCFL, health and other agencies working with children to have the skills
to understand the complexities of working with the voice of a child and in the use of the tools
available, to interpret what is being said in the context of the situation. This will enable
professionals to assess any grooming or coercing of children by a perpetrator .
Ownership: Surrey Children’s Services Academy
Recommendation Five
The Surrey Children’s Services Academy, Surrey Safeguarding Children Board / Surrey Local
Safeguarding Partnership and Surrey Safeguarding Adult Board to ensure, through DA and
safeguarding training, that staff working with families and children have an in-depth
understanding of coercive controlling behaviour. This should include awareness of stalking,
perpetrator grooming of family members and professionals, retaliatory violence and violent
resistance, which will enable professionals to have a better understanding of the risks relating
to domestic violence.
Ownership: Surrey Children’s Services Academy, Surrey Safeguarding Children
Board/ Surrey Local Safeguarding Partnership and Surrey Safeguarding Adult Board. East Surrey Community Safety Partnership
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Recommendation Six
GPs to be reminded, through DA training, to evaluate the risk to other family members when
engaging with a patient where there has been a disclosure from within the family. GPs should
be familiar with the new GMC Guidance around information sharing and the need to record on
patient records any decisions and the rationale behind decisions to share information outside of
these parameters.
Ownership: Surrey Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)
Recommendation Seven
Surrey Domestic Abuse Management Board (DAMB) and borough Community Safety Teams
promote and recommend to local businesses and organisations that they join the Employers’
Initiative on Domestic Abuse and introduce work place domestic abuse policies to ensure that
staff remain up to date and confident in their knowledge about DA and how to support
employees.
Ownership: Surrey Domestic Abuse Management Board (DAMB) / Borough
Community Safety Teams
19.3 Assessment of Risk
Recommendation Eight
SCFL to ensure that social workers carry out a thorough assessment of need for children. This
will include issues affecting the family e.g. breakdown of family relationships, separation, mental
health, DA including controlling coercive behaviour.
Ownership: SCFL
Recommendation Nine
SCFL / Surrey Children’s Services Academy to ensure that all agency staff have support and
management supervision including a robust induction programme into local procedures.
Ownership: SCFL / Surrey Children’s Services Academy
19.4 Support for Professionals
Recommendation Ten
That the Police, SCFL, Education and Health ensure that they have sufficient clinical supervision
(including trauma counselling) available on an ongoing basis to support staff who have been
involved in a tragedy and if services are already available to ensure they are promoted to staff.19.5 National and Regional
Recommendation Eleven
That Surrey continues to support Home Office campaigns which reinforce public awareness of
controlling and coercive behaviour including the behaviour of victims and perpetrators through
public campaigns in different media.
Ownership: Home Office / DAMB
Recommendation Twelve
Surrey DAMB to continue to reinforce public awareness of controlling coercive behaviour locally
by campaigns in publications and public places.
Ownership: DAMB
19.6 National
Recommendation Thirteen
ES CSP to highlight the need for the Home Office and Ofsted to consider streamlining processes
and to produce guidance for joint DHR / SCR reviews.
Ownership: ES CSP
Recommendation Fourteen
ES CSP to highlight to the Home Office the current underdevelopment of interpersonal violence
interventions for relationships that are in the process of breaking down.</div><div><br /></div><div>APPENDIX TWO
BOROUGH DOMESTIC HOMICIDE REVIEW
and SERIOUS CASE REVIEW PANEL
December 2016
TERMS OF REFERENCE
1. This Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) is being conducted in accordance with Section
9(3) of the Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act 2004.
2. This legislation places a statutory responsibility on organisations to securely share
sensitive information, which will remain confidential until the panel agrees the level of
detail required in the final report for publication.
3. A Serious Case Review (SCR) will run alongside this process to ensure full consideration
of all factors leading to the death on 2 June 2016. As this will be both an SCR and a
DHR, the Panel will seek to work jointly with this process to avoid duplication of contact
with, or requests for information from, agencies, family members, friends and colleagues.
4. The DHR will strictly follow the East Surrey Community Safety Partnership (ES CSP)
DHR protocol, which is based on Home Office guidance46
5. The statutory purpose of the DHR is to:
a) Establish what lessons can learned from the domestic homicide regarding how the
local professionals and organisations worked individually and together to safeguard the
victims of domestic abuse;
b) Identify clearly what those lessons are, both within and between agencies, how they
will be acted on, and what will change as a result through a detailed Action Plan;
c) Apply these lessons to service responses including changes to policies and procedures
as appropriate;
d) Prevent domestic homicides where possible in future through improved intra and interagency responses for all domestic abuse victims and their children.
6. The statutory purpose of the SCR is to:
a) establish what lessons are to be learned from the case about the way in which local
professionals and organizations work individually and together to safeguard and
promote the welfare of children;
b) identify clearly what those lessons are both within and between agencies, how and
within what timescales they will be acted on, and what is expected to change as a
result; and c) improve intra- and inter-agency working and better safeguard and promote the welfare
of children.
7. The agreed timeframe for information to be secured and reviewed is five years prior to
the event i.e. from May 2013, unless there have been significant events prior to this.
8. The DHR will not seek to apportion blame to individuals or agencies from the information
it receives. However, it is recognised that other parallel procedures (e.g. SCR, IOPC
referral, internal agency disciplinaries) may use information from the DHR process to
support their investigations.
9. The Panel notes that the DHR process may be suspended as necessary to avoid the risk
of activities prejudicial to criminal proceedings. The trial is scheduled for December 2016.
(This was subsequently rescheduled to May 2017). The DHR will then recommence
after the verdict has been issued.
10.In addition the following areas will be addressed in the Individual Management Reviews
(IMRs):
i. Identification of any training or awareness raising requirements that are necessary to
ensure a greater knowledge and understanding of domestic abuse processes and/or
services.
ii. Awareness of the potential presence of coercive control and how this may have
impacted on the behaviour of the victim and perpetrator. The Panel may invite input from
experts in this field.
iii. Consideration of any equality and diversity issues that appear pertinent to the victim or
perpetrator47
iv. Agencies that had no contact will investigate whether helpful support could have been
provided and if so why this was not accessed.
v. Consider whether agencies working with the family adopted a ‘child- centred approach’,
viewing family conflict and incidents of domestic abuse through the eyes of the child.
vi. Consider whether the children’s welfare was promoted and protected through timely and
effective: assessment including risk assessment and response to the needs identified
(this includes application of thresholds, information sharing, use of assessment tools and
timely intervention) and the recognition that risks do not reduce at times of parental
separation.
vii. Consider whether there is evidence that managers and supervisors understood the
experiences of children living with domestic abuse and the prevalence of the issue in the
area.
11.The Panel will critically evaluate and approve the Overview Report, Executive Summary
and Action Plan produced by the Independent Chair at the end of investigation prior to it </div><div><br /></div><div>APPENDIX THREE
Police Recommendations
Recommendation 1
For the Detective Inspector and Detective Sergeant to have the findings of this report shared with
them and in particular the findings attributed to each.
Update - Action completed.
Recommendation 2
For the DA portfolio lead to satisfy herself that the number and scale of DA cautions is appropriate
in light of MOJ guidelines.
Update A review of the DA caution policy has been carried out and updated following the incident.
Action completed.
Recommendation 3
For Public Protection DS/DI/DCI decision makers within CPD training to receive an input from the
Domestic Assault Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the use of DVPNs, and the force policy of use of
cautions. If agreed for the PPSU to ensure compliance.
Update SME continue to refresh the DVPN training for all ranks in the organisation.
Recommendation 4
This case shows the importance of decision makers in Public Protection being current in their training
and knowledge of child abuse and domestic abuse. Where needed refresher courses for
experienced staff should be considered in this fast changing environment.
Update More specific appropriate training is currently being explored with all Detectives.
Recommendation 5
In light of this case and recent HMIC feedback, for the DA Lead to determine if specific
supplementary training and guidance is required within the Safeguarding Investigation Unit team
involved.
Recommendation 6
For Custody Inspectors to satisfy themselves that their staff are confident in their knowledge on the
MOJ guidelines in giving cautions for DA offences.
Recommendation 7
For consideration of making the published force caution procedure for DA offences more user
friendly, rather than referral to lengthy national guidance documents.
Update The DA policy has been updated into one single document. At the time of the incident there
were over 20 policies.
Recommendation 8
For the Gold commander to consider whether this report and / or learning identified is shared with
any stakeholders or family members involved in this case.
Update: The Det Superintendent involved in this case has offered to meet the family.
Recommendation 9
For the Post Incident Manager to be provided with a copy of the report so welfare support can be
provided to those who fall under the process.</div><div><br /></div><div>APPENDIX FOUR
EAST SURREY DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES (ESDAS)
https://www.esdas.org.uk/ Tel 01737 771350
Associated services include Independent Domestic Violence Advisors (IDVA) at MARAC48
and Surrey's Specialist Domestic Violence Court (SDVC). The Volunteering Project aims at
harnessing the skills and experiences of survivors of DA to help others recover from abuse
and reintegrate into their local community. Children and young people services include 1 to
1 work, group work, Play Therapy and expert consultancy to professionals in particular
Children's Social Care. They are one of only 30 areas in the country to manage Identification
& Referral to Improve Safety (IRIS) Project - a primary care enquiry and referral pathway
which identifies survivors of DA at the earliest opportunity and ensuring they have access to
specialist support.
Between 1st April 2017 and 31st March 2018 the service received 2,538 adult referrals,
dealt with 13,004 contacts from clients, undertook 653 face-to-face outreach
appointments and joint visits with clients. They advocated for clients at 617 multi-agency
meetings and liaised with partner agencies on behalf of clients on 7,858 occasions
Breakdown of cases:
▪ 1,190 cases were classified as either high or medium risk of harm based on the DASH
Risk Assessment Checklist.
▪ 35 individual children and young people cases including 25 one-to-one meetings
▪ Advocated for children at 143 meetings including Case Conferences, family Group
Conferences, etc.
▪ Provided 73 parent consultations with non-abusive parents
▪ Provided 122 individual consultancy sessions to Assistant Team Managers, Social
Workers and Family Support Workers based within the East Surrey Social Care Team
Volunteers:
▪ 32 Volunteers provided 1,311 hours of their time to support users at court hearings
and a range of appointments.
▪ They befriended service users and their children and supported service users through the
ESDAS Group Work Programme. Their roles include: co-facilitating the Support Group,
Freedom Programme and Recovery Toolkit, providing emotional and practical support
during groups and acting as positive role models for the children and young people
attending.
▪ They helped with a range of awareness raising and fundraising activities and attended
internal and external training courses to further their development.
As well as providing direct support to survivors and DA and their children ESDAS also
provides support to friends and family of those affected by DA and advice to any agency or
professional trying to support someone experiencing domestic abuse. Working with ESDAS</div><div><br /></div><div>APPENDIX FIVE
SURREY CHILDREN’S SERVICES ACADEMY
Objectives
The purpose of the Academy is to act as an engine for improvement in practice and partnership
working. Specifically it will work to:
• Ensure all staff have up to date knowledge and skills to fulfil their roles: there needs to be
a 'back to basics' approach to ensure that practice is informed by a strong knowledge and
skills base in terms of understanding risk, undertaking assessments etc.
• Introduce and embed new skills, values and ways of working in Surrey to staff in all
agencies that work with children and families. These fundamental basics will be within a
new model that is fundamentally about building family resilience and a strengths-based
approach. The new model and approach need to be understood by the whole workforce
as well as each person understanding their roles and responsibilities to make them work.
• Drive culture change and develop a shared language and values: the Academy should
play an important role in building a shared commitment across agencies and professional
boundaries towards better outcomes for children and achieving these through earlier
intervention and prevention. The shared language will reinforce this and ensure effective
communication across different parts of the workforce. We want to create an open,
collaborative, learning culture.
• Drive up and help maintain professional standards: the Academy needs to work very
closely with heads of profession like the Principal Social Worker to tackle development
areas revealed in practice audits, performance appraisals, Serious Care Reviews etc. It
is also important for training to be up to date and refreshed to reflect changes in law and
best practice nationally. We want to embrace the concept of a learning culture - everyone,
at every stage of their careers, needs to keep on learning and being open to new ideas.
• Build effective leadership skills and capacity across children's services that can lead and
sustain change: if front-line staff are trained in new ways of working and this is not
reinforced by managers and leaders back in the workplace then staff are likely to revert
to previous practice. It is therefore important for managers and leaders to prioritise their
own development so that their own practice is up to date and they can mentor their staff.
In addition we need leaders who think across the whole system and not just their service
or team. The expectation therefore will not only be of continuous professional
development but that career progression will hinge on having undertaken the necessary
learning to equip managers for the challenges they will face as they move up the career
ladder.
• Develop better understanding between agencies of each other's roles and
responsibilities, more effective ways of working together and confidence to work in multiagency teams - managers and staff need to understand and value partners' contributions.
It is important for individuals to have an understanding of different perspectives and to
'walk in the shoes' of partners. They must also understand how to work effectively as
part of a real or virtual multi-agency team and what the team is aiming to change for thatchild or family. The focus at all times must be the child, and that means joining up
effectively around the child's needs and not letting the boundaries between teams and
agencies to get in the way.
• Improve retention by making Surrey a good place to work. Remuneration is only one
factor in attracting and retaining staff. Feeling valued and supported are key. The aim of
the Academy is to invest in people's development and help them feel supported
throughout their careers. There is clear evidence from other local authorities that these
elements have an impact on recruitment and retention. If more staff can be retained this
will also reduce spend on agency staff.
• Support the pace and sustainability of the transformation programme for children and
families by embedding new ways of working: the improvement programme for children
needs to have an impact quickly and for the changes made to be sustained into the future.
Establishing an Academy will provide a vehicle to reinforce and embed good practice.
• Keep abreast of new practice - the Academy will have a responsibility to forge and
maintain relationships with regional, national and international experts, and to bring their
learning into Surrey. This will include holding regular speaker events so that staff can be
inspired by hearing from leaders in their fields and challenged to think how they can use
this learning in their practice.
Model
The Academy is still in the design phase but some elements are clear. As will be apparent the
vision for the Academy is something much broader than simply a vehicle for delivering training
and development – although that will be central to how it achieves its objectives.
• The aim is to create a virtual ‘hub and spokes’ model. The Academy will be the hub
providing overall co-ordination of learning and development and ensuring that whole
workforce training is in place. It will be responsible for all learning and development
relating to children and families in the Council and will support the children’s workforce
into and through their Surrey careers. It will also connect with and inform learning and
development programmes and networks in different agencies and services. This will
ensure that the core family resilience and family safeguarding approaches being adopted
in Surrey are reinforced in all agencies and that there is a strategic understanding of
workforce development needs with capacity and resourcing across the system to address
these.
• The Academy will report into the Director of Quality Assurance, reflecting the strong links
between quality assurance and learning and development.
• To drive forward the design of the Academy and ensure we have good engagement from
partners and staff we are establishing:
1. A strategic stakeholder group with membership from across the Council and from
partners to shape proposals on scope, direction and priorities.
2. A reference group of staff and managers from across the workforce to provide ideas and
feedback, help shape the content and act as ambassadors for the Academy in their
services.
3. A mechanism for regular input from children and young people and from foster carers. East Surrey Community Safety Partnership
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4. The offer to managers and staff will include conventional training courses, plus e-learning,
a library of resources that can be accessed, opportunities for work shadowing and
coaching and regular events with external speakers who are regional or national? experts
in their fields </div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div><div><div id="sizer" style="font-size: 13px; height: 50037px; position: absolute; width: 535px; z-index: 0;"></div><viewer-password-screen id="password-screen" style="--scrollable-border-color: var(--google-grey-refresh-300); font-size: 13px;"><cr-dialog id="dialog" no-cancel="" style="--transparent-border: 1px solid transparent;"></cr-dialog></viewer-password-screen><span face="Roboto, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: #525659; font-size: 13px;"></span><viewer-zoom-toolbar id="zoom-toolbar" style="--button-position-offset: 48px; bottom: 0px; font-size: 13px; padding: 48px 0px; position: fixed; right: 0px; user-select: none; z-index: 3;"><div id="zoom-buttons" style="position: relative; right: var(--button-position-offset);"><viewer-zoom-button closed_="" icons="pdf:fullscreen-exit cr:fullscreen" id="fit-button" style="--translate-x-distance: 132px; 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<span style="font-size: large;">I ride my bike to honour the lives of women murdered as a result of domestic abuse. The women I ride for were killed by men who were current or former intimate partners or family members. I have so far ridden my bike for 324 women murdered since 2016 and approximately 8300 miles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On each ride I undertake, I think of the woman and how she was murdered and I try to think of how her life was before him, who she was, and how she must have felt, what she must have been thinking in her final moments. In my head I promise her that I'll work, as many other women do, to make sure we don't forget her and that we will work to try to stop other women being murdered like she was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I almost always cry. I am always full of anger that a man was able to do this to her. That after all our collective years of campaigning and awareness-raising that we cannot stop men from murdering women who once loved them. I ride for women killed by men who were husbands, ex-husbands, boyfriends, former boyfriends, sons, grandsons, fathers, brothers, uncles etc. I ride for women of all ages and am always shocked how many women are in their seventies and beyond. Some women live through decades of abuse before they are finally murdered. I ride for rich women and poor. I ride for women of all classes, ethnicities, religions and sexualities. Domestic Homicide perpetrators have no boundaries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of the men escaped justice. Some have been free to say what they like about the woman after she was dead. In this way some of the women are not technically "murdered" because a court set the man free after he killed her. I still ride for these women too. They deserve their lives to be honoured. I have been careful to say when a man has so far only been accused or when the verdict was manslaughter or aquittal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last year I opened up my rides for one day to ask women to join me in honouring the lives of all the women I've ridden for so far. Lost of women joined me in the UK and globally. It was a devastating and also magnificent day. Women felt united in an act of great solidarity against men and with other women. It was solemn, sobering and made us cry. But it also felt like a very positive thing to do. An act of remembrance. An act to honour those lost sisters. We raised over £11,000 on the day and thank you to everyone who rode, helped, donated and supported. You are absolutely amazing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This year on 11th July 2020 I'd really like women to join me - again for just one ride. It will be socially distanced due to Covid 19. It's sad that we can't ride together as we did last year but hopefully, we can still honour the women as well as we would have done. Let's celebrate their lives as well as remember the brutal way in which they were cruelly murdered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Any funds raised will again go to <a href="https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/jeanhatchetrideformurderedwomen">nia </a>(click on link) on the same fundraising page I have used for my rides for the past year. Nia are a brilliant women's sector service and their CEO Karen Ingala Smith is the phenomenal woman who first began counting women murdered in this way. She runs @countingdeadwomen and also introduced the first UK Femicide Census and I am proud to work to raise funds to help her and her brilliant organisation in keep some of the most vulnerable women in the UK alive and help them to recover from the male violence they experience. Many of these women are migrant women with no recourse to public funds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I feel powerless mostly. I do what I can. This is what I do. I can take the constant criticism and personal attacks. The abuse. The accusations. The smears. All of it. If I can honour the lives of these women and raise money to stop more women from suffering domestic abuse I will stand pretty much any of it. Women who have been abused and escaped know that we are some of the strongest women on the planet. You can't knock us down with words any longer. You can't lie about us and make us believe it too. We just keep getting back up. Those of us who lived through it will ride for those of women who didn't. Please support us or please leave us alone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>So if you would like to join us this year please can you do the following:</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1. Be a woman aged 18+</b> (This ride cannot include children, men, or those who identify as women because the women who died were female and it is important to me and the integrity of the project that only women ride for them - this is so that we draw attention to which sex is being murdered and which sex is doing the murdering. The details are too brutal for us to include children.)</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">2. Set off at 1pm.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3. Wear something red. </b>This can be a t shirt or just a ribbon. It's up to you.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">4. Carry the name of a woman from the list below. Or carry all the names if you would prefer. Please think of her as you ride. </span></b><br />
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<b>5. Where??? Choose your own route and ride as far as you are comfortable with - it doesn't matter if it is a mile or 100 miles! </b> (Note that you are responsible for your own safe riding. The rides are intended to unite us but we are responsible for ourselves as individuals as this is not a group ride. If you are riding with another person/people please follow government guidelines on social distancing.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6.</b> <b>Use a wheelchair, mobility scooter, or an indoor bike if you like.</b> We can all do this in our own way. For this year too - <b>if you can't ride a bike carry a picture of a bike and walk!</b> Take the name of a murdered woman from the list below with you and please think of her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>7. Please upload details of your ride to Twitter on the hashtag #RideForMurderedWomen</b> ... include a picture from your route if you can or of yourself riding but only if you are comfortable with this and it is safe for you to do so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks so much if you feel you can join us. I really appreciate the support.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The women I have ridden for who were murdered since 2016. We ride for you.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";">Ride #23 for Lynn Freeman who was stabbed by her partner who murdered his ex partner, Jodie Betteridge, just minutes later. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";">Ride #28 for Laura Marshall who was murdered by her ex after months of abuse. He left her in a bath of her own blood, raped and covered in bruises.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";">Ride #30 for Helen Bailey who was targeted during her grief for her dead husband and then manipulated by a new partner who then suffocated her and buried her in a cesspit under the garage – allowing police to search for her body for months. He killed her dog too and buried it alongside her. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";">Ride #31 for Leigh Ann Mahachi who was stabbed 40 times by her ex in the street outside her house. Her mother heard her screams as she died and came out to try to stop her blood with towels as her ex partner ran away. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";">Ride #37 For Natalie Hemming whose husband found out she was going to leave him and beat her to death. Her 6 year old son crept out of bed and saw his mother during the murder but was frightened he would be told off. Her husband then dumped her body face down in a wood to be found 3 weeks later and took the children to the zoo.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";">Ride #41 for Marina Erte beaten severely by her jealous ex who then drowned her by holding a shower attachment to her face.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";">Ride #42 for Marina Nolan whose ex slashed her throat and strangled her with a TV flex. He put their 2 year old son out into the street to wander then returned with 3 knives and stabbed her to death leaving her to be found by her other son. (Marina was murdered in 2002 but I was asked by her friend to honour her death)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";">Ride #44 for Dawn Rhodes. Her husband was cleared of murder. I've included her in this list because he slashed her throat. He had been stalking her, checking her phone and Facebook and found she was seeing another man. He had harassed her and her friends via Facebook posts from a fake profile. It is sad that she was the one labeled "unstable" and he walked free.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";">Ride #48 for Keziah Flux-Edmunds - aged 6. Killed by her father to torture her mother, his estranged wife. He drowned Keziah and her pet dogs and lay them all on the bed for her mother to find alongside a letter which said " You've taken everything and I will leave you with just memories."</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";">Ride #53 for Sandra Gill. There was clear evidence of past abuse at the hands of her husband and yet a coroner could not be certain that her severe head injury was inflicted by him. He said she may have "fallen off the toilet". Grown women can sit on toilets. And beds. Even when drunk.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";">Ride #59 for Charlotte Hart whose father shot her alongside her mum because her mum had left him days before. His note also said "Karma is a bitch". Charlotte's last words were "It was my dad who shot me". Brave to the last.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";">Ride #66 for Gergana Prodanova murdered by her ex-partner who was furious that she refused to go back to him and was beginning a new relationship. He put her naked body in a suitcase and dragged it through the town centre before dumping her to decompose beside a railway line. She had endured years of abuse.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";">Ride #72 for Alison Jane Farr-Davies beaten to death by her boyfriend and thrown downstairs naked. Her body was hit with such force that there was a penetrating cardia injury - similar injuries are only seen in war as a result of shrapnel, grenades, mortar bombs and explosions.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";">Ride #82 for Alice Ruggles who was stalked increasingly and relentlessly before eventually being stabbed to death by an ex partner who had already terrorised and abused her. She felt "palmed off" by police. He eventually broke in to her home and slashed her throat from ear to ear. He stabbed her at least 6 times. Even as he waited to murder her he was on his phone arranging a Tinder date for afterwards.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";">Ride #88 for Andraya Webb told her boyfriend on a night out that their relationship was over after he had been violent towards her too many times. She assured friends it would be ok for her to go home even after he had become aggressive. Her ex returned and broke into her home. He hit her with an iron. He stamped on her face so hard he left a boot mark. He poured paint down her throat and put gas canisters between her thighs before setting her on fire. She had 45 different injuries and was breathing when she was set alight. He said "Some of us have angels and some of us have demons. Tonight the demons won."</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";">Ride #91 for Claire Paton was beaten to death by her ex-partner - the excuse offered was that he had tinnitus. He also attacked her son with a nail gun after throttling her. No excuse is acceptable for killing a woman. Not even poorly ears.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";">Ride #93 for Nicola Woodman murdered on Christmas Day 2016 by her partner who stabbed her in the chest. He also battered her with a pickaxe handle. A judge told him "You are not ill. You are wicked."</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #94 for Tracy McPartland beaten to death over a 2 day period by her son who had history of abusing her. She had a total of 29 separate injuries. The judge said "she simply took the beating and did not seek help". No woman expects the child they give birth to will one day beat the life from them. It is the ultimate betrayal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Extra Ride #144 at the request of friends of Shabnam Bhardwaj who was murdered a few days ago in Himachal Pradesh in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/India?src=hash" style="color: #17507c; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #5c00a4; font-family: "times new roman";"></span><span style="color: #5c00a4;">#India</span></a> by her husband who it is alleged hung her body to look like suicide. The police initially didn’t act</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #179 for Melanie Clark murdered by her husband who stabbed her because of her love for another woman. He felt she was laughing at him. It is not an excuse to murder a woman because she ridicules your penis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #180 for Julie Owens. Another woman murdered by her son. It was the ultimate betrayal as he punched her to death. Not for the 1st time. He called it a “slap”. He initially blamed her partner who’d hit her weeks before. Poor woman beaten and betrayed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #183 for Claire Taverner whose jealous, controlling estranged husband stabbed her 10 times and left her bleeding for her two boys aged 3 and 6 to find. They sat with her body for an hour before calling police. Poor babes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #186 for Cassie Hayes. Still so fresh in our memories. Her girlfriend’s ex partner slit her throat in her workplace in lesbophobic vengeance. This is still domestic violence as he intended to leave his ex traumatised forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #187 for Claire Harris whose ex partner claimed at his trial that she fell. She was strangled with 86 injuries and half of them to her head and face. Never believe what an abuser tells you about how he didn’t mean to hurt you. He means it every time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #188 for Cheryl Gabriel-Hooper who was shot in the neck outside her home after reporting a number of incidents of domestic violence to police. A man of the same age as her ex husband is still under investigation after also suffering gunshot wounds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #190 for Paula Harris whose partner strangled her with his bare hands and then pretended he had defended himself - taking money from her account and telling builders she was “sleeping”. Abusive men lie. All the time. Listen for that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">-Ride #193 Danielle Richardson who was stabbed 15 times by her boyfriend who then jumped from a window. And lived. (I only rode 12 and a half miles as I was pretty tired out and nausea kicked in - but I did think of her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #195 for Jill Sadler whose husband got drunk and strangled her to death but was only convicted of manslaughter because the jury believed his story that she was “nasty” to him. Women who aren’t “nice” to men still don’t deserve to be killed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #214 for Samantha Clarke who was stabbed to death in her home. Her nephew arrested. The press were more focused on how much her house cost. Women who have big houses are still stabbed for being women. Not for the value of the walls they live within.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #215 for Jennifer Morgan whose partner waited for her outside her house and stabbed her to death. Her 11 year old daughter found her in a pool of blood when she returned home from school. That poor poor little girl. Lives are shattered by men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #216 for Hollie Kerrell whose had recently ended a marriage to her murderer who took revenge hitting her with a hammer and strangling her with her children in the house. Don’t ever ask “why doesn’t she leave” ...the answer lies alongside her body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #217 for Elizabeth Lacey stabbed to death by her son who was subsequently detained under mental health act. Imagine her extreme emotional pain - coping with an ill son who then came to stab her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #218 for Fiona Fisher murdered by her son with a single stab wound to the chest. He had addiction and mental health problems. But... these men still always find the women who love them to kill. Not random strangers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #219 for Faye Calliman whose husband filmed himself standing over her as she cowered beneath begging for her life before he stabbed her 12 times breaking his knife blade off in her back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #220 for Jessica Patel. Jessica endured years of control before her husband put a bag over her head and suffocated her. she had expressed concerns for a long time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #221 for Onees Khatoon strangled with electrical cable by her son because she asked him to leave her home. Men who murder women do not like women to establish boundaries<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #222 for Bernadette Green murdered by her son who smothered her after deliberately neglecting her. She weighed 5 stone down from 12 stone. She most likely spent her last months begging for food. That makes my heart ache<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #223 for Sophie Cavanagh whose estranged husband strangled her because she refused to sleep with him even though he offered her £100. Men who can’t own women, or buy them, might kill them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #224 for Angela Conoby who lived with a man for 30 years before he stabbed her in chest +neck and left her covered and decomposing for 2 weeks in a corner of the room. How many years of terror? All that life lost...unlikely to be “out of the blue”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #225 for Keely McGrath who was murdered just before Christmas. She leaves behind her 5 children and heartbroken mum<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #226 for Laura Mortimer whose ex partner stabbed her 18 times because angry she had asked him to leave. He also stabbed her daughter Ella and left them lying alongside each other. He had attacked her the previous Christmas and had a violent past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #227 for Ella Mortimer age 11 stabbed 24 times in the face and neck by her step father as she came to help her mother Laura who was also stabbed to death. They lay side by side together in pools of blood when found.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #228 for Denise Rosser whose partner beat her so viciously she had 28 rib fractures, a punctured lung, fractured skull and torn kidney and it was said “only consistent with a single impact like a car crash” Some men are like a car crash for women..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #229 for Joanne Bishop stabbed 28 times with a screwdriver in her chest and back. She lived for 4 days after the attack. He showed “no remorse”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #230 for Lamduan Seekanya. Murdered in 2004 but body only just identified. She was left in a remote area of pen-y-ghent. Police need help to find her killer. She was not a “Thai Bride”. She was a woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #232 for Marie Gibson. Her partner beat her with a baseball bat and stabbed her in the neck with a shard of glass. She died of brain and severe facial injuries. He said she “goaded him”. Women are not to blame for men killing them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #234 for Klarissa-Charlene Faith whose ex-partner trusted him enough to continue to live in the same house. He took her on an errand then brought her home and strangled her to death. Abusers are always potential murderers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #236 for Lorna Myers stabbed to death by her son who also attempted to murder her other son. He was “paranoid”. He also had a a previous conviction for battering a partner. Forget paranoia. That’s woman hating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #237 for Patricia Franks. Her husband killed her with a scaffolding pole then smothered her because she had dementia and he couldn’t cope. Men never have the right to make those decisions to kill women out of “mercy”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #239 for Sheila Thomas who left her husband who then stabbed her in the head and neck and bludgeoned her head with a stick until it broke. She had left him for a man she had known since 1975 and could have been - and deserved to be - happy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #263 for Nazia Ali today. Her story is horrific. Her ex husband bought ropes, knives, hammer and screwdriver especially to kill her. He used them to tie her up and beat and stab her to death while her children slept then calmly called police<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: medium;">Ride #265 for Lynn Forde killed by her boyfriend who then killed himself. He had strangled her then killed himself after ringing police to confess. So many of these abusers do this. Always kill the woman first just to be sure she doesn’t live happily<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #14171a; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">An extra ride #286 for Amanda Champion who was brutally murdered in 2003 by James Ford who is now hailed as a “hero” after </span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-focusable="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LondonBridgeAttack?src=hashtag_click" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1b95e0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">#LondonBridgeAttack</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #14171a; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ...he strangled disabled Amanda and slit her throat. He was on day release from a life sentence. He is not a hero. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #287 for Angela Mittal whose husband stabbed her 59 times. The 1st knife broke. So he fetched another. He said “She was going to leave me. I couldn’t let that happen”. Abusers feel they own women... forever. Women need massive help escaping them</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #288 for June Jones who was strangled +stabbed multiple times in the neck and chest by her ex partner who left her wrapped in a rug in her own bathtub. He left a knife on top of her. She was found approx 21 days later after sister reported her missing</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #289 for Charlotte Huggins whose ex boyfriend stabbed her in the back. A few days earlier he held a knife to her stomach. She called him a nutcase. If men get knives out ...they mean it. They know what they’re doing. He was jealous of her new start</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #290 for Jay Edmunds who was burned to death in her own home with a friend by an ex partner who returned after planning and buying petrol, a knife, waterproof matches. He was determined. She hoped for a new life and he killed them all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #291 for 76 yr old Sandy Seagrave who died 2 days ago trying to save the life of a woman named only “Amy” so far..being attacked in the street by an ex partner. Sandy was bludgeoned to death with her own walking stick and “Amy” died too. Salute Sandy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #292 for Amy Appleton who was murdered on 22nd Dec 2019. A man “known to her” has been arrested but is in hospital. Sandy Seagrave a neighbour had come to her aid but was also beaten to death. This is not an “isolated incident” as police report.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #293 for Simbiso Aretha Moula who was murdered by “compression to the neck” in her sofa before the suspected murderer - her husband - hung himself. Never first. These abusive and cowardly men always take the beautiful woman’s life first.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #295 for Asma Begum whose husband stabbed her 58 times until shards of the blade of his knife broke off in her face such was the ferocity. He wanted £200 for gambling. Murderous men always want something. Usually the death of a woman.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #296 for Luz Margory Isaza Villegas who was beaten, strangled, shoved in a suitcase and burned by her obsessive, jealous husband.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #297 for Alison Hunt whose obsessive ex partner stabbed her 18 times in the head, chest and neck after knocking at her door. Her daughter was asleep upstairs. She bled to death on her own doorstep. He was already with another woman - no more I hope.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #298 for Christy Walshe whose ex boyfriend shot her dead - in the face. That takes some enormous hatred of a woman. Men who abuse women hate them hard. He also shot himself. But not with enough commitment sadly. He will serve 26 yrs minimum</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #299 for Mary Annie Sowerby who was devoted to her son. Nevertheless he took a large kitchen knife and stabbed her to death as she watched television in a brutal attack. Poor Annie. The most horrific betrayal</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #300 for Maggie Smythe whose ex partner murdered her and then enlisted his brother to help him dismember her body and leave her under rubble. Her head has never been found</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #301 for Mary Page killed by her son who was annoyed because she was drunk. He kicked her in the face and then beat her with a bedside table. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and it was accepted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #302 for Rosie Darbyshire whose boyfriend hit her 50+ times with a crowbar. Her family were worried about him so she made an application to police to see if he had history of violence. He did but they hadn’t told her when he killed her 11 days later.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #303 for Aliny Mendes whose ex husband stabbed her repeatedly in the street in front of her 3 yr old daughter. She died as female friends watched. She was on her way to pick up her other 3 children from school. She’d said he would come for her + he did </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #304 for Sarah Henshaw whose ex partner hit her repeatedly with a claw hammer and then strangled her with a vacuum cleaner cord while she was still conscious. He left the cord round her neck and threw himself off a bridge but lived.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #305 for Dorothy Bowyer stabbed to death by her Grandson including 5 wounds to her chest and one to her mouth. He shouted “she’s a witch, she’s a witch”. This isn’t illness it’s misogyny. He also stabbed her mountain rescue dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #306 for Elize Stevens whose partner stabbed her 86 times because he feared she would leave him. It is never ok to ask “why doesn’t she just leave” .... this is all the answers</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #307 for Laureline Garcia-Bertaux whose ex-partner strangled her to death then went to buy an axe and bags to dispose of her body which was found naked, bound and wrapped in bin bags in a shallow grave. He then lied extensively and texted her friends.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #308 for Giselle-Marimon-Herrera whose ex partner strangled and suffocated her to death. He also raped and murdered her 15 yr old daughter Allison. He even killed their dog. Then hung himself. I hope Giselle didn’t know about Allison</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #14171a; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #310 for Dr Joan Francisco at the request of her friend.</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #14171a; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The brilliant and successful Joan was strangled by her obsessive ex boyfriend in 1994 and her loved ones had to fight for 5 years to bring him to justice. They never gave up</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #312 for Alison McKenzie - stabbed to death by her son who had previously tried to kill her. He was a paranoid schizophrenic. Imagine the pain of her life loving him and fearing him. Only for him to murder her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #314 for Barbara Heywood aged 80. Her husband stabbed her many times and told police “she’s been a bad woman and I just want you to take her away”. You were a good woman Barbara Heywood - let that be recorded here</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #315 for Paula Meadows aged 83 whose husband murdered her then killed himself because she had dementia. He didn’t have a right to make that decision for her. The press focused on him because wealthy Concorde pilot and they were wealthy. Still a murderer</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #316 for Anna Reed whose boyfriend strangled her and her body was covered in many cuts and fractures. He claimed “sex game gone wrong”. He is charged with murder. It’s always murder not a game if you kill a woman. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #317 for Sarah Fuller whose boyfriend strangled her to death after a night out. She had texted her friend to say “Hun everything is ok” just before he killed her. Women often don’t know the imminent danger of an abusive man. That isn’t their fault</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #318 for Siama Riaz whose jealous husband stabbed her 75 times. One knife broke so he used 3 more. He had tried to behead her and cut off her hand. She had been trying desperately to escape his abuse. His family had interrogated her before her murder</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #319 for Sammy-Lee Lodwig whose “boyfriend” slashed her throat and stabbed her in the chest deep enough to enter her lungs after gagging her and tying her up. He’d previously dated her mother. Brutal man ripping through the lives of women.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #320 for Amy Parsons viciously murdered by her trans partner because she did not want sex with him whilst he was dressed in women’s underwear. She intended to leave him which made him angry. He beat her repeatedly with an iron bar as she showered</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #321 for Lauren Griffiths sho was found dead at her flat. Her boyfriend is awaiting trial. She was only 21. Almost her whole adult life stolen.</span></span></div>
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Jean Hatchethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17366431067037109280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370704414807518712.post-85115855486896793072020-06-12T13:32:00.001+01:002020-06-12T13:33:11.527+01:00How did you leave an abusive relationship?<h2>
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For a woman there is a time she doesn’t really think she HAS to leave and the tipping point where she does. She knows that staying will kill her. One way or another. <a href="https://femicidescensus.org/">The Femicide Census</a> shows us that 41% of women killed by a partner/ex had separated or taken steps to separate, with 30% of them killed within the first month and 70% killed within the first year. The danger for women who work out they must leave is real and it is imminent. The following is not a definitive list or an accurate guide as all women are different and all circumstances vary. This is based upon my own experience and shared in the hope that it helps other women. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">First part practical. </span></b></h3>
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Many women being abused by men daydream. Inside their head they go to a place where he isn’t and conjure up a life for themselves that is not with him. They open up that dream often in order to cope. They use it to escape to. I did. I had a little flat all picked out. My chair was by the window and I could see right across the city as I wrote stories. My friend Helen would knock at the door and come in and I would smile and we would chat. I never knew how I would get to this place. I couldn’t make it real and I believed for a long time that I never would. Often his voice would wake me from the lovely daydream. It felt brutally cold to have to come back to the real world and the all-too-real him. His snarling twisted face issuing commands and destroying everything I was and wanted to be. Every time I felt like crying that I couldn’t stay in the dream and I couldn’t make it happen. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So, what about when you decide? What about when you think you really have to get away from him? What goes through your mind? You may need to make a leap of faith and trust the bits in pink. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">(I think I could carry on forever here. There are so many conversations you would like to have with an abused woman. I hope these ones help.)</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Some people hate this kind of outpouring and sharing of our experiences. Women did it in the seventies and it is still powerful today however many stories we read. It is a political act to say out loud what men have done to us. Women have no obligation to keep the secrets of those men. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">This isn’t a full account of what happened to me. It’s an account of how I worked to make it stop for me. The memories may not always be in the correct chronological order as we forget. There are lots of things we don’t remember and every abused woman is grateful for that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The eternal question is “why doesn’t she just leave?” Or as Baroness Nicholson said, I was “crazy to stay”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I nearly left abuse many times. I have slept in my car. I have slept in the spare bedrooms of friends. I have gone to my brother’s. I always went back. For all of the reasons listed above in this article. All of these things were questions I asked myself every time. Without help you might ask yourself these questions forever. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Don’t forget that abused women rarely get time to breathe and think. Every moment of an abused woman’s life she is thinking of him. Of his reactions to what she is doing. She tries to stay one step ahead. She is always guessing what he will find she has done wrong. What he will criticise. What will “set him off”. The answer once you’re out is easy. It’s nothing. There is nothing you can do, or not do to stop him. He is going to abuse you whatever moves you make to try to avoid it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Many of us walk out. Then, often, go back again. We walk off in the night desperate and crying and we return when the tears dry up or our temporary bravery does. We go to friends or family and go back the next day. Mostly because we just aren’t ready or we just don’t know what is happening to us. No, you often don’t actually know the first time the fist connects. It isn’t one light bulb moment. It’s many. It can take years of the most horrific physical, sexual and mental abuse until you finally know you must leave. This is all discussed elsewhere. This is some of what happened to me in case it helps a woman to recognise that she is being abused and gives her hope. I hope it also lets women know that they need feel no shame for the things they did to survive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">When you look around you and think you can bear it no more. You consider the basics. What do I need? Many women don’t get much further. Because you need a place to live for you and children if you have them and you need money. It stops most women in their tracks. You can go to family if you have some perhaps. But mine were old. Or didn’t really understand what was happening to me. Or blamed me for staying. Or just blamed me. “What’s a strong woman like you putting up with that for?” (My aunt) or “you’ve made your bed you have to lie in it” (My brother). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">So, let’s look at some of my failed attempts. I won’t count the times on holidays when I would try to leave, he was always the worst on a holiday. I once or twice went to reception and got myself a separate room while he slept off his nasty buzz and the next morning I would go back. I would apologise. Because I just wanted to have a nice holiday. Sometimes he would act like I hadn’t even left. I would play along. So many of the times when you have an inkling you should leave, you just want it to be “normal”. You know it is his fault but doubt yourself and think it might be a bit yours. You know he’s a beast but people also say you are “difficult”. (FYI, it is “difficult” being with an abuser and your reactions are sometimes to fight back. It is ok. Do not feel guilty for this. It makes you a survivor not an abuser). But you think you can turn the corner of it. You can make it ok. It is down to you to work harder. Be less sensitive. Drink less yourself, to cope when he is drunk. Not talk back. Not talk about things he doesn’t like. Not wear the things he hates. Not talk to strangers. Be more interesting. Wear sexier clothes. Look prettier. Laugh more. On and on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Once he went on a bender in the afternoon and came back drunk and banging on the windows making threats and I was terrified to let him in. I called the police. They attended and he obviously stopped when they arrived. They asked me to open the door. I remember the policeman saying “He’s just sat here quietly now eating his chips. Can’t he come in?” I refused. I knew what would come. So they agreed to take him off to his friend’s house. The next day he came back. My daughter was 3 months old. I looked at her. I wondered what would happen to her. How I would raise her alone. The copper should have helped me. He did not. The next day social services called and said that if this happened again they would need to investigate me to see if I was providing a stable environment. I was terrified. He held this over me. He repeated “they will take your daughter from you” for a decade. I believed it. Why wouldn’t I?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">You consider getting a job. He says you aren’t fit for work. Who would employ you as you are lazy? You weren’t good at your last job. For me I was a teacher. A really good one. When my daughter was injured at nursery before she was one years old, I fell apart. I felt I couldn’t go back and leave her and he had made me feel guilty for what had happened to her. If I didn’t want her to be hurt again, I should be with her always. He said I should work in the family business. I agreed and handed in my notice. Overnight I then had no way to leave as all my independent resources had gone. I had no way to support myself. Or so I thought. I could have left at this point. The house was half mine. I could have got maintenance. Etc etc. But you can’t think that far ahead. Especially if you don’t know you are being abused. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">When I joined a playgroup with her, my daughter made friends and it was obvious to me that I was different to these women. They had kind, successful husbands who turned up to children’s parties with them and didn’t get drunk. None of them liked my husband who looked exactly as he was. Scowling, ugly and unkempt. But they looked down their noses at me too. I felt ashamed to be with him. He is coarse and he is stupid. I used to make excuses for this. That he was funny and likeable. He isn’t. He’s just stupid and arrogant. He would tell me how clever he was. I believed him. When I confided in these women how he was treating me, they didn’t help me. They judged me. One of them said she couldn’t allow her children to come to my house any more. She was sorry for me but it wasn’t safe for them. I understand now. But at the time it was humiliating. I felt dirty and ashamed. I gradually stopped seeing them all. When this happened I saw it as me and him again. I had to make it work. I had to unite with him. I was “part of it”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I won’t discuss the sexual stuff and the humiliation – though this is often the very worst part. I just don’t want to share it. I don’t want that record here for my daughter or husband to see. But please know that most women experience routine sexual violence and humiliation when being abused. It takes many years to process this aspect. It is the thing we bury down deepest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Can I say first of all we don’t always have perfect recollections of our abuse. It is really hard to remember some things and it is hard to remember the order of events. Or the exact dates. This is common with a trauma response. When my abuser punched me hard and broke a number of my ribs one night, I think it was autumn 1999. I had just moved in with him. I took myself off to the hospital the next morning in shock. I didn’t tell them what had happened. I rang work and didn’t tell them either. I can’t remember now what excuse I made. I think I said I fell. I went straight from the hospital back to his. He didn’t really acknowledge what he had done. He was sorry I had “got hurt” but after all “you were shouting at me and pulled at my shirt”. I could still see the fist, flying into me with his full weight behind it. I had grabbed his shirt to hold myself up,, try to stop him. But I still questioned myself. I became quiet. He looked after me. I didn’t leave. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">So, the years passed. I pinned it eventually to a six-week cycle. He would explode quickly and violently. Not always physically but sometimes. There would be a tirade of name-calling and insults, swearing and smashing things. He might grab my face or throat. Punch a wall or a door. Throw something near me. Drag pictures from walls. Overturn chairs. Once he urinated on my daughter’s toys after I had left the room. Then he would be sorry. He was drunk; stressed; money worries; pushed into it by me; jealous; provoked; abused as a child; abused by police and prison services. I heard them all over the years. He would promise to change. He would buy something nice. A watch, a car, a ring, a holiday, a camera. I had some very nice things after being abused. Then he would begin to wind it up again slowly over the weeks. The odd criticism. Something I’d forgotten to do. Something I wore or bought. I was on my phone after 8pm and he felt neglected. I drew up a ‘bucket list’ and this was selfish. I wanted to see family and this was selfish. I didn’t want sex and this was frigid. I didn’t agree with a political point and this was stupid. I began to watch myself. I worried about doing things wrong but I didn’t know what. I checked for things I thought he might “find’ to hold against me. I cooked food he might like. He never did. I said things he might like. Things I did not believe. About myself. About friends. About the news. Anything and everything to placate. But it would happen anyway. Almost on the dot. He would drink, a comment would ignite him. The attack would come. The crying and pleading and trying to keep my daughter quiet. None of it worked. On and on the cycle went. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">For years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Until around 2008 I decided I’d had enough. Each night he was coming home drunk and I hid away downstairs when he got home. I started trying to connect with old friends and people online. Each night I would wait until he fell asleep drunk and then I would go up to the lounge and sit quietly on the sofa hoping he wouldn’t wake up but knowing I had to be there when he did. Often, I’d fall asleep before he woke. When I opened my eyes there would be violent porn on the TV. He did this to wake me. He would just smile as he watched it. I would retreat to bed and pretend to be sleeping when he came up. It was vile. The six-week cycle now included this new hell. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">At this point some friends from my youth who live in Greece asked me to come to them for a break. I hadn’t told them much. They are kind and wonderful people. I was desperate. I decided to go. I had to lie horribly. My best friend covered for me. I didn’t know what would happen beyond getting away. I booked a flight. I lied and said I was going on an exam marking course. I knew I would have to leave my daughter behind for now. He would never let me take her. But I was making plans to get us both out. I’d also managed to get a job behind his back. I just needed the space to breathe and I couldn’t do that around him. I ran away in the middle of a blizzard and drove to the airport. I had only just landed when his phone call came. He knew where I was, he said. He had opened my bank statements. He had called the police. I had not even made it to my friend. I called home but he would not let me speak to my daughter. He just hurled abuse at me. Threatened to kill me and my friend. Said he was coming over. That I was a slag. That he had checked my drawers and knew what underwear I had taken and this was proof I was cheating on him. I was terrified. I held it together in front of my friends who were kind beyond measure. They tried to help me plan. They fed me and hugged me and told me I could come to them anytime. That’s what Greeks do. They make a fuss of you with food and generosity. The police called. He had reported my car missing and asked them to find me. I explained I knew where my car was and told them where I was. They said they would prosecute him for wasting police time if he persisted. I wonder now why they didn’t ask more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">My friend Helen called me. She said he had been to her house crying and pleading with her to get me to come home. She was frightened but stood up for me and said it was my business to decide where I lived and went. She told me that when I came home to come directly to hers. She didn’t trust him. I was terrified. I went to her. He called me as I sat shaking in her kitchen not knowing what to do. He had already called my friends’ home in Greece and threatened to kill one of them. He told me to come home and it would all be ok. That it could all be sorted. That he would leave my friends alone and that I was going to be safe. That my daughter needed me. So, I went home. I stood up for myself and said it was over. That I wanted to leave. He refused to let me and said he would leave instead. I breathed a huge sigh of relief as he left. But he hadn’t really gone. It was all a lie. Over the next few months there was an onslaught of stalking and control. He hacked my computer. He even stole it in the end. Thre was threat after threat. Endless texts and calls. The police cautioned him but nothing more. I had no freedom. He still saw me as his. Over the weeks he wore me down. I was tired, confused, anxious and suffering trauma I didn’t understand. My daughter was young and wanted a “normal” family. Eventually, I’m afraid I agreed to try again. He came home with promises to be different. I tried to keep the job and the friends I’d built up. He gradually tore it all up again. Within weeks the abuse began all over again and so very much worse this time. I was hospitalised unconscious after he threw me to the ground in the street one night. The day before he had visited a prostitute and left his phone on in his pocket after dialling me. He was arrested. I looked at the state of my life. I had nothing financially if he went to jail. I did not know how I would live. I refused to support the prosecution even though there was an eye witness who had seen him attack me. The police accepted this. Why did they? I wonder now why they didn’t help me. I was abused. They had seen me in the street unconscious with him standing over me. I needed help. No one should have listened to me protect him. They should have banged him up no matter what I said. They released him. I had to go and pick him up from the cells. When they brought him out a police officer walked him back to the car and looked in at me. I smiled weakly. He did not come up to the car. He simply walked away. When the abuser got back in the car he said “Do you know what he was checking for? He was checking you to see if he needed to commit you for reporting me! HE thinks you are insane. If you had made a fuss, he would have taken you to the psych ward.” I was terrified. I know now the officer was checking to see how I behaved and if I was scared. He didn’t check closely enough. I’ll never forgive him for that. The abuser came home. I was back in jail with him again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I did terrible things to survive. I did anything I could to try to feel like I was human. But I wasn’t human anymore. I was a robot. I was just going through the motions. I felt I’d had my chance and I blew it. He severed my ties with the friends in Greece with his threats of violence towards them after stalking their Facebook profiles. He eventually cut off my best friend Helen by saying she took advantage of me and didn’t like me really. He said my other friends hated me. Everyone hated me. I was lost. I’ve written about all this before. I will not apologise for the awful things I did to survive and to please him. I will not apologise. But women should not throw those things in my face. I have seen that recently. If you think that the worst thing, I did was spout his nasty politics and really briefly join the Tory Party to appease him and get him to show me respect, I’ll tell you this… I did far worse to destroy myself. Being with that man and smiling in his face and watching him turn me into a puppet for his fun. The shame of that never leaves you. You are shameful women indeed if you use a woman’s abuse to hurt her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">In 2012 I began listening to a woman I met online. She was a feminist. She told me I was being abused. She told me how. She was always listening and always telling me to leave. I think now she just liked being bossy about it all. I was her project. But she gave me the number of a women’s service and for that I must always be grateful. By early 2013 I could stand it no longer. I called the women of VIDA in Sheffield. They talked to me a lot. They put me on a 12-week course. I kid you not I turned up to the first one in a Range Rover and designer clothes. I thought, “I shouldn’t really be here. These women aren’t like me. I’m not really being abused. He’s just difficult. I can change him” . Etc etc. I was a bit of an arse all round at that time but I was also being abused. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">After that first session I knew I was exactly like every woman in that room. We were all very different women and we were all exactly the same. After 2 weeks it was clear I was in such trauma and danger that they appointed me an IDVA. The abuser once called in the middle of a session and I literally melted in tears and fear. The support worker took me into a separate room and that was my awakening. I knew I was programmed. I was his entirely. I had no freedom to think or feel or be anywhere he didn’t know about. I met some incredible survivors on that course. Some terrible stories. All with hideous men. Some were already free, some like me were still trapped, and some eventually left the course and went back to him. I hope they are free now. I really hope all of them are alive and free. If you get on a course please keep going. Please trust them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I wasn’t ready to try to leave again at this point. I kept going to see the IDVA but I still needed to plan and think. In order to get to these meetings, I had to tell him that I was seeing a therapist to “become a better wife”. Yes, I actually said that ,and he seemed so happy with it. The woman who had pushed me to attend the course promised to be there for me. She said I could bring my daughter and we could go to her house whenever I was ready and I could take it from there. She would support me. She kept begging me to leave. She upset me at one point saying she knew that my daughter was doomed to have an abusive future herself if I stayed. I hate her still for saying this. It didn’t help me. One night after he got drunk and was verbally abusive, I called him a bully and he went crazy. I went up to bed. It wasn’t such a bad incident compared to some of them. But he must have seen a change in me. He saw some strength back. Some fire in my eyes. I should have known not to show him the things I was learning. The next morning, I came down to find the largest carving knife we owned on the bookcase at the side of the door where he would stand to smoke. I knew what the knife was for. I knew what he had been thinking and luckily for me he did not follow through. But I waited for him to go to work and I packed my things according to the plan I’d been given by the IDVA. I texted the woman to say I was ready to come and was it still ok. She didn’t reply. I was anxious. I then emailed her and didn’t get an answer. But she had promised me. She was my lifeline. Something gnawed in my gut. I collected my daughter from school and drove to the shop for a treat for her. While I was in the supermarket a text came back. The woman had thought again. She had to protect her family. She thought he was too dangerous. Especially the thing with the knife and that she simply couldn’t take me in after all. I sank to the floor. I had never had a panic attack before. I sank to the floor in the door of the shop and I am not exaggerating when I say I made my way back to the car on my knees and hyperventilating. I was in shock. I sat and cried but had to pull myself together for my daughter. I went back. Where else could I go? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">It was a month or so later that I finally threw him out. I knew he would kill me if I didn’t. The night before he had been out all night drinking and taking cocaine. He told me, and I can still see his face, “women are only good for 2 things, sex and cooking and you aren’t providing me with either so what’s the point of you?” I knew. I just knew that this was the day I had to stand up. He said he still expected me to go to lunch with him with his parents. I went and all the time I knew. I was ending it. I cried outside during the meal. I went back inside and tears kept running down my face but no one said a thing. I got back in his care and I was numb. My daughter was with me when we entered the house and my strength came from somewhere. I said “You have to leave. I don’t want to call the police but you do have to leave.” My daughter was screaming and crying and clinging to him. But I stayed firm and repeated myself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">He stormed out. I think he probably expected to be back the next day. He commanded me to book him a room in a hotel. I did. I was still being controlled. The next day he said it wasn’t a good enough hotel room and I should get another. I was still being controlled. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I took him in briefly in at one low point for me a year after this when he was becoming worrying in his addictions and I felt I had to help him for the sake of my daughter. Incidentally she begged me not to. She had realised life was much better without him around. It was a foolish move and I was soon hoping to die again. I became depressed with him around. I stopped being able to speak much. He eventually left again. I think he felt he had won at this point. He found a new woman. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The abuse didn’t completely stop. It never does. But I was free. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I found my Helen again and I loved her so hard. We were inseparable and went all over the place together. Oh the laughter. I met Sidekick. We got married. I lost Helen to cancer. I got cancer. Life is up and down. Life is still life after you’ve been abused. It isn’t suddenly perfect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">But I smile every single day at the sky that I am now free to look at and I am free under it. The bike that I am free to ride. The things I am free to say. Like this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jean Hatchethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17366431067037109280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370704414807518712.post-60780850095038131712020-05-03T17:12:00.001+01:002020-05-03T17:21:56.268+01:00From Chris Ashton - at End Abuse<span style="color: red;">I'm hosting this post because Chris Ashton does not have her own blog and is usually too busy helping abused women to spend time blogging. I'm sorry she has been subjected to an attack this morning and because I love her I'm proud to host her response here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I have a company (shock, horror)that does all the stuff that you can find on my bio on twitter @apurrpurr , if anyone wants to know more feel free to contact me.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I worked in the domestic abuse sector in Wigan for 30+ years running refuges, helplines, MARACS and IDVA services, developing DV courses, drop in centres, educational back to work programs, supporting women through family courts,(yes we have been battling the family courts for this long) gaining protection orders and more I could go on but it would take me too long and I really can’t be arsed. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I opened 'End Abuse' last year, and yes my name is the only one on the documents, but you should have no doubt that other very passionate campaigners are involved. End Abuse is a service delivery organisation not a training group. The accounts are not yet due, but will be freely available to anyone who wants to see them via Companies House. The intention is to register with the Charity Commissioners, and had COVID-19 not reared its ugly head, it more than likely would have been completed by now, but our priority is the work we do with victims and their children. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>At the moment because of the increased risk they need us more than ever and is more important than the completion of registration documents. The women we work with really don’t give a monkeys how we are registered so long as we can support them into safety.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I have, since it opened financially, supported the work done there using my own personal finances. This is not something that I would normally make public, I really don't need or covet the adulation or the glory. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The reason I opened End Abuse was initially to fill the gaps in service provision, you know, not just sitting there and moaning about it, but actually finding solutions, campaigning for fairer treatment for victims and to develop services directly for children.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>These are solutions that have actually worked so well that we are inundated with referrals from larger agencies who are funded to provide services and women needing the support and services they cannot find elsewhere. This is why End Abuse is fundraising for additional funds. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>This does not make us popular, but hey, if you don't protect victims and are on occasion complicit in their abuse then we will call you out and intervene. Whomever or however powerful you think you are. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The beer Stella Artois has frequently been called "Wife Beater". Men jokingly ask for a pint of "wife beater" and there are vague mythical qualities attached to the beer. There are frequent mutterings of something "chemical" in the drink which makes men hit women in their homes when they return.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is utter nonsense. If there were any proof of this at all it would not be on supermarket shelves or pumps on the bars of pubs. It is a man that beats a woman in a situation where he is abusing her. He is responsible for that in every case.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes he may use a bottle or a glass as an instrument of his assault or murder. The alcoholic liquid inside him, of whatever brand, does not kill or assault the woman. He does. It is a choice he makes sober. It is a choice he makes drunk. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A man may drink and may be drunk at the time he hits or attacks with an implement and/or murders a woman because it may make him bolder in his abuse and less fearful of potential consequences. In the moment he has no fear or inhibition. But his abuse is not of the moment. Abuse is not usually encapsulated in a single moment. It will not be confined to a drinking session or its aftermath. It will have been weeks, months, years of ongoing incidents while the man is both sober and drunk.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 2018 <a href="https://femicidescensus.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Femicide-Census-Report-on-2018-Femicides-.pdf">Femicide Census</a> notes that "femicide is best understood as an act of ultimate control rather than a loss of control". This means that observing, as some commentators and journalists do, that drink makes men "lose control" and that is why they hit women is dangerously inaccurate for a number of reasons. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This removes the entire surrounding framework of men's domestic abuse of women from consideration. This suggests there is a chemical causation which eliminates structural male violence against women. Men escape responsibility for their violent behaviour towards women. They may "use" booze but they deliberately choose the woman in their own life to abuse. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If a man enjoys hitting a woman and enjoys drinking there is no reason why he shouldn't enjoy those two things together. Is there? Especially if one allows him to excuse the other. He might even actively seek to enjoy them together. If men didn't "enjoy" or gain positive feelings from hitting the women in their lives they would probably stop. As stated above - it is an act of ultimate control to kill a woman. It is an act of control to abuse her. Suggesting that men don't make that choice but are instead "slaves" to booze which makes them beat women gives rise to the obvious question of ...why don't they hit their best friend at the bar instead before they get home? Or their boss at the Christmas do? Lots of them hate their boss if their claims of work as a reason they beat women is also true. Why do they not immediately hit the barman who calls time on their drinking session?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If the message to men is that the booze is to blame not them. They will keep on boozing and abusing. It's all in the timing isn't it? Then they will stand back and hold up their hands in abdication of responsibility. Sometimes those hands will be covered in a woman's blood. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Simultaneously, if an abused woman is regularly told, and therefore thinks, that the drink is to blame she will keep believing him when he says he can change. She will stay. She will be part of his fictitious cycle where he promises to stop drinking and then everything will be fine. He will direct her to how nice he is "most of the time until I have a drink... you know this love". Until the next time he hits her. It is then perfectly possible that she will also blame the drink. Because he has primed her to do so. He has "saved" his act of violent abuse UNTIL he is drunk. It is part of the gaslighting sequence.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is the "next morning" apology to back up this myth. The man will apologise and blame the drink. She will believe him because this is how it happened last time. He may stop drinking for a while and behave better. All of this reinforces the idea that the drink was the issue. It prolongs her deciding to seek help and/or leave. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The really clever abuser will go further than that. He will say it is because "they" were drinking. That she also needs to stop drinking with him so that he doesn't hit her again. That she provokes him when she is drunk and that is why he hits her. The abused woman will believe him and do as commanded. It feels supportive. She will count herself to blame also, if she had, perhaps, been drinking. She therefore inadvertently shares the blame for his abuse of her. If she drinks or he does and he hits her .... she has been primed to believe the drink or herself is to blame. Not of course him. She won't ever question why she doesn't become violent when drinking. She hasn't time to do this while fighting his constant gaslighting. She may even have fought back. She may therefore feel guilty of "similar". He will reinforce this self-doubt and take advantage of it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The <a href="https://femicidescensus.org/">Femicide Census</a> also shows us more about these men to consider. 56% of women murdered by men in 2018 were in incidences of overkilling. This is where more than one method of killing is used. If a man was simply drunk and "spontaneously" violent, would he have sufficient capacity to find more than one implement? Would he - as in some cases - spend days sourcing the implements to kill a partner or ex partner? Would he be drunk the whole time? Or only some of it? Would he open a few beers when he was ready and then take out the large knife, the axe and the rope he had spent days obtaining? In these cases it is obvious that drink makes little contribution to his planning or the eventual murder. Drink might be used to gain "courage" but the motivation is the man's desire to kill a woman not his desire to drink alcohol. According to the Femicide Census report for 2018, of 147 perpetrators of Femicide (not all murdered are in a domestic context) only 24 had problematic substance abuse issues. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This idea of a man who hits a woman when drinking also takes no consideration of other forms of abuse of women which are no less harmful or easy to escape from. Coercive control including emotional abuse and financial abuse are not committed only because a man has been drinking. These are careful practices of the abuser. He will be calling her names, accusing her of sleeping with other men, telling her she is a bad mother etc etc throughout the day. This won't be an "isolated incident" when he has cracked open a can of beer or poured the Merlot a bit freely. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course a man may become more belligerent when drunk. Drink lowers inhibitions in many ways. But the abuser is already abusive. He will be abusive in many different ways and at many different times of day. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What about the abuser who is not with his victim? The stalkers and harassers and the ones who text threats and the ones who carry those threats out? Their behaviour isn't induced by alcohol. It is committed by men who use alcohol and those who don't.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Abusive men in a lockdown situation are now in the house with few opportunities to leave and some are drinking alcohol. Women are seeking help in growing numbers. This is to be expected with or without the men drinking increasing levels of alcohol. Women are now subject to all the many and varied forms of abuse for longer periods of time, more frequently and with less access to support systems - which includes friends and family alongside women's services. His abuse hasn't suddenly flowed out of a bottle or from a lockdown policy. It was there. The man just had less opportunity to control the woman's movements. He had less access to her in some cases. She had some periods without him if she was able to work or if he did. Some women can now see more clearly what he was able to shield or hide or keep to a managed cycle which kept her permanently disorientated. Some women have finally realised what their future looks like with him more starkly. Some women are unable to accept the increased level of his violent and/or coercive behaviour. Other women are accessing help because his behaviour has escalated. In some cases that may be because his inhibitions have been removed by alcohol. It can also be that his inhibitions are removed by the fact that he may not be as easily detected if she never leaves his sight. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He may be wondering what has he got to lose? He might die anyway. Men in war/battle historically have seen the rape and assault of women as a right of soldiers. A current sense of siege mentality might escalate his behaviour. A woman who had been pondering her abuse and her exit might be more acutely aware that this is the time she is most at threat. Her mind has been focused in a way that it hasn't before with the many life distractions that normally surround her. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those who have never experienced abuse might be learning about it for the first time. I know it seems many in government are. It is almost like women's organisation haven't been screaming themselves blue in the face for decades. Male journalists are tagging it into articles because it seems a bit zeitgeisty and click worthy. Lockdown has suddenly made them see the abused women behind the closed doors. Yet they never saw those women when they were out on the streets bleeding to death with 86 knife wounds to the head. At a rate of one every four days. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I initially posted my objections to this video last night and since doing so I have received hundreds of tweets from men telling me I should not object to this video because "IT WAS A JOKE".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An excellent blog here by Shonagh Dillon explains quite clearly why domestic abuse is not a joke. I won't repeat her words. She runs a domestic abuse organisation and she has said this far more effectively than I ever could. Please read it.</span> <a href="https://www.aurorand.org.uk/news/covid19-reveals-epidemic-male-violence-against-women/">Covid19 and domestic abuse epidemic</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">However - what also worries me is what this has uncovered about the men who are appearing on my Twitter timeline - and probably yours - in their hundreds. These men are unable to see the link between their perception of this video as "A JOKE!!!!" and the reality of the scale of domestic abuse in this country where women are murdered by men they know at, on average, a rate of one every 4 days. These men can utterly divorce the two things. This is deeply worrying. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These things cannot be parted. If you laugh at the thought of a man hitting a woman then you either are a man who would hit a woman, or you are a man who condones other men hitting women. It is that simple. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many men and women are horrified. They see that the video has the potential to normalise domestic abuse even if it does not directly incite it. I think it will have incited some men to hit some women. This boxer is clearly popular. Men and young boys idolise him. So has he incited violence? Undoubtedly. However, men who abuse women rarely need incitement - either by other men or by being forced to stay home with them as a result of CoVid19. The virus is not the issue. The video is not the issue. Epidemic levels of violence against women is the issue. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many men don't even need to be isolated with the woman they abuse. They can stalk and harass her from a distance. Sometimes they do this before turning up to kill her. Domestic abuse was already at epidemic levels in this country and women are primarily the victims of male perpetrators. Over 95% of perpetrators in prison for domestic abuse crimes are male.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So back to the Kev of the tweet above. Kev seems to be saying that many men are at home struggling to keep their tempers with the women in their homes. This is undoubtedly true. There are clearly many domestic abusers in this country and many abused women. The women are at home struggling because they cannot access services which would otherwise help them to leave their "Kev" who is, and was already, abusing them in their home. Government are doing too little too late. As far as I can see they have done nothing practical to help these women. Government have already, over a number of years, reduced services further than simply "back to the bone". The skeletal services in the women's sector have never been able to cope with the stratospheric scale of violence against women. That has never been made more obvious to them than currently, when women can't even be reached. They can't access helplines as "Kev" is constantly watching over their shoulder. He is waiting for an excuse to "knock them out" either with a fist or his constant mental and emotional onslaughts. They are trapped because government have not given women's services the funds to get them out alive. They were already in danger before Covid19. They just have less opportunity to seek help. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are men who have approached me directly by direct message. These men should not be around women. Thanks @NewVisions99 and @sean_mccarthy7 for your direct messages. Since you aren't brave enough to put them on an open forum I will. Sean in particular learned to hate women very young. I hope his mother sees this.</span> <span style="font-size: large;">These men do not deter me and never will. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What I also understand is that you have a problem with women. You can see a man talk of how to hit a woman and you cannot condemn that man. It is because you accept domestic abuse as an inevitable consequence if a woman challenges you in your own home. You demonstrate that your being in close proximity to a woman over a prolonged period is problematic for you and your temper. It is because many of you are perps now and some of you are perps in the making. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is why we have a problem with domestic abuse in this country and will continue to. It is because men who are domestic abusers convince others that firstly THEY are not abusers and secondly domestic abuse is not really an issue. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Furthermore, Billy Joe Saunders.. this is not an apology. This is a promise to commit more violence. This is also not an acknowledgement of wrong doing... it is an accusation that women cannot take a joke. It also shows you regard women as the possessions of men. Man. At best you just aren't funny. At worst..... well. You are dangerous.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No one likes to be a victim of violence. No one likes to feel weak. I am always shocked and hurt when I hear the term "professional victim" or hear men sneer at those women who talk of the domestic abuse or rape or other violence, both sexual and physical, that they've suffered at the hands of men. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The clear anticipation and expectation of such men (and indeed of many men) is that this could never happen to them. That they would be able to stop it. That even if they were a victim of male violence it would not destroy them. They will not be defined by it. They will recover. They will not be, or remain, "victims".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While men are overwhelmingly the victims of male violence against people they do not often live their lives in fear of it and that is the crucial difference. I'm talking about men's perception of the way the world will treat them. It is different to a woman's - even before she experiences male violence - and it changes drastically once she has.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Women know that they commit very few of the violent crimes against the person. Yet they also know - or should know - that they have a 1 in 4 chance of being a victim of domestic abuse and a 1 in 5 chance of being a victim of rape. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the UK in the year ending 2018 women were the victims in 53% of violent crimes against the person. Men are the perpetrators in 74% of violent crime <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/thenatureofviolentcrimeinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2018#what-do-we-know-about-perpetrators-of-violent-crimes">ONS</a> and 82% of women's prison sentences in 2018 were for non-violent crime. <a href="https://www.womeninprison.org.uk/research/key-facts.php">Women in Prison</a>. There were 149 women killed by men in 2018 and of those 61% were killed by a current or former male intimate partner and a further 11% by a current or former family member. <a href="https://femicidescensus.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Femicide-Census-Report-on-2018-Femicides-.pdf">Femicide Census 2018</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Put simply - women rarely hurt people but they are often hurt and when they are hurt it is most frequently by men.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And this is how we walk through the world. With that knowledge. Always there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When a woman has suffered male violence you may not easily spot her. You can stand alongside her in a queue at the supermarket. You can pass her in the street and her head will be held high. You can see her in a bar laughing with friends. She does not wear a sign. She does not declare she is a victim - not verbally.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Not drinking until drunk and going home early</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Not being around men who drink</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Going quiet when men become loud. </span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We don't know which men will abuse us or which won't before it happens and we have no firm knowledge that we won't be duped again even when we have been "deprogrammed" and helped by feminist women's services. We learn the signs - we know the red flags. We hope we can spot them. We are forever trying to spot them. Sometimes we fail. Abusive men and rapists are crafty. They also know they are rarely caught or prosecuted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many men do not know these feelings. They walk tall in the street. They don't check over their shoulders constantly. They aren't afraid that they will have sexual comments shouted out at them from women in the street. If on the rare occasions this happens they don't worry that the woman shouting will come and sexually assault or kill them. They expect their voices to be heard in any room they enter without fear of attack by women. Some of them may fear other men but they certainly don't fear women. Why would they?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">I’m going to invite you to live just one
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Earlier in the morning (of the night I will take you to) and the downstairs kitchen
bore the evidence of his rage. A smashed in sink; a broken chair; a wall with
plaster missing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">A result of my failing to come home “on time”.
Of my being “a slag”. Of spending a night out with friends he didn't know. He had insisted on
dropping me off outside to “check”. A night of trying to enjoy myself whilst
taking around 30 texts from him telling me to get home “immediately” and if not
the door would be locked. Of my coming home in absolute fear to find the door
locked. Of begging to come inside my own home. Of being “allowed” inside and
knowing a punishment was coming. It wasn’t immediate. It wasn’t a fist. I
braced myself. It could always be worse than a fist. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">It was about 9.30pm on the night after this
that I ask you to accompany me. I was tired and I was confused and I had no
idea what was happening to me because lots of – maybe most of - abused women, don’t
know they are being abused.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We feel
permanently lost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">My abuser had left the house. I didn’t know
where he was. In the morning he had smashed up the kitchen because I’d asked
why I was in trouble. I hadn’t known there was a curfew time. I didn’t know it
was 11pm or that I wasn’t allowed out beyond that . I didn’t know that
11.05pm<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was “punishable”. I didn’t know
anything. Abused women stop knowing things. They stop knowing themselves. I’d
taken him back after previously escaping and I didn’t know that the rules had
changed again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Do join me Lisa Nandy and your Labour colleagues. I really want you to join me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">It was him. I saw his face and the name
“Captain” flash up on my mobile. I always knew who was in charge of that
damnable, abusive boat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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answer. Like a pocket dial... you know the one? Where you don’t really hear
anything and it’s all muffled? And you shout out “hello” and you laugh and
think “oh this is funny...”. Yeah? ....That.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Except this wasn’t at all muffled. It
wasn’t at all accidental. It was crystal clear. I heard every word and every sound
because he had the phone in his hand so I could hear. He had dialled so that I
could hear. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">I heard him ask, “Have you got one in
stockings?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">And I knew where he was in an instant. I
don’t know how. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">He was in a brothel asking to buy a woman
to rape. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">He had called me so that I could listen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">And I listened. And I cried. I begged him to
stop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">I heard his footsteps walking down a
hallway . I heard the door open. I heard him go inside. I heard it all. I won’t
go further. I don’t think you could handle it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">What I needed was a feminist women’s
service. A radical feminist service, that would explain to me what was
happening to me, whilst at the same time trying to free the woman he was raping
whilst I listened. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Both of us – both women- needed to be free.
I still wonder who that woman was and I still weep for her. I weep more for her
than for myself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Because, we were both victims of that vile
man, at one and the same time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Do you know Lisa that I’d left him months
before this incident and I took him back and that this was his revenge? Do you
know that what I needed was a place to escape to? Do you know that if any man
had offered me a hand at that time I was so low I would have taken it? That he
could have abused me too? That it took me another 3 years to get free? That at
that time what I needed, oh so desperately, was to not be around any man at
all? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">When I finally ended it with him I said
nothing but “sorry”. To anyone who would listen. I was like a kitten. I looked
like a lion. I roared like one. But any man could have kicked me or put me in a
box or drowned me and I would still have been saying sorry as I died. I was
like a woman without skin. I was pain personified. I was raw. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Because what women like me needed at that
point was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>....women. Women to put my
skin back on my bones with feminist love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Not more confusion. Not being told to be
compassionate to men who identify as women because they are women. Not being
told that the deep voice they correctly hear and identify, and cower from, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is female. Not to be told that they need to be
“inclusive” at that time. Not to be told they are bigots for wanting to be
around women....for wanting to be comforted by women. Healed by women. Made
whole again. By women. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">You did not sit on that phone that night.
You did not hear what it like was to hear another woman being raped and abused
just for being a woman in poverty. You didn’t have to listen to her pain. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You did not have to nurse your own pain because
you were a woman who had displeased a man. You did not endure the next night,
where I was thrown to the floor in the street by him. Left unconscious. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">You did not endure the next hours of the
“one in stockings” as she was raped and raped and raped by more men like him.
That woman may still be enduring this. Can you imagine that while you sit in a
radio studio condemning women like me and women like her? How many men like my
abuser has she been raped by? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Thank the feminist world for @nia who help
women like me at the same time as helping women like her. She is my sister. She
is somewhere in this world and I want her to be free. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Why the hell aren’t you fighting for both
of us to have safe space to recover from male violence?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Why can’t you understand that women like me
need a space to recover away from male bodies? Why can’t you listen to us when
we say that women know male bodies and we sometimes need to hide from them to
recover even if they identify as women? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">Why can’t you listen to us? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">I hope you are never on the end of such a
fist or such a phone call. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jean Hatchethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17366431067037109280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370704414807518712.post-13362679814241714462019-10-12T10:57:00.003+01:002023-04-22T16:21:24.413+01:00All About Me<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">I originally posted this over a year ago. It was removed by Blogger after complaints from my stalker who did not like what I said so the first bit is edited. The rest is exactly as it first appeared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have had a stalker named (insert name of extremely small, incontinent, obsessive troll of your choice) for 5 years now. That's more time than I have been with my partner. This is weird to consider.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I cannot shake him. He is obsessed. That's the thing about stalkers. They never stop. You can ignore them. You can plead with them. You can report them. They will never stop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now. Enough about him. The only power he ever had over me was to reveal my details and strip me of anonymity. He still thinks he has that power. But he doesn't really know my details. My face is right here anyway. But here is me. I'll make it as brief as possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was born in Sheffield on Lowedges council estate. It was a tough place to grow up. My abuser often called it "the gutter" and threatened to "put you back in the gutter where you came from". My parents were older and poor but they were hard working and I never went without food or clothes. My aunt and uncle took care of me quite a lot. Mum and dad drank quite a bit and I was better off out of the way. My uncle instilled in me a need for an education and helped to push me and push me. I read a lot as a kid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My dad was very political. I learned my politics watching him watch the news. He once threw his shoe at "Pudding Face" as he called Ted Heath and mum was scared she wouldn't be able to watch Corrie if he broke the telly. Of course he hated Margaret Thatcher with a passion. He was a shop steward. A steelworker. I was very proud of him when he got angry and brought the men out on strike. He did this a lot in the seventies and early eighties. I remember his boss coming round when he died and I was proud that my dad had never ever backed down to him and that man knew it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mum worked in a factory too, She wasn't political at all and had really struggled at school. She sort of followed around in dad's shadow and there wasn't a lot of time left over to keep an eye on me so I just did my own thing really. I was a fighter. I fought boys a lot. On that estate....you either fought or ran and I am a terrible runner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But I was a socialist through to my bones. How could I be otherwise? The estate was predominantly white but when I began going to the youth club, kids from the other side of the city used to come over. They had better records. Black lads who visited had all the good stuff. I didn't understand racism until then. I just saw music. I started seeing a black lad from down by the ice rink and a neighbour told my dad who hit the roof. Then the local thugs started to come and attack the youth club and demand "give us back our white girls or we will kill you niggers on your way home" and it was terrifying. We had bottles thrown through the bus windows as we travelled together over to estates on the other side of the city where afro-carribean communities predominantly lived. We had gangs chase us through town at night. I was called a "nigger-lover" and I knew racism then. I was the "property" of white boys. I was "stained" because I went out with black boys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I left home at 16 because my dad wouldn't sign my forms to stay on to further education. I signed on the dole and went to college. You could do that then. You could go and learn stuff if you were poor. I did my A levels and dad died shortly before I finished. In fact he died the night before one of my exams. I passed. I got an A. Because when you grow up fighting you don't know how to stop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I stayed behind instead of going to Uni in Manchester so that I could be around my mum. I met and married a miner. We went through the Coal Not Dole protests together. I went off to university after I got married. We split amicably as were so young and went our separate ways. He was a lovely bloke and we are still friends and in regular contact. I got my degree and then worked and bought my own house and I was doing ok. I was happy. Independent. I was me. I was a Labour Party member. Not that active. I was a feminist. More gobby than activist. But I knew who I was. I was strong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And then I met my abuser. He targeted me probably because I was strong. But he sniffed something else in me too. I think it was my upbringing and not being cared for too well. Anyway - most of that I've written about before. 15 years of it. I got gradually smaller. Broken bones, name-calling, control, bullying etc etc. I'm not going over all that again. But I got lost. I mean really lost. He delighted in changing me completely. I became a sort of puppet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I gave birth to and raised a beautiful daughter so I kept fighting. I kept trying. But I got deeper and deeper into a surreal world. I did whatever I thought would make him happy. I spouted his politics sometimes to keep the peace. This I am more ashamed of than anything else. He loved Thatcher. Some of our worst arguments would start with me standing my ground until I either went quiet or.... I once convinced him in the early days to vote Labour and he never let me forget it. Quietly he worked on getting his own back. He needed revenge for that. I became a dead thing smiling. There were no lights on behind my eyes if anyone looked. No one looked. I didn't recognise me. Everyone still thought I was confident and strong. Was I hell. I was barely keeping my head above water. I kept trying to get out. I signed up for a Law Masters degree thinking eventually I might be able to support myself but he made me give it up calling me selfish and saying we couldn't afford it. Shortly afterwards he bought a Porsche for himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I kept going. He made me open a rug shop. I knew nothing about rugs or shops! It was ludicrous. i have a career I could have gone back to but he wouldn't let me. Here I met the best woman ever to walk this earth. My beautiful Helen. I loved her from the start. And she loved me. My abuser ended that eventually. He stopped me from seeing her by poisoning our relationship with lies. I didn't see her for a couple of years in total. I missed her every day. When the rug shop didn't work he made me work within the family business where he could keep a close eye on me and control me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He said I was useless at it. But he made me keep doing it anyway. I was totally brainwashed. I stopped being me. And then I did a really crazy thing. I thought he would be proud of me and leave me alone if he could just see that I was doing things that would please him. Show I agreed with him. That he had won. I thought it would give me a break from his abuse. I joined the Tory Party. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am more ashamed of this than anything I have done in my life. It makes me cry with shame. In my defence.... I actually did some reasonably good things and I stayed a feminist as best it allowed. (Planet Cath - some of you know her - once said and I quote "you're the only Tory I've ever liked") I quickly worked out that in Sheffield they were a bunch of mildly-racist, poor-hating, losers at best, but I also realised that the city of Sheffield was being sold down the line by a really ineffective Labour Party who poured finances into contracts they didn't understand and left vital services begging for funds. Our PFI contract with AMEY is one of the worst things ever to happen to Sheffield and I campaigned against it. Our contract with Veolia was signed erroneously with the Lib Dems years earlier and I poked and poked and uncovered the millions that had been overpaid. No one really cared but I was proud of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the other things I did was to run Nigel Bonson's campaign for South Yorkshire Police And Crime Commissioner. This is when I came up against Shaun Wright who was eventually stripped of his post and expelled from the Labour Party who selected him as candidate. Way, way too late. I never let that go either. I dug and dug and dug. I unearthed some of the evidence that he was complicit in covering up child sexual abuse in Rotherham and had been doing so since his time as head of Children's Services. I found evidence of possible corruption around his selection process and his being Vice-Chair of the Police and Crime Panel appointed by one of the subsequently convicted grooming gang's relatives. I confronted him with this at every single hustings whilst his own party supported him while knowing. At the election count his wife cornered me and told me she would "make sure you get what's coming to you now Shaun is elected". Secretly I was told that the pressure I was putting him under had put his marriage on the rocks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I continued to campaign against him and eventually it all fell apart. Throughout this time I received support from ShefDap in Sheffield. The Sheffield Domestic Abuse Partnership and they and my IDVA gave me the strength and support I needed. I felt I could finally shake the stink of the Tories off me without letting anyone down and I walked away. I kicked out my abuser at the same time. I marched back to me so fast I was dizzy. I almost immediately rang my Helen at this time in 2013 and it was like we had never been apart. We had our own language we two. I will never have a friend like her again. My heart is slightly broken right now. I didn't get enough time with her. She died a few weeks ago.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I hope you'll forgive me for the mistakes I made when I was being abused. I really do. Because everything I have done since has been for women. I like to think I have proved myself. I have never sought fame or anything like it. I just do my stuff. I fought the Ched Evans thing for a long time and I raised money to help his complainant. I'm proud of that. I would do it again despite it bringing the stalker Goggins into my life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I</span><span style="font-size: large;"> have always worked hard to support women exiting abusive relationships. A lot of the time I do this when women approach me by DM. I do my bit to signpost and support. I never refuse women my time. I was given a hard time at one bit in 2014 because a woman spread some malicious gossip about me. I ignored it and carried on doing my thing. At this time women leaked my details to Goggins including details from my Facebook like the name of my daughter and my cats. I really wish those women hadn't done that. He uses it constantly and obsessively along with his lies. I won't put my own or my daughter's name here. Lots of people know them and I don't need to broadcast it. I don't hide my identity any longer. My face is easy to find. I'm no longer anonymous. My cats are Stanley and Woobie. They hate Goggins too and frequently do little craps in the shape of his saggy old body.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So now Goggins has nothing. He can't expose anything about me. I've been investigated by my work. My ex husband now knows who I am online and stalks my profile relentlessly. Ched Evans fans don't care who I am anymore and have moved on. No one is coming to kill me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And that's it. That's how you take back control. You own the thing they think scares you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will never be scared of any man again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Peace sisters x</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">(P.S .... I'll never be scared of any woman who tries to humiliate me with these details either. I hope others are thoroughly disgusted.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cheers Helen M Tann. You were a bloody marvel. Till we meet again love.</span><br />
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<br />Jean Hatchethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17366431067037109280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370704414807518712.post-55419633566757041002019-09-01T16:54:00.000+01:002019-09-01T17:06:09.178+01:00Ride For Murdered Women - A Female Peloton<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">As of today I have ridden for 276 women murdered by men they knew. On Saturday 7<sup>th</sup>
September 2019 at 1pm, just for one occasion, I have asked women of the UK and around the world to ride
with me to honour the women murdered by men they knew since the beginning of
2016. Small groups of women will be meeting other women to ride together in
locations around the UK. I will ride in London with a group of fantastic women including
Karen Ingala Smith who began the project ‘Counting Dead Women’ which inspires
these rides.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Each woman will be wearing a
red t shirt or jacket to represent the blood of the women killed by men. The ride is for women only and over the age of 18. There will be no men. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Some women will ride on
exercise bikes in their own homes. Some women may use wheelchairs. Some women
will ride alone in locations where there aren’t other women they can join with.
Some women will ride in other countries as far away as Australia. Please join
us if you have a bike. Ride at the same time. Feel free to carry one woman’s
name from the list below or ride for all the women. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">What we will all do is
remember and celebrate the lives of the women cruelly stolen from their
families by men who hated them enough to kill them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">I accept no defence or
excuses from the men who murdered them. Some of those men killed themselves in
the ultimate act of cowardice and self-absoprtion. Some also killed the woman’s
children to “save them” from living without a mother and her murderer. I don’t
accept the excuse that the women were “cheating” or were prostitutes or that
the men themselves were mentally ill or “provoked” or “defending themselves” as
in one case by slitting a wife’s throat from ear to ear. I don’t accept that
men were “putting women out of the misery” of old age or dementia. Every single
one of these men murdered a woman or a child because they hate women and girls
enough to kill them. We need to shine a spotlight on the men killing women. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">We need to honour their
lives. We need to highlight the pain and horror of their final moments and the
shattered lives of their families left behind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The main stream media frequently allow these things to go unnoticed. Men
who murder women are hidden within misleading headlines. The media must pay
attention to women’s services when they report the murders of women and change
their ways. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">We need government to
recognize that saying the words “domestic abuse” and committing to “end it”
covers up the details of the terrible work of these men and how deep rooted the
hatred of women is in our society. The failures of the police are woven through
the stories below. The police must pay attention when women point out these
men. Many women who pointed can no longer point. They are dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">We need courts to punish
domestic abusers appropriately. We need juries to be educated in domestic abuse
including in the tactics of coercive control and stalking. We need judges to
educate themselves and give judgements that are knowledgeable of the various
aspects of abuse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">We need courts to stop
allowing men to walk free to abuse again and again until they murder as in some
cases here. One perpetrator on this list murdered three of his partners. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">But next Saturday we will
put aside those things. We will simply ride to show our love for the women and
to make sure they and their families know that women will never forget them. On
Saturday we will be riding full of sadness but we will also be riding full of
love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Join us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">All funds will go to the organization
‘nia’ (Karen Ingala Smith is their fantastic CEO) who work to help and to save
some of the most vulnerable women in the UK. Please donate <a href="https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/jeanhatchetrideformurderedwomen">here</a> if you can. Thanks to all those of you who have already donated. Women are being helped because of you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Here are the names of the
women I have ridden for since I began riding in 2017. Please take time to read
but stop if it is too much. It is always too much. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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#1 Katrina O Hara - Stabbed to death by her ex husband outside her place of
work as she closed the shop. He had lain in wait for her. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ride #2 Georgina Symonds - strangled
with twine after she "dumped" the man who repeatedly bought her body
to use for sex and told her he loved her. Prostitutes lives matter
too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ride #3 Lisa Jane Lyttle - strangled
to death by her husband with a mobile phone cord. He was annoyed afterwards
that he lost all his friends. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ride #4 Andrea Lewis Stamped to death
by her husband who then dragged her outside and left her to be found in the
street half-naked with 41 different injuries. There was a history of
him covering her in bruises. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #5 Guida Rufino - had her
throat slashed and was stabbed in the chest 4 times by an ex- partner she had
told to leave. He tied up her friend who had come to help her so that she heard
her best friend die, screaming and begging for her life.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #6 Elidona Demiraj stabbed to
death by her partner - neighbours heard her screaming and a loud thud.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #7 Geraldine Newman -
Beaten to death with a hammer whilst her children lay bleeding to death
upstairs after her husband stabbed them.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #8 Caroline Andrews -
Strangled to death by her husband, who had defrauded her dementia suffering
father out of more than £260,000. He then checked into a hotel room with a
woman he intended to prostitute after buying knives, Prosecco and condoms. He
lied to their 4 children about her death. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #9 Bethany Hill - tortured by
two men - one of whom was her ex-partner. They bound a Barbie Doll, supposed to
resemble her, with duct tape just as they did her before repeatedly slashing
her wrists as neighbours heard her screaming. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #10 - Sheila Jefferson -
brutally murdered by her brother-in-law. 17 blunt force injuries to her face
and also shot in the face. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #11 - For Kerry Gascoigne who
was strangled to death by her partner. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #12 - for Leanne Wall was
head-butted and then strangled to death by her ex-partner</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #13 - for Maria Byrne whose
husband doused her in white spirit and then turned the gas on so she caught
alight. She lived for 30 minutes. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #14 - for Rose Hill who was
strangled to death by her grandson who also killed her daughter. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #15 - for Julie Hill who was
axed in the face, had her teeth punched out and was then drowned in the bath by
her nephew who had also murdered her mother. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #16 - For Lisa Reynolds -
stabbed 17 times by her boyfriend as she begged him to stop because the knife
was blunt as her children watched. She screamed "The knife is blunt!
Stop it Baz."</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #17 - For Natasha Bradbury who
was murdered by her ex who cracked her ribs, her neck, injured her brain and
caused heart injuries. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #18 for Julie Archer - doused
in petrol and set alight by her brother. She told a nurse he did it just before
she died. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #19 For Gemma Stevens - her
boyfriend stamped on her head 11 times, stabbed her and then set her house on
fire. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #20 for Dawn Green killed by
her husband who then hanged himself. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #21 for Carrie Ann Izzard who
was fatally stabbed 29 times in the neck by her ex</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #22 for Lyndsey Smith – who
was stabbed to death in the stomach by her ex who went off out having a nice
time as she died after years of abuse. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #23 for Lynn Freeman who was
stabbed by her partner who murdered his ex partner, Jodie Betteridge, just
minutes later. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #24 for Jodie Betterridge who
was stabbed 30 times in the head and 45 times in the torso – a total of 132
times altogether. The blade of the knife of the man’s knife broke off with the
ferocity. He stabbed her on her front garden in front of her 3 children, one of
whom ran around in the sun screaming and covered in her blood.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #25 for Joanna Trojniak who
was stabbed 6 times by a partner she was trying to leave. He than stabbed
himself a tiny bit and ran into the street crying as an attempt to escape
justice. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #26 for Amina Begum who was
killed by her son after “multiple incised wounds” according to the
coroner. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #27 for Natasha Sadler who was
stabbed through the head and suffered other stab wounds after a man who lived
in the same house was unhappy that she turned on a tap and his shower
temperature changed. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #28 for Laura Marshall who was
murdered by her ex after months of abuse. He left her in a bath of her own
blood, raped and covered in bruises.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #29 for Tracy Cockrell whose
partner strangled her and then set her on fire.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #30 for Helen Bailey who was
targeted during her grief for her dead husband and then manipulated by a new
partner who then suffocated her and buried her in a cesspit under the garage –
allowing police to search for her body for months. He killed her dog too and
buried it alongside her. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #31 for Leigh Ann Mahachi who
was stabbed 40 times by her ex in the street outside her house. Her mother
heard her screams as she died and came out to try to stop her blood with towels
as her ex partner ran away. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #32 for Jean Ryan who was
stabbed to death by her husband. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #33 for Nasreen Khan who was a
care worker, stabbed to death with her 5 children in the house, because her
husband did not like that she visited men as part of her job.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #34 for Fay Daniels who was
stabbed 17 times including 4 to her face, 8 to her neck and had 2 broken ribs.
Her ex then dumped her in the back yard.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #35 for Xin Xin Lei repeatedly
stabbed by her husband.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #36 For Louise O' Brien whose
husband strangled her to death then left a heart-shaped chocolate on the pillow
next to her dead body.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #37 For Natalie Hemming whose
husband found out she was going to leave him and beat her to death. Her 6 year
old son crept out of bed and saw his mother during the murder but was
frightened he would be told off. Her husband then dumped her body face down in
a wood to be found 3 weeks later and took the children to the zoo.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #38 For Iris Owens whose son
strangled, kicked and slashed at her with a chainsaw as she hung out washing on
the line in her garden.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #39 For Becky Morgan who was
on a date with a man who "allowed" her to fall into the sea without
raising the alarm or helping as she drowned. He went off to the pub instead.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #40 for Maria Mbombo whose
husband stabbed her to death after an internet search for "the most
painful place to stab someone".</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #41 for Marina Erte beaten
severely by her jealous ex who then drowned her by holding a shower attachment
to her face.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #42 for Marina Nolan whose ex
slashed her throat and strangled her with a TV flex. He put their 2 year old
son out into the street to wander then returned with 3 knives and stabbed her
to death leaving her to be found by her other son. (Marina was murdered in 2002
but I was asked by her friend to honour her death)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #43 For Sonita Nijhawan whose
husband axed her in the head 40 times and also stabbed her 78 times because she
wanted a divorce. She took her rings off the day before and he replaced them
after she was dead. He was jailed for manslaughter because
"depressed" but not too depressed and "out of control" to
search "softest part of the human female skull" the day before.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #44 for Dawn Rhodes. Her
husband was cleared of murder. I've included her in this list because he
slashed her throat. He had been stalking her, checking her phone and Facebook
and found she was seeing another man. He had harassed her and her friends via
Facebook posts from a fake profile. It is sad that she was the one labeled
"unstable" and he walked free.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #45 for Andrena Douglas -
police arrived to tell her her partner was injured in a caravan fire- only to
find her murdered.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #46 for Karen Hales -
bludgeoned to death with a hammer by her daughter's ex-partner. He raped and
murdered her daughter Jade at the same time.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #47 for Jade Hales - ex-
partner broke in and raped her, murdered her and then also murdered her mother
and dog.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #48 for Keziah Flux-Edmunds -
aged 6. Killed by her father to torture her mother, his estranged wife. He
drowned Keziah and her pet dogs and lay them all on the bed for her mother to
find alongside a letter which said " You've taken everything and I will
leave you with just memories."</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #49 for Helen Fraser - stabbed
multiple times by her partner in front of her daughter as neighbours heard her
screaming.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #50 for Jean Irwin whose
husband hit her with a hammer as she slept and then strangled her.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #51 for Nijole Sventeckiene
whose partner slit her throat with a single 5 inch long incision and left her
naked crying for help.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #52 for Agnieszka Szymura who
was stabbed by her partner 30 times as neighbours watched. There was evidence
of past abuse and injuries.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #53 for Sandra Gill. There was
clear evidence of past abuse at the hands of her husband and yet a coroner
could not be certain that her severe head injury was inflicted by him. He said
she may have "fallen off the toilet". Grown women can sit on toilets.
And beds. Even when drunk.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #54 for Sarah Nash who was
strangled by her ex-partner who was allowed to walk free just months before to
attend a "relationship course".</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #55 was for Jules Parkin who
was killed this year. It was so shocking to know that her class would be going
into school to hear that their teacher had been murdered. I included her at the
request of a friend but will also ride for her again.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #56 Alison Muncaster shot by
her husband as she sat on the sofa.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #57 for Emma Baum whose
ex-partner battered her to death with a crowbar and then urged her mother to
come and "find her" with him.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #58 for Claire Hart shot by
her husband days after she left him. He left a note "revenge is a dish
best served cold" he also shot her daughter alongside her after lying in
wait for them. He reloaded his gun between rounds.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #59 for Charlotte Hart whose
father shot her alongside her mum because her mum had left him days before. His
note also said "Karma is a bitch". Charlotte's last words were
"It was my dad who shot me". Brave to the last.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #60 for Tracey Gabriel who was
stabbed repeatedly by a male "friend" who also stabbed another friend
of hers.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #61 for Samia Shahid whose
ex-husband raped her and strangled her as he disapproved of her second
marriage. Her father assisted him.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #62 for Nicola Haworth
suffocated by her ex-partner who left her 9 month old baby screaming in the
house beside her body.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #63 for Lenuta Iona Haidemac -
prostituted by her partner to another man who raped and murdered her. He
strangled her, stabbed her twice, punctured her nipples and wrote a name on her
body.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #64 for Margaret Mayer whose
husband bludgeoned her to death with a lamp.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #65 for Hannah Pearson whose
partner strangled her to death after watching porn. She did not consent to the
porn-influenced "sex" either the judge found.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #66 for Gergana Prodanova
murdered by her ex-partner who was furious that she refused to go back to him
and was beginning a new relationship. He put her naked body in a suitcase and
dragged it through the town centre before dumping her to decompose beside a
railway line. She had endured years of abuse.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #67 for Lynne Braund who had a
deep fear of fires. Her 18 month old daughter had died in a house fire in 1990
and she still suffered the trauma of that when her ex-partner squirted her with
lighter fluid and set her on fire. Then left as she burned. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #68 for Donna Williamson whose
boyfriend accused her of sleeping with other men so he stabbed her in the heart
and lung. She had tried to call the police and he could be heard screaming
"You are dying. You are dying mate. Your life is slipping away from you.
What you done to me you c*nt, you f*cking deserve it."</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #69 for Xixi Bi beaten to
death by her partner. She had 41 injuries including a broken jaw and ribs.
Paramedics found her body so bruised they thought it was a result of her being
dead for days not hours.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #70 for Jean Constant
asphyxiated with a plastic bag by her husband .</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #71 for Karen Arnold was
murdered by her husband who stabbed her multiple times.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #72 for Alison Jane
Farr-Davies beaten to death by her boyfriend and thrown downstairs naked. Her
body was hit with such force that there was a penetrating cardia injury -
similar injuries are only seen in war as a result of shrapnel, grenades, mortar
bombs and explosions.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #73 for Hayley Dean whose
partner bludgeoned her to death with a lump hammer and then slept next to her
body. He put her head under the pillow. When she was found she had a cigarette
in her mouth and a lighter in the other hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #74 for Elizabeth
Bowe whose brother murdered her because she was going to accuse him of
rape. She was found with a dressing gown around her neck and naked from the
waist down as he sat close by smoking a cigarette.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #75 for Melinda Korosi whose
ex-partner raped her 3 times before gouging a hole in her neck with a sharpened
rock. Police deemed her high risk after she had recently accused him of rape.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #76 for Nasreem Buksh whose
estranged husband bashed her skull in as she slept. The children reported that
he never spoke to her and hadn't for years.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #77 for Natasha Wake whose
partner stabbed her 11 times with an 8 inch knife. He stabbed her with such
force that 6 of the wounds went through her torso and out of her back. He then
wrapped her in a duvet and put her under the stairs telling her daughter that
the blood on the walls was ketchup. He was unhappy that she had found out he
was being investigated for sexual assault.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #78 for Jaqueline Pattenden
whose partner stabbed her to death through her chest in his home.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #79 for Mandy Gallear whose
husband stabbed her as she unloaded the dishwasher because she had told him she
was leaving him</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #80 for Vicky Bance whose
husband saw her talking to another man so he stabbed her 23 times with a
commando knife. She had 16 stab wounds to her chest, 14 deeply penetrating her
heart and both lungs and any one of them could have been fatal with the maximum
depth of one wound being 20cm.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #81 for Sophie Smith whose
boyfriend beat her for 4 hours breaking 11 of her ribs, her eye socket and her
nose.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #82 for Alice Ruggles who was
stalked increasingly and relentlessly before eventually being stabbed to death
by an ex partner who had already terrorised and abused her. She felt
"palmed off" by police. He eventually broke in to her home and
slashed her throat from ear to ear. He stabbed her at least 6 times. Even as he
waited to murder her he was on his phone arranging a Tinder date for
afterwards.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #83 for Lucy Jones murdered by
ex partner in a sustained and brutal attack with a total of 90 separate
injuries.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #84 for Belen Tripp whose
husband stabbed her 24 times with some of those wounds 14cm deep and damaging
her shoulder blades with the ferocity.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #85 for Deeqa Ibrahim who
kindly visited her ill husband before he returned to Somalia. He grabbed her
and locked them both in the bathroom where he began stabbing her to death.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #86 for Rebecca Johnson
stabbed to death by her boyfriend who escaped and pretended to be suffering from
hypothermia.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #87 for Linda Ordinans was
found murdered after her husband called police to report her murder shortly
before killing himself.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #88 for Andraya Webb told her
boyfriend on a night out that their relationship was over after he had been
violent towards her too many times. She assured friends it would be ok for her
to go home even after he had become aggressive. Her ex returned and broke into
her home. He hit her with an iron. He stamped on her face so hard he left a
boot mark. He poured paint down her throat and put gas canisters between her
thighs before setting her on fire. She had 45 different injuries and was
breathing when she was set alight. He said "Some of us have angels and
some of us have demons. Tonight the demons won."</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #89 for Umida Eshboboeva
strangled to death by her husband just before Christmas. Always an enhanced
period of risk for victims.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #90 for Angela Best was
murdered by a man at his home. Few other details are available.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #91 for Claire Paton was beaten
to death by her ex-partner - the excuse offered was that he had tinnitus. He
also attacked her son with a nail gun after throttling her. No excuse is
acceptable for killing a woman. Not even poorly ears.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #92 for Hayley Wall who was
lured into a "relationship" with her abusive uncle. He then murdered
her because she refused to sexually touch him in public in front of her
friends. He smashed her skull in with a television.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #93 for Nicola Woodman
murdered on Christmas Day 2016 by her partner who stabbed her in the chest. He
also battered her with a pickaxe handle. A judge told him "You are not
ill. You are wicked."</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Ride #94 for Tracy McPartland
beaten to death over a 2 day period by her son who had history of abusing
her. She had a total of 29 separate injuries. The judge said "she simply
took the beating and did not seek help". No woman expects the child they
give birth to will one day beat the life from them. It is the ultimate
betrayal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #95 for Nicola Beck husband murdered her with a
massive head wound + 10 other scalp wounds over money/divorce </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">Ride
#96 for Kerri McCauley beaten to death by ex who broke her phone so she
couldn’t call help +her mother to find</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #97 for Victoria Shorrock - killed with cut to back
of Head +significant bruises - partner jailed for “assault"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #98 for Kulwinder Kaur stabbed 3 times in the neck
until dead by jealous ex-husband - murder is dark + cold</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #99 for Kiran Daudia whose ex husband murdered her,
stuffed her in a suitcase and left her in an alleyway </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #100 for Amandeep Kaur whose partner feared she
would leave him so he slashed her neck before she was able to. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride#101 for Anita Downey whose partner slit her throat
in front of his own son who then had to call 999.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #102 for Chrissy Kendall - strangled to death by
controlling ex partner who left her body for her son to find</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #103 for Gillian Zvomuya husband struck her 40
times in her car inc with axe. Then drove body to Lidl car park</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #104 for Anne Forneaux who was murdered by her
husband who battered her around the head with a hammer and stabbed her in the
neck.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #105 for Tina Billingham stabbed through heart
+liver with sword stick by partner who dumped her body in GP’s</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #106 for Hannah Dorans whose ex partner allegedly
raped her and then strangled her. He also sent messages to her parents via
Facebook causing them distress. He had behaved in an abusive and threatening
way towards her before the alleged murder.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #107 for Catherine Kelly - murdered by her son who
doused her in petrol and set her on fire</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #108 for Karina Batista-partner stabbed her through
the eye, cut her throat, stabbed her in the heart+lungs </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #109 in fog again for Humara Khan - husband
bludgeoned her to death with a hammer for not making him a meal. I hope every
meal from now on tastes like death. I hope he vomits often. I hope he dies
hungry</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">Ride
#110 for Hazel Wilson-Briant stabbed to death by partner in front of kids
screaming for someone to call 999.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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#111 for Margaret Stenning stabbed to death by her husband in Spain where they
had retired. Abusive men often isolate their victims by moving them to a home
away from family and friends. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #112 for Avis Addison suffocated by her
husband who refused all help for her during her descent into dementia</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #113 for Beverley Hudson - stabbed by ex partner 22
times. He broke 2 knives and stabbed her daughter 5 times</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #114 for Sarah Pitkin. Husband stabbed her in the
neck multiple times - after previous abuse suspected</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #115 for Justene Reece who killed herself as a
result of an ex’s obsessive stalking and coercive control</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #116 today for Anne-Marie James stabbed in the
chest until dead by her brother who also stabbed their mum</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #117 for Sabrina Mullings whose partner stabbed her
through the heart and liver after asking her to marry him</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #118 for Vikki Hull strangled to death by father of
her child in her father’s home.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #119 for Kanwal Bernice also as I miscounted. It is
unclear exactly how she was murdered as her husband had placed her in a storage
room wrapped in cloth with a bin liner over her feet. She had been there up to
14 days when found. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #120 for Carolyn Hill - punched in face by
boyfriend resulting in brain haemorrhage - he got drunk +bragged</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #121 for Katrina Evemy stabbed +bitten to death by
jealous boyfriend who left her toddler covered in her blood</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #122 for Megan Bills. New “boyfriend” strangled her
acting out a snuff fantasy then wrapped her in cling film</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride#123 for Karolina Chwiluk -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ex-Boyfriend stabbed her 26 times in the face +neck cos
she was dating a friend</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Extra Ride #124 for Tara Newbold whose partner was,
unfathomably, disgustingly, not charged with murder. Her family seek
justice. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #125 for Jane Sherratt beaten to death with a
training weight by husband - she lived 17 weeks before dying</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #126 for Tracy Kearns-husband inflicted 40 separate
injuries, strangled, smothered and dumped her in a trailer</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #127 For Megan Bannister</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Extra ride #33 for unnamed woman bullied to take her own
life by vile rapist. She</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"> cannot be
named as her anonymity is protected so I called her Ms Sheffield as that is
where she was killed. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #128 for Sinead Wooding- Was stabbed multiple times
and hit repeatedly with a hammer by her husband. He then attempted to burn her
body before dumping it in a wood to be found. He had been harassing another
woman just days before and was a serial abuser. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #129 for Concepta Leonard stabbed to death by
partner who also stabbed her son. She had a non-mol order</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #130 for Gemma Leeming whose partner strangled her
to death and wrote “no brain” on her face in mascara. He desecrated her
body+wrote on her in her own blood so that it would look like he was having a
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few weeks - he had previously set a woman on fire in 2010</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #133 for Arena Saeed and her children. Husband
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stabbed in neck repeatedly by ex - he also attacked her son </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #136 for Jean Chapman. Husband battered her over
the head with a vase made by her son. Then strangled her.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #137 for Molly McLaren who ended a
relationship-always the most dangerous time for women with abusive men.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #138 for Vera Savage - aged 89 was found stabbed to death and her
son found alongside her. Police said she was murdered but he was not. They
weren't looking for anyone else. Why on Earth can they not just admit when men
murder women? It is not unusual on these lists to find sons are the murderers
and it is the ultimate betrayal. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #139 for Celine Dookhran uncle slit her throat
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #140 for Olivia Kray whose father strangled her and
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #141 for Betty Jordan - murdered by her estranged husband who drove
to her home and stabbed her to death because he thought she was having an
affair. Reports focus on the fact that he was wrong. Firstly, a woman who is
not in a current relationship cannot be "unfaithful" to a man she has
split from. Secondly - infidelity is still not a reason to murder a woman. Men
do not own women. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #142 for Leanne Collopy whose ex stabbed her to
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #143 for Rikki Lander - husband read a text and was
jealous so beat her round the head and strangled her. He then hanged himself
leaving their 3 kids in the house</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Extra Ride #144 at the request of friends of Shabnam
Bhardwaj who was murdered a few days ago in Himachal Pradesh in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/India?src=hash"><span style="color: #5c00a4; font-family: "times new roman"; text-decoration: none;"></span><span style="color: #5c00a4; text-decoration: none;">#India</span></a>
by her husband who it is alleged hung her body to look like suicide. The police
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #145 for Hannah Cohen - Murdered by her brother who suspected he had
been cut out of the family will and business. Men cannot murder women who don't
do what they want even if they are family. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #146 for Leah Cohen whose son allegedly stabbed her
to death because annoyed about a family will. He also allegedly murdered his
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #147 for Beryl Hammond murdered by her son after
many violent assaults reported and sadly retracted. He broke 10 ribs and left
her to decompose - the pain of love she must have felt for a son who finally
killed her.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #148 for Asiyah Harris. Her ex-partner stabbed her
3 times in the neck finally severing an artery. He had arranged for her 2
children to be out of the house.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #149 for Jessica King. Jealous ex partner strangled
her to death with her children in the house. He told her “if I can’t have you
no one can!” Many women will recognise this phrase. Other women. Fear it. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Extra Ride #150 for Rachel Slack at the request of her
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- she was stabbed 32 times in the chest and back by her ex along with her son
Auden after significant police failuresHe also asked her “What do you think I’m
going to do?” And she replied “I know what you’re going to do. You’re going to
kill me.” We always suspect they might. Long after we are free. Every time you
see them or hear their voice. A lifetime of fear.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #151 for Linda Parker stabbed 12 times by an ex
partner who had stalked her relentlessly after she ended a coercive relationship
that had kept her from friends and family. She had a restraining order</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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more than 20 times in the neck before putting her body in bin bags and dumping
her in woodland because she wanted to end the marriage</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #153 for Katherine Smith who was stabbed 33 times
in the heart, neck + chest by an obsessive partner she met online who lied
about his name and forced her to have a tattoo of those initials and stalked
her movements relentlessly.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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serious sexual offences unit strangled by her police officer husband and dumped
in a lake as he callously tried to cover up crime including sending “loving”
texts to her phone post-murdering her</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #155 for Jane Sergeant smothered with a duvet by
her husband who took her from a care home where she was being cared for
alleging “compassion”. Men don’t get to decide to kill women for ANY reason.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Extra Ride #156 for Shaeen Akhtar - husband stabbed
her to death in front of her children after she asked him to leave due to his
drinking and gambling. She couldn’t push him out of the door in time to stop
him. He’d stored a combat knife in his trousers</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Extra ride #157 for Barbara Francis whose husband
murdered her in 1995 and then committed suicide. As these cowards often do. She
was according to her friend <a href="https://twitter.com/Janerthered"><span style="color: #5c00a4; font-family: "times new roman"; text-decoration: none;"></span><span style="color: #5c00a4; text-decoration: none;">@Janerthered</span></a> a wonderful Jamaican woman who was
hoping to return there one day and open a cafe</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #158 for Moira Gilbertson stabbed to death
allegedly by her ex who hid her body and carried on texting her friends as
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #159 for Sophie Louise Brook strangled with
electrical flex in 2015 by her husband who then wrapped her body in plastic and
hid it in communal bins. This was an extra ride at the request of her friend
who I met in Truro on Saturday. Her friend asked me not to use her married name
and could not control her tears as she spoke of her love for Sophie. She shook
as she told me. The devastation of losing a friend in this way will never leave
her. I’ll never forget hugging that poor woman</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #160 - for Anne O' Neill. Battered to death around the head by her
son in the garden as neighbours heard him shout "I will find you". The
priest at her funeral said it was a "double tragedy" though only she
was dead. The priest said "</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">we've made bad choices or made mistakes, or sometimes we are victims of
circumstance, life seems to have thrown us a raw deal".... and yet only
the woman is dead. She didn't get to make poor choices. She was murdered. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #161 for Elizabeth Merriman estranged from her
husband who stabbed her many times with a samurai sword when he found she had
begun a new relationship. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #162 for Janet Northmore strangled to death by her
son in his home. He never stood trial because he killed himself in jail. Always
after the poor woman ...not first.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #163 for Jillian Howell- murdered by a colleague she invited to
dinner who had developed an obsession with her. She rejected him so he stabbed
her 15 times. He wrote "bully" on her forehead and posted a cartoon
on Facebook afterwards which read "stand up to bullies and then kill
them". She was not a bully. He is a murderer. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #164 for Mary Steel stabbed a number of times by
her own son. There are a number of women killed by their sons that I have
ridden for. Women raise men and they kill them as reward. The ultimate
betrayal.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #165 for Simone Grainger whose husband hit her with
a saucepan and then strangled her to death. He hid her body in a rug so her
daughter didn’t see her. She described her marriage as “worst mistake of my
life” poor woman. She wasn’t to blame</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Extra ride #167 for Deborah Ruse at the request of her
friend. Her jealous husband hacked her to death repeatedly with an axe
including her face, head and neck. He carried on while she was on the floor
bleeding and dying </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #168 for Patricia McIntosh whose ex-husband smashed
her in the face with a saucepan and then repeatedly kicked her until she was
dead because she wouldn’t sell her home.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #169 for Lisa Chadderton whose partner strangled
her and punched her before stabbing her 5 times in the neck and once in the eye
in a jealous rage.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #170 for Monika Lasek - after years of violence and
coercion -husband stabbed her repeatedly including as she crawled along the
floor trying to escape the attack. The police had been called just the week
before.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #171 for Ruby Wilson. Her grandson brought many
knives to kill her in her care home. She was 94 when he slit her throat at both
sides. Terror and betrayal are still felt by elderly women with dementia.
Murder isn’t merciful.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #172 for Susan Westwood whose son stabbed her
multiple times because she complained that her tea was too milky. Her family
said she loved him very much.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #173 for Janine Bowater strangled to death by her
ex-partner who then raped her while she was unconscious </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #174 for Jodie Willsher. Her mother’s ex-partner
stabbed her repeatedly in the chest and stomach as revenge because her mum had
ended the relationship with him </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #175 for Beverley Bliss punched repeatedly then
stabbed to death by her son who left the knife in her throat afterwards as he
sat drinking tea at her kitchen table - excused made for him. There are no
excuses for murdering women</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #176 for Jayne Reat stabbed to death by her
partner’s son as she prevented her own daughter from being murdered by him too
as she shielded her. This is what mothers do. We die for our children. Women
are mighty</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #177 for Pauline Cockburn who was stabbed to death
by her violent partner. He had previously had guns removed by police. But he
found a way. They should have removed him. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #178 for Anne Searle strangled to death by her
husband after posting on her Facebook that she hoped to be around in 2018 but
“we will see”. Despite what has been said at trial she knew her life was at
risk because she lived with a murderer.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "avenir medium"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Ride #179 for Melanie Clark murdered by her husband who
stabbed her because of her love for another woman. He felt she was laughing at
him. It is not an excuse to murder a woman because she ridicules your penis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #180 for Julie Owens.
Another woman murdered by her son. It was the ultimate betrayal as he punched
her to death. Not for the 1st time. He called it a “slap”. He initially blamed
her partner who’d hit her weeks before. Poor woman beaten and betrayed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #181 for Elizabeta
Lacatusu whose former partner waited outside her home before stabbing her for
30 seconds in the neck and torso before calmly walking away. She had rejected
his attempts to get her back after she ended the relationship<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #182 for Terrie-Ann
Jones stabbed 26 times by her repeatedly violent controlling boyfriend who had
threatened to blow up her family and kill her. He said he didn’t mean it to
police. He meant it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #183 for Claire
Taverner whose jealous, controlling estranged husband stabbed her 10 times and
left her bleeding for her two boys aged 3 and 6 to find. They sat with her body
for an hour before calling police. Poor babes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #184 for Geraldine
Mellor whose boyfriend strangled her to death after a row about her wanting to
purchase things in a shop he didn’t sanction. He left her lying in boxes.
Abusers control even what women buy. A warning sign.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #185 for Amelia Blake
who was bludgeoned to death while backpacking by a boyfriend she met on her
travels who did not like her freedom to roam and potential to leave him<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #186 for Cassie
Hayes. Still so fresh in our memories. Her girlfriend’s ex partner slit her
throat in her workplace in lesbophobic vengeance. This is still domestic
violence as he intended to leave his ex traumatised forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harris whose ex partner claimed at his trial that she fell. She was strangled
with 86 injuries and half of them to her head and face. Never believe what an
abuser tells you about how he didn’t mean to hurt you. He means it every time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #188 for Cheryl
Gabriel-Hooper who was shot in the neck outside her home after reporting a
number of incidents of domestic violence to police. A man of the same age as
her ex husband is still under investigation after also suffering gunshot
wounds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #189 for Janet Scott
who was stabbed by a former partner who then drive her away in his car. She
escaped and he then drove his car at her and the policeman she ran to for help.
Abusers are very determined men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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whose partner strangled her with his bare hands and then pretended he had
defended himself - taking money from her account and telling builders she was
“sleeping”. Abusive men lie. All the time. Listen for that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #191 for Ruksana
Begum stabbed by her son-in-law as she helped her daughter escape her arranged
marriage to him - a violent abuser - so that she could be with the man she
loved. He stabbed her through the heart and in the body 3 times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #192 for Saeeda
Hussein found with serious head injuries. Her husband is charged with her
murder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">-Ride #193 Danielle
Richardson who was stabbed 15 times by her boyfriend who then jumped from a
window. And lived. (I only rode 12 and a half miles as I was pretty tired out
and nausea kicked in - but I did think of her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #194 for Sarbjit
Kaur. She was murdered by asphyxiation and her husband stands trial next month.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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whose husband got drunk and strangled her to death but was only convicted of
manslaughter because the jury believed his story that she was “nasty” to him.
Women who aren’t “nice” to men still don’t deserve to be killed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #196 for Lynn McNally
who was murdered by her partner who stabbed her multiple times and left her
body with the knife sticking in her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #197 for Laura
Huteson who was brutally stabbed to death - allegedly by a man she met a few
hours before and went home with. Women who have sex with men are not
responsible when those men take out a knife suddenly and stab them ..as media
suggested<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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aged 74 stabbed 30 times in the back and chest by her own grandson who finally
slit her throat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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De Farida who was stabbed multiple times by her husband who then drove her two
sons to a cliff & threw them off. He also went off the cliff. But I care
nothing for him. Or any man who kills a woman and her children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Scourfield whose stepson murdered her with an axe and a samurai sword. The
excuse was that he was obsessed with violent images online. Women see those
images too and manage not to murder men we live with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #201 for Jennifer
Rodgers who was murdered by her estranged and homeless ex husband. The CPS
accepted a manslaughter guilty plea on the grounds of diminished
responsibility. He *diminished* her life. The CPS should reject the paltry
excuses of men<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #202 for Michelle
Savage who left her husband -a violent abuser - and subsequently rejected his
attempts to “reconcile”. He shot her 6 times along with her mother. He had
bombarded her with texts, slashed her tyres etc etc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride 203 for Heather
Whitbread shot 6 times execution style alongside her daughter Michelle Savage
by her daughter’s ex-partner. He had been terrorising her - posting revenge
porn and demanding sex and was known to the police<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #204 for Diane Jones
whose son hit her repeatedly over the head with a claw hammer and she died
later in hospital. When mental ill-Health is used to excuse murdering women we
ask “why do these men only kill the women close to them and no one else?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #205 for Jenny Cronin
.... her daughter’s ex-husband set her on fire after storming her house with a
machete. Men who abuse women sometimes also abuse and kill their families.
There are no boundaries to their hatred of a woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #206 for Leyla Mtumwa
whose husband stabbed her 49 times in the head, face, arms and neck in a
jealous rage after she saw her female friends for a night out. He did this in
front of her 12 yr old son who pleaded with him to stop before calling police<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #207 for Tracy
Stonehouse. Her estranged husband strangled her, stabbed her six times and beat
her repeatedly around the head. He had said he would kill her when she left
him. Men often say this. Sometimes they do. Take those men seriously.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #208 for Lesley
Potter whose husband strangled her and then hung her to make it look like
suicide. He only confessed shortly before her funeral and her death wasn’t
initially seen as suspicious by police.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #209 for Alexis Flynn
murdered by her ex partner who had an order preventing contact due to prior
violent attacks on her. He breached bail and stabbed her 11 times. He was found
calmly smoking a cigarette and drinking a can of beer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #210 for Victorija
Sokolova ... just 14 years old who was raped by her male “friend” after he
arranged to meet her on FB messenger. He then smashed her skull in with a
hammer leaving 21 injuries to her skull and spine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #211 for Margaret
Howlett stabbed to death by her new husband who was annoyed not to be on her
mortgage as he had escalating gambling debts. He had already dwindled her
savings away. He stabbed her multiple times in the neck.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #212 for Maryna
Kavaliauskas ... she was found in her home next to a dead man and though police
said it was murder ... they weren’t seeking anyone else. Press more concerned
with ex husband cocaine dealer as though his crimes excuse her murder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">“Ride #213 for Angela
Craddock whose “violent drunk” ex beat and kicked her to death just 7 days
after being released from jail for attacking her before. She had to be
identified by her fingerprints.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #214 for Samantha
Clarke who was stabbed to death in her home. Her nephew arrested. The press
were more focused on how much her house cost. Women who have big houses are
still stabbed for being women. Not for the value of the walls they live within.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #215 for Jennifer
Morgan whose partner waited for her outside her house and stabbed her to death.
Her 11 year old daughter found her in a pool of blood when she returned home
from school. That poor poor little girl. Lives are shattered by men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #216 for Hollie
Kerrell whose had recently ended a marriage to her murderer who took revenge
hitting her with a hammer and strangling her with her children in the house.
Don’t ever ask “why doesn’t she leave” ...the answer lies alongside her body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #217 for Elizabeth
Lacey stabbed to death by her son who was subsequently detained under mental
health act. Imagine her extreme emotional pain - coping with an ill son who
then came to stab her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #218 for Fiona Fisher
murdered by her son with a single stab wound to the chest. He had addiction and
mental health problems. But... these men still always find the women who love
them to kill. Not random strangers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #219 for Faye
Calliman whose husband filmed himself standing over her as she cowered beneath
begging for her life before he stabbed her 12 times breaking his knife blade
off in her back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #220 for Jessica
Patel. Jessica endured years of control before her husband put a bag over her
head and suffocated her. she had expressed concerns for a long time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #221 for Onees
Khatoon strangled with electrical cable by her son because she asked him to
leave her home. Men who murder women do not like women to establish boundaries <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #222 for Bernadette
Green murdered by her son who smothered her after deliberately neglecting her.
She weighed 5 stone down from 12 stone. She most likely spent her last months
begging for food. That makes my heart ache<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #223 for Sophie
Cavanagh whose estranged husband strangled her because she refused to sleep
with him even though he offered her £100. Men who can’t own women, or buy them,
might kill them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #224 for Angela
Conoby who lived with a man for 30 years before he stabbed her in chest +neck
and left her covered and decomposing for 2 weeks in a corner of the room. How
many years of terror? All that life lost...unlikely to be “out of the blue”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #225 for Keely
McGrath who was murdered just before Christmas. She leaves behind her 5
children and heartbroken mum <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #226 for Laura
Mortimer whose ex partner stabbed her 18 times because angry she had asked him
to leave. He also stabbed her daughter Ella and left them lying alongside each
other. He had attacked her the previous Christmas and had a violent past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #227 for Ella
Mortimer age 11 stabbed 24 times in the face and neck by her step father as she
came to help her mother Laura who was also stabbed to death. They lay side by
side together in pools of blood when found.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #228 for Denise
Rosser whose partner beat her so viciously she had 28 rib fractures, a
punctured lung, fractured skull and torn kidney and it was said “only
consistent with a single impact like a car crash” Some men are like a car crash
for women..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #229 for Joanne
Bishop stabbed 28 times with a screwdriver in her chest and back. She lived for
4 days after the attack. He showed “no remorse”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #230 for Lamduan
Seekanya. Murdered in 2004 but body only just identified. She was left in a
remote area of pen-y-ghent. Police need help to find her killer. She was not a
“Thai Bride”. She was a woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #231 for Andra
Hilitanu murdered by her boyfriend who stabbed her 40 times with scissors also
killing her unborn child. All her injuries “survivable” but he didn’t call for
help. She died in agony.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #232 for Marie
Gibson. Her partner beat her with a baseball bat and stabbed her in the neck
with a shard of glass. She died of brain and severe facial injuries. He said
she “goaded him”. Women are not to blame for men killing them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #233 for Gita Suri
stabbed to death - her partner and flatmate accused of stabbing her repeatedly
and dousing her in lighter fuel because annoyed she left the back door open and
didn’t flush the toilet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #234 for
Klarissa-Charlene Faith whose ex-partner trusted him enough to continue to live
in the same house. He took her on an errand then brought her home and strangled
her to death. Abusers are always potential murderers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #235 for Samantha
Toms whose ex partner smothered her to death and then called his family to tell
them and ask them to come and help him “remove” her dead body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #236 for Lorna Myers
stabbed to death by her son who also attempted to murder her other son. He was
“paranoid”. He also had a a previous conviction for battering a partner. Forget
paranoia. That’s woman hating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #237 for Patricia
Franks. Her husband killed her with a scaffolding pole then smothered her
because she had dementia and he couldn’t cope. Men never have the right to make
those decisions to kill women out of “mercy”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #238 for Katerina
Makunova who was so scared of her partner she took a knife in her bag but when
he pushed her and she fell -it was on the knife in her bag and so he killed
her. Police had been called to him 6 times before. He got 2 yrs and 3 months<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #239 for Sheila
Thomas who left her husband who then stabbed her in the head and neck and
bludgeoned her head with a stick until it broke. She had left him for a man she
had known since 1975 and could have been - and deserved to be - happy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #240 for Samantha
Eastwood whose vile boyfriend suffocated her and then bound her mouth and eyes
with tape before laying out her wedding dress and engagement ring on the bed to
fool police<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #241 for Karen Peter
whose husband strangled her and then set fire to the house while her 3 children
were asleep. Once alight he refused to let anyone into the bedroom where she
was locked and told firefighters she had gone out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #242 for Kelly
Franklin who ended an abusive 12 year relationship with her abuser. He then
used another woman to find her and stab her more than 30 times when he found
her in the street.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #243 for Katherine
Kemp found in a pool of blood with over 20 knife wounds. Her husband - who had
previously exploited prostitutes - subsequently jumped out of the window and
killed himself. He should have done this first.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #244 for Tracey
Evans. Her partner cut her throat from ear to ear 4 times almost severing her
tongue. A judge said she “suffered dreadfully”. He blamed his diabetes. I blame
him. Just him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #245 for Marie Walker
whose partner strangled her to death after months of jealous accusations about
a co-worker. He found no proof. But killed her anyway. Women are not obliged to
be faithful to men who abuse them. It is not an excuse to kill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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whose partner killed her by stabbing her in the throat. She was a talented
singer and a campaigner to raise awareness of sickle cell disease. She lost her
son aged 6 to the disease.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #247 for Barbara
Davison whose partner smothered her to death. He had previously been convicted
of *manslaughter* for strangling a previous girlfriend in 1995. This is why
courts shouldn’t give abusive, murderers the benefit of the doubt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Extra Ride#248 for Ellie
Gould who it is suspected was murdered. I rode to honour her short life and
acknowledge the future she lost. My sincere sympathy for her poor poor family
and friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #249 for Kaltoun
Saleh died after 6 weeks in a Burns unit. Her husband was accused of setting
her on fire. His clothes had white spirit on them. Argument heard by neighbours.
She screamed for water. He walked free. So I rode for her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #250 for Sharon
Perett Who was murdered with a number of blunt force trauma injuries to her
head, chest and neck. Police referred themselves to complaints. Her partner
denies murder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #251 for Raneem Oudeh
whose ex partner stabbed her mother first while holding onto Raneem’s ankle and
dragging her. They both died of multiple stab wounds after he hunted them all
day. They called police 5 times in 2 hours. To no avail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #252 for Khaola
Saleem. Murdered by her daughter’s ex partner who had hunted them all day while
they desperately tried to get police to help them. He stabbed them both
multiple times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #253 for Celia Levitt
murdered by her son who strangled her and smothered her. He was detained under
mental health act. So many “moments of madness” men only kill women. Never
their male co worker or brother or the bloke in the shop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #254 for Kylie
Dembrey stabbed to death inc 3 times in the jugular +her heart and also strangled
by her partner who claims it wasn’t murder because “mental illness”. “Mentally
ill” men kill women who love them a lot rather than the man in the street<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #255 for Susan Gyde
murdered in her home. Police arrived too late after reports of a serious
assault. Her husband will go on trial 24th June. The police need to up their
game. This is the second ride in a couple of weeks where<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they were too late<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #256 for Kay
Richardson whose husband killed her before killing himself. They had parted 2 weeks
before and he asked on Facebook if she was still wearing “his” ring. You don’t
own women with a ring +cant kill them cos they take it off<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #257 for Cristina
(Kyky) Magda-Calancea who was stabbed by her former partner multiple times in
the neck and torso. Her family said she was “extremely happy ... had a specific
laugh”. They will never hear that laugh again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #258 for Frances
Hubbard. Aged 81. Stabbed multiple times by her husband. He had to be shot with
rubber bullets to be arrested so violent was his attack. These murderous men
are never too old to kill +the women with them never old enough to be safe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #259 for Sandra
Zmijan. A man has been charged with murder after she travelled to his home and
was found dead in his back garden. She had been reported missing. He allegedly
battered her to death with a hammer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #260 for Jeanna Maher
her husband is accused of murdering her by tying her hands and feet together
before hitting her with a mallet - he’s also accused of repeatedly abusing her
since 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #261 for Avan
Najmadeen who refuses to sign her ex husband’s immigration papers so he stabbed
her to death and doused her body in white spirit leaving her 4 children without
their mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #261 for Natalie
Saunders who was subjected to hours of a brutal attack by her boyfriend with 85
separate blows and 50 injuries to every part of her body. He then strangled
her. She was 33 years old. She had come to see “violence as the norm”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #262 for Sarah
Wellgreen whose ex partner has been arrested and charged with her murder. Her
body has not been found. Her family must live in agony.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #263 for Nazia Ali
today. Her story is horrific. Her ex husband bought ropes, knives, hammer and
screwdriver especially to kill her. He used them to tie her up and beat and
stab her to death while her children slept then calmly called police<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #264 for Teresa
Garner whose husband hit her with a hammer until she was dead including 16 head
wounds. He had been violent to 3 other ex partners including putting a
cigarette out in one woman’s face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #265 for Lynn Forde
killed by her boyfriend who then killed himself. He had strangled her then
killed himself after ringing police to confess. So many of these abusers do
this. Always kill the woman first just to be sure she doesn’t live happily<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #266 for Mavis Bran.
She was 69 and ran a chip shop. Her husband is charged with her murder. She
died of extensive burns. In the chip shop. The pain of what happened to her is
unthinkable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #267 for Sheena
Jackson. Her husband found “ill” alongside her but he later died. Police say
she was murdered but were not looking for anyone else. Yet another man
*probably* murdering a woman +not having to pay for it because cowardice saved
him<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #268 for Ann Marie
Pomfret who was pronounced dead at her stables. She loved horse riding. She had
serious head injuries. Her husband has been charged with her murder and awaits
trial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #269 for Natalie
Smith who wanted to leave her partner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She was staying at a friends and went home to collect things. He came
home and stabbed her to death. Then stabbed himself. Her children were outside
in the car with her friend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #270 for Tanseen
Sheikh who was murdered and had “multiple injuries”. Her husband has been
arrested.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #272 for Maureen
Watkins stabbed multiple times. Her son - who lived in her home for the last 30
years - has been charged. Imagine. Loving a child; caring for them - only for
them to stab you to death. The pain of her last moments. The betrayal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #273 for Jacqueline
Allen who was murdered in an arson attack just hours after reporting her
daughter’s ex partner to the police for threats made against her daughter. Man
believed to be the same has been arrested and charged with murder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #274 for Samantha
Gosney whose manipulative, abusive boyfriend stabbed her 21 times - some of the
wounds so deep they hit the bones of her spine. She had attended a funeral
looking “nice” and he objected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #275 for Kelly Worgan
whose husband strangled her with a ligature. He left a note on the stairs
asking that her children not be let in the room with her body and “daddy loves
you”... yet he destroyed their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "avenir medium"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Ride #276 for Grace
Millane murdered and her body left at the side of a busy road while backpacking
in New Zealand. A man has been charged with her murder. The man’s team mates
said he was “creepy”. It is suspected he lured her into a date on a website<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">You do as you are
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Jean Hatchethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17366431067037109280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370704414807518712.post-60773676822719070962019-01-25T13:04:00.002+00:002019-01-28T12:04:26.258+00:00Why I won't be 'standing for women'. <span style="color: red;">*No radical feminist woman or feminist women's group that I know of in the UK has ever accepted any funding from any right wing group in the US or elsewhere. That includes the trip to the US organised by a group of women. Speaking at or attending a lunch with The Heritage Foundation is not the same as "being funded by". I never suggested otherwise. All lies about this being distributed by trans activists are blatantly and completely untrue. </span><br />
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I'm going to state really simply. Stripped of opinion and emotion. as far as reasonably possible. <br />
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1. I invited myself on a trip. Posie Parker had planned to go and hold a banner outside Twitter to highlight the silencing of women who object to trans ideological assaults on women's rights. It seemed a decent way of protesting. I certainly needed a break too after a pretty crappy year.<br />
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2. Posie didn't consult with me when she flipped the trip to Washington and changed the focus - but she assured me "stuff is happening that is going to be amazing and Meghan Murphy is coming down." I was excited because I admire Murphy. I admire Venice Allan and some of the other women involved. I booked and paid for my own flight. I don't have much money at the moment. I didn't realise at that time that the Women of Liberation Front were brought on board. When I was told I researched a bit.<br />
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3. I read about Kara Dansky seeking and gaining $15,000 from Alliance Defending Freedom which is a right wing religious group strongly against abortion. I read their reasons for doing so. It was to pursue a Supreme Court case. I don't like those reasons. I understand them. I just don't agree. <a href="http://womensliberationfront.org/statement-on-malicious-rumors/">WoLF statement</a><br />
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I raised my hand to object to pairing with them. I was ignored. I raised it again. I was ignored. I thought I must be wrong because everyone else was fine with this. <br />
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4. I kept asking about these right wing links. My questions were either ignored or met with "It's not a problem for me". Posie said she is happy to work with anyone and will freely say so. I am not.<br />
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5. On a personal level it is hard to go on a trip with women when you are the only one not doing things. I began to feel isolated from the group for saying I disagreed with the political decisions of other women. I was uncomfortable saying that I was unhappy with things because I was being housed in accommodation in Washington paid for by one of the WoLF women - though I had certainly NOT been told this in advance. Being "paid for" meant I wasn't comfortable saying ideas were bad. I didn't join planning sessions and couldn't really keep up with what was planned. I was left out of all decision making. I deliberately absconded from meetings. At one point when I asked what I would be doing exactly Posie said "just turn up and get on the plane". I wasn't speaking at anything. I wasn't involved in anything that I could see. I thought I might do some bike rides for murdered women while there since I felt a bit superfluous anyway.<br />
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6. When a meeting with people called The Heritage Foundation was scheduled, and the others said they were going, I said I'd go as I felt left out of so much of what was being planned. I wanted to go to exciting things and I genuinely didn't know what it was. I don't know much about American politics and I didn't know who they were. I investigated them a bit more when Posie said she was surprised I'd want to go. I realised my mistake. I should have looked first. I will hold my hand up here. I wobbled. I signed up. I tried to convince myself I could go as an "experience" or even, as one woman I know suggested, go along and tell them what I really thought of their views on abortion etc. In the end I realised my gut instinct was right. I then said there was no way I could attend a meeting or lunch with them. I called them "misogynist w**kers" because they are. They advocate keeping poor women in marriages they wish to exit in order to solve the social problems those women "cause" government. They say abortion harms women. They say they will help Trump to "drain the swamp". I don't care what these people think about trans ideology. That cannot be separated from the things they do and advocate that specifically harm women. <a href="https://www.heritage.org/civil-society/commentary/why-pro-lifers-have-cause-hope">https://www.heritage.org/civil-society/commentary/why-pro-lifers-have-cause-hope</a><br />
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When I raised my objections to the group I was ignored. No one said anything for over 2 hours in one exchange. It would be funny if it didn't make me feel like I was going bonkers. I now see the women distancing themselves from this group. I wish they had made that plain before. But they did not. WoLF women signed up to go and speak to them and the British women to go and eat with them and talk with them after the panel meeting. I have added this for clarity about who is doing what.<br />
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7. I was in a difficult position and my partner suggested I could go on the trip and just stay out of the right wing meetings and plans I didn't agree with. I wanted to march and protest and meet other feminist women. However I know that in reality you can't pick and choose. If there are links with abhorrent right wing groups it is unacceptable to take part in any of it. I knew that I would still be seen as agreeing with anything Posie does if I am on a trip alongside her. I don't agree with lots of it. She doesn't ask anyone's opinion anyway. It is very hard to tell Posie when you don't agree with her. She stops speaking to you. I finally said I was unable to come on the trip. I stated that the reason is the right wing and/or religious links being formed. I wished the group well with the We Need To Talk style event where Meghan Murphy will speak. I like Venice Allan and the talks she organises are brilliant. I'm sure it will be interesting to watch.<br />
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In response to my withdrawal message to the organising group I was accused of "purity politics" by one of the WoLF women and this was reiterated by Posie. I am angry about that. I don't really know what it is supposed to mean. I call it feminism actually. Another woman tried to silence me by saying I am "destructive" for tweeting my "divisive" opposition to the Heritage Foundation panel that she will speak on. The irony of being told not to speak on social media about a trip opposing the silencing of women is not lost on me. The trouble is if I happen to spot someone trying to manipulate me I will usually do exactly what I like.<br />
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I might have stayed quiet about all this. If it wasn't for the Feminist Current podcast that appeared this morning. The one where, amongst other things, Posie Parker discusses Tommy Robinson. She dismisses the work of feminist women who fought to expose grooming gangs and the cover up a few years ago as ineffective. That is a massive insult. She suggests that we didn't do enough. That is a massive insult. She suggests that Tommy Robinson filled a gap that women's groups and others left open. That is a massive insult. Tommy Robinson used the merciless sexual exploitation of mainly working class girls to further an anti-islamist agenda. Posie Parker says she needs evidence of this. The word of feminist women who worked against the grooming gangs should be enough. It really should.<br />
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I don't need a week of action. I am a feminist all year round. I will be sitting down for women...on a bike. I'll be doing that all year too. I won't be knowingly riding alongside any gun-toting, woman-hating anti-abortionist racists.<br />
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Lots of women are feminists. This week belongs to them too. I do not belong to Posie Parker. No one owns me.<br />
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Thank you to all the women and girls who worked hard to raise awareness around grooming gangs, including the girls themselves. Thanks to Andrew Norfolk at The Times. None of us needed Tommy Robinson.<br />
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Jean Hatchet.<br />
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(NB. It is my opinion - and I stand by it - that moves taken by feminist women (whether radical feminist or not) towards right wing groups are not taken in isolation from other feminist women. They inevitably diminish the hard work of other women and other women's groups. This blog has been used by trans activists since I first published it to discredit all women objecting to trans ideology. I am being held responsible for that and accused of sabotage. I think the women who should be held responsible for bringing the work of women into disrepute or "handing it to trans activists on a plate" is not the woman who didn't go along with it ... but the ones who did. Trans activists have been lying about feminist funding for a long time. They watch us like hawks and swoop in and lie about much of what we do. They do this anyway. They would have found out about this meeting - what on Earth made these women think they would not? With or without my blog this nonsense move was out in the public arena. I read criticism of it by another radical feminist woman days before I published. I am also concerned at being told to be quiet. That feels a lot like silencing. One woman being told to shut up by women who are more powerful and rich feels really really shady.)<br />
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<br />Jean Hatchethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17366431067037109280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370704414807518712.post-51370548555306717992018-11-02T07:03:00.001+00:002018-11-02T07:03:40.124+00:00Emma Humphrey's Prize. My Speech. My thank you speech read by Shonagh Dillon.<br />
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(The words are mine and no dissatisfaction with those words should be aimed at Shonagh who agreed to read them for me. )<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We have been told not to discuss loos. Especially women's loos. It is apparently the height of transphobia and fascism and we are immediately aligned with Donald Trump. Or some fanatical religious right wing group who hate everyone. All of this is utter nonsense to stop us speaking about everyday concerns for women if men are allowed into our loos. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Here is a blog where women refuse to do what they have been told. They are discussing women's loos. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The comments below reflect women's concerns about "gender neutral" loos which are a resulting "compromise" to excluding trans women from women's loos. Which we have been told is unkind. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif;">Women are unhappy. Lots of women are unhappy about this and we are being made to feel guilty for talking about it at work, or in public or in restaurants and bars. But actually ....lots of women don't use a rape crisis centre or a refuge where single sex </span><span style="font-family: "times", "times new roman", serif;">space and our rights to it are more immediately necessary to defend</span><span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif;">. But we all use loos. This is what I found when I asked women how they feel about men in their loos. Any men. This is not about trans women. It is about women's experiences of men. Of women's girlhoods. Of their need for the safety of a place where they take down their knickers and change their tampons and sanitary towels. Of the places where women need to be alone sometimes. Of the places where women attend to the functional biological needs of their female bodies. Of the places women most fear to be alone if a man walks in. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Some of this may shock you. Some of it might make you laugh. Some of it will make you angry. If you are a woman ....you will nod your head a lot. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">So here we are.... women talking about women's loos. And we are NOT ASHAMED....</span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>“I don't believe women are generally comfortable with people who are clearly male- bodied using female facilities. We have single -sex facilities for good reasons”</b></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><i>“I went in to the female toilet at a local college recently
& a young man was in there teasing / irritating / harassing (depending on
your POV) female students. He wasn't a 'risk' as such. He was just an entitled
male enjoying his power. A small but distressing non-incident”</i></span><span style="color: #101214;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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local gay bar toilets. I said no, and he loudly accused me of being
transphobic” </i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i>“Regular experience (male cleaners) tend to receive a brief nod
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pings then I leave instantly. <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i>I was sexually assaulted in a unisex toilet when I was 13 and
have never felt safe since”</i></span><span style="color: #101214;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“I never said anything because a) I was afraid they might turn
violent & b) depending on the type I feared they'd be attacked in the men's
which would make me feel guilty. But it wouldn't have been my fault, it would
have been the violent man”</i></span><span style="color: #101214;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“They never asked any of us did they? They just walked in and
took advantage of us being smaller and conditioned to be "kind". They
seem to feel even more entitled than the average man, funnily enough”</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p><i><span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: large;">“I used to work in IT as a manager and this was back in the days when I believed the propaganda about trans women being oppressed. Part of my team worked on a site where the adjoining building had been closed. There was no ladies toilet in the building still in use so they left access to ladies in the other building for the occasional user, (some shifts there wasn't anyone using it). There was a transwoman working in a different team on shift work who was older than me and a junior grade to me. He would try and engage me in chitchat in the kitchen which I avoided as there was an aggressive edge in his manner to me and he seemed to have a 50s view of womanhood that I didn't share. He was also a foot taller than me and muscular build. When we were both in the office it felt like he would follow me to the ladies when he saw me go and would always try and engage me in conversation in the ladies. I didn't know him, and had no reason to engage at work as when he had a request of my team he was supposed to deal directly with my onsite team. One time he stood so he was physically blocking me from leaving the ladies and forced me to have some inane 'girly' conversation, (about makeup I think) before moving. I knew the building was deserted and it was clear to him I wanted to leave. I was too afraid to try and push past as I was never going to win a physical tussle so I had to pretend and take part in this conversation to fulfil his fantasy of how women talk in the toilets before he moved aside and let me leave. I felt afraid and also furious that I was being forced to *perform* in his fantasy. After that incident I never spent a full day at that office again and always ensured I went to the toilet before visiting so that I didn't have to use the ladies there. It was over 10 years ago, an incident he probably gave no more thought to and an incident that I thought HR would not take seriously and would rebound on me so I didn't report it. It was also an incident that I tried to avoid thinking about when I was being a good little ally as it didn't fit the narrative. In retrospect I'm relieved I didn't realise at the time many trans women retain their penis as the situation would have been even more scary”</span></i></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">“The George Bar in Dublin used to have an open policy on men in
the toilets. It was all great fun until a woman was brutally raped a few years
ago. They stopped men from entering the women's toilets for a few years, but
have since bowed to pressure, but have staff present now”</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><b>“In June this year at the ferry port in Calais in the early
hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was totally empty apart from
him and he was between me and the exit and he looked like he was not a
particularly nice fellow. V scared. Went back in stall, locked it and got
husband to come to door and meet me. He heard that and scarpered. Was v scary
experience and if a woman had been there alone I dread to think what might have
happened. Port authorities said they’d keep their eye out, but they were
swamped in security issues so couldn’t give it priority”</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><i>“When I was 13 a man walked in off the street into my all girls
school and sat in the toilets. It took
us a while to work out what to do. We
notified a teacher. When the teacher
came he walked very calmly away.”</i></span></b><span style="color: #101214;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>“I used a mix sex bathroom. 3 men stood right outside my shower
cubicle, i could see their feet under the door gap. They then crowded round me
right on my shoulder- watching me as i brushed my teeth at the sinks.”</b></span><span style="color: #101214;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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misuse as part of their service has turned their toilets into unisex. The
toilets are upstairs which is very quiet. I had to use them today - I was on my
own in there and a man who was clearly a substance misuse patient was in there
too. I didnt even bother washing my hands - as a DV/A and rape survivor I was
deeply uncomfortable.”</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b><i>“Man at work had just declared himself to be a woman and
demanded use of the ladies (no other transition...clothing still blue jeans and
grey hoody etc) and a woman voiced that she was not happy sharing the toilet.
She was told by managers to use the toilet downstairs in a different office and
department. Men's feelings always over women's feelings! Obvs no one else
comfortable but legally we have to as far as I understand” <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></div>
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saw a bloke go in the ladies. Followed him in, asked him to leave. He put his
hand in my face and ordered me out. None of my business and he was 'gay anyway'
he said 'the girls' didn't mind, he said. Not what the faces of the women
standing behind him told me. He continued to face me down till my male manager
heard the commotion and told him to leave. He then obeyed”</i></b></span><span style="color: #101214;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">“Ladies' toilet (daytime) on an surface level Tube station. Man
with cubicle door unlocked, trousers round ankles. I think tbf he was more
alarmed than I was. Still upsetting”</span></i><span style="color: #101214;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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engaged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Man exited and looked slightly
embarrassed to see me. When I went in I realised why... spent 5 minutes
cleaning up after him before I could go to the loo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Revolting.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><i>“I went into the Ladies at Gatwick Airport and noticed that the
toilet seat was very wet. I then realised it was urine, not water. Not just a
few splashes, but well soaked. Took a lot of loo roll to mop it all up and dry
the seat. Someone could have sat on that! Disgusting”</i></span><span style="color: #101214;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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at theatre intermission & yelled at us to 'hurry up'.”</b></span><span style="color: #101214;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span>My mother who is well in her 70’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and is a very petite lady told me that on a bus trip to a nearby town,
she popped into Greggs (I think).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
went to the Ladies and was shocked to find them to be gender neutral toilets as
a large burley male was exiting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was
too scared to go in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She said there is
absolutely no way she would use toilets where males are allowed in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She doesn’t know a lot about the GRA although
I’m peaking both her and my dad as much as possible. She’s not the most
confident person and unlikely to change now, but older ladies need thinking
about too, not just these young “woke” lot who think they’re being so
inclusive!”</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>“I was sexually abused as a child by an adult male in a locked
toilet & as a teen by an adult male & I was raped twice in a train
toilet. I am traumatised by men in toilets, as happened last year when I
entered the ladies & a man was urinating in a cubicle with the door open”</b></span><span style="color: #101214;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a man is in the next cubicle?Do I loiter to let a female know what I know?I
feel angry and sick and unsafe.I am a female,I have no right to fear for my
safety or the safety of other females it seems”</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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distressed, he came out & I said That's the ladies! he just shrugged. I can
accept anyone into women's toilets, as long as they don't have a penis, because
for most of my life, penis has mostly been a weapon”</span></b><span style="color: #101214;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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came a big bloke(6ft+). Tbf he slipped in his heels & I said: Rubber
bottoms. He turned, thumbs up: Got it. The point is I shouldn't feel like this
& he needs a unisex/disabled loo cubicle & respectfully use it.”</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was this flasher guy outside the public toilets, naked, and trying to get our
attention, kind of waving himself around. Of course after that we changed our
route and felt scared about the whole thing. I really don't want boundaries
removed so that people like him would exploit it and feel able to be inside the
toilets too”</b></span><span style="color: #101214;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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in the cinema (aged 11 I think?) Again, the toilet is a safe space to flee to,
without any of those worries that women/girls are plagued with about being
polite and not upsetting anyone. The guy could have quite easily followed her
in if the rules were different :( “</i></span><span style="color: #101214;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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starting calling himself by a female name and over the next few months grew his
hair started wearing makeup false nails skirts etc one Saturday I went into the
ladies toilets -I was the only woman in there -he just followed me in there and
went into the next cubicle -I was so shocked & scared I stayed quiet in the
cubicle & just waited until he finally left -I only used the disabled
lockable single toilet after that -one of the reasons I left the organisation
-other staff would talk about "terfs" openly in the office”</b></span><span style="color: #101214;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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space where women went when the men got grabby, creepily persistent and
threatening. I saw several women hiding from violent boyfriends in them”</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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queue for the ladies in Selfridges in London and person walked in in a tight
white lycra dress, obviously male, hugely tall, square jawed but beautifully
turned out if you know what I mean? Little breathy fluttery voice (like John
Ozimek, but not him), giggly, just not how women behave in the queue for the
loos on their own. Anyway, two Muslim women immediately left, and then I
noticed that his enormous erection was clearly visible through his dress, no
attempt to hide it, just a kind of belligerent smile. One by one all the women
leave (except me, because I'm next and fucking busting, pelvic floor aint what
it was) and he just stands there staring at them as they go. Women coming out of
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16.0pt;">In October 2017 I began to ride
for all the women who were murdered during 2017 by men who are current or
former intimate partners or family members. I knew that as I started to
ride for Nicola Beck there were still more women who would be murdered before
the end of the year. That my list would keep growing. Thanks to Claire Moore
for continuing the terrible task of counting the women who die at the hands of
men they once loved and to Karen Ingala Smith for the soul-destroying work of
counting all femicides in the UK. I know how painful it is to see the names and
the bodies mount up behind them. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Here is a list of the women I
rode for previously who were murdered in 2016. </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://jeanhatchet.blogspot.com/2017/10/"><span style="color: #420178; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Women
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I have already begun to ride for
all the women murdered in 2018 ... and each week new bodies are discovered and
new reasons offered by police to excuse the terror of their murders. It is an
"isolated incident" and "no danger to the wider public".
There <b><i>is </i></b>a risk to the wider public. There <b><i>is</i></b> a
risk to any woman who has men in her life. Men who women know and have in their
lives are statistically a bigger risk to women than bombs carried by men she
doesn't know. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">During the year of riding
for these women I got fitter but I didn't get any less sad. Or angry. It is
still devastating to read each story. It is still a shock always </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16.0pt;">to hear the determination and hatred of men written in
the stories of how the women died. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">This year I have met some
women who were relatives or friends of women murdered. I have watched as they
struggled to say the name of the woman they loved deeply. Struggled to express
the horror of losing them and fought back tears as they spoke of the man who
killed them. I would ride for any woman whose friend or relative asked me to now if it helped a woman
feel that their loved woman was remembered and honoured. That I had heaved my weary body up hills for her. That I had climbed on my bike with her name and
her story in my head and my heart. That I had carried the weight of her pain on my back. Because I do. I remember every face and
every name. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I remember a woman saying
she could not follow me for a while because the stories are too traumatic and I
felt so sorry for her. I'm sure lots of women have had to do this and I totally
understand. Knowing how men who murder women hate us is very hard to accept and
read about. Knowing how vulnerable we are is difficult to stomach. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">This year brought new
challenges. There was the time that Lily Madigan, the trans women's officer for
Labour announced a charity bike ride after a series of tweets we exchanged
where Madigan said that I was not a feminist. Madigan never completed the
single bike ride. I completed 84. Feminists have commitment to ending male
violence as well as tweeting about it. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">By the time I had finished
the rides for 2016 and 2017 I had ridden over 4000 miles for 178 murdered
women. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I had also started to get
pain in my abdomen and swelling. I kept going thinking I might have pulled a
muscle or was just eating too much. Eventually I went to the doctors and found
that I had cell abnormalities in my blood tests. Subsequently this led to
ultrasound which led to a CT Scan which led to the revelation that I have
extensive and widespread ovarian cancer. I have continued to honour murdered
women and I will continue to do so as much as I can through my treatment. It is
important to me to make sure I do what I can - even in pain - to show that
women have to endure so much pain at the hands of men before they die. A woman
trapped in an abusive relationship is dying a little more every day. She is
dragged from her own world into the darkness of his. Sometimes that darkness
may lead to her murder. Abusive men are worse than cancer and harder to fight. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">We must do all we can to make spaces safe for those
women to access and escape violent men and resources to try to break them free
and get them there. Wearside Women in Need have accepted all the funds I have - and you have - raised so far and
have used them to fund an Independent Domestic Violence Advocate (IDVA) to work
with individual women at high risk of homicide. I want to continue to fund this
post as long as possible. I would like to raise much more if possible as
funding for refuges has been slashed by more than 17% since 2010. The government have lots of words. We have lots of love for women. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I have been targeted by
trans activists determined to prove I am transphobic because I don't ride for
trans women. But no trans women would be part of the demographic because none
of them died. The bodies are all female. The bodies who killed them are all
male. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">This project is
intrinsically linked to the need to establish safe space in refuges that
exclude male bodies whether self-identified as trans women or not. It is
crucial that women are able to recover in a space designated to keeping them
safe from male violence and that space cannot simultaneously contain males.
This is protected in the Equality Act 2010 and refuges must not be afraid to
use that provision. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">In order to fight the male
violence that leads to these horrific deaths it is important to establish valid
and trustworthy statistics that can clearly show the difference between the sexed
bodies of the perpetrator on this list- always male - and the victim - always female. Women
are targeted in this way because they are female. Statistics must reflect the
sex of both perpetrator and victim accurately. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Abusive men are responsible for
the blood of women running in our streets, for the tears running down their
faces, for the lost happiness of their children and the lost hope of their
mothers, sisters and friends. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Women are responsible for
remembering them and honouring them. We must love our sisters when men have broken them. Never forget these women.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #101214; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Below is a list of the
women I honoured with a bike ride...murdered in 2017 by men they once loved. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #4 for Kulwinder Kaur stabbed 3 times in the neck until dead by jealous ex-husband - murder is dark + cold</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #6 for Amandeep Kaur whose partner feared she would leave him so he slashed her neck before she was able to. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride#7 for Anita Downey whose partner slit her throat in front of his own son who then had to call 999.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #8 for Chrissy Kendall - strangled to death by controlling ex partner who left her body for her son to find</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #10 for Anne Forneaux who was murdered by her husband who battered her around the head with a hammer and stabbed her in the neck.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #11 for Tina Billingham stabbed through heart +liver with sword stick by partner who dumped her body in GP’s</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #12 for Hannah Dorans whose ex partner allegedly raped her and then strangled her. He also sent messages to her parents via Facebook causing them distress. He had behaved in an abusive and threatening way towards her before the alleged murder.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #13 for Catherine Kelly - murdered by her son who doused her in petrol and set her on fire</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Ride #15 in fog again for Humara Khan - husband bludgeoned her to death with a hammer for not making him a meal. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I hope every meal from now on tastes like death. I hope he vomits often. I hope he dies hungry</span><br />
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Ride #16 for Hazel Wilson-Briant stabbed to death by partner in front of kids screaming for someone to call 999. </div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">Ride #17 for Margaret Stenning stabbed to death by her husband in Spain where they had retired. Abusive men often isolate their victims by moving them to a home away from family and friends. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #18 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">for Avis Addison suffocated by her husband who refused all help for her during her descent into dementia</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Ride #19 for Beverley Hudson - stabbed by ex partner 22 times. He broke 2 knives and stabbed her daughter 5 times</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Ride #20 for Sarah Pitkin. Husband stabbed her in the neck multiple times - after previous abuse suspected</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Ride #21 for Justene Reece who killed herself as a result of an ex’s obsessive stalking and coercive control</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Ride #22 today for Anne-Marie James stabbed in the chest until dead by her brother who also stabbed their mum</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Ride #23 for Sabrina Mullings whose partner stabbed her through the heart and liver after asking her to marry him</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Ride #24 for Vikki Hull strangled to death by father of her child in her father’s home.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #24 for Kanwal Bernice also as I miscounted. It is unclear exactly how she was murdered as her husband had placed her in a storage room wrapped in cloth with a bin liner over her feet. She had been there up to 14 days when found. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #25 for Carolyn Hill - punched in face by boyfriend resulting in brain haemorrhage - he got drunk +bragged</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Ride #26 for Katrina Evemy stabbed +bitten to death by jealous boyfriend who left her toddler covered in her blood</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Ride #27 for Megan Bills. New “boyfriend” strangled her acting out a snuff fantasy then wrapped her in cling film</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Ride#28 for Karolina Chwiluk -
Ex-Boyfriend stabbed her 26 times in the face +neck cos she was dating a friend</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Extra Ride #29 for Tara Newbold whose partner was, unfathomably, disgustingly, not charged with murder. Her family seek justice. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Ride #30 for Jane Sherratt beaten to death with a training weight by husband - she lived 17 weeks before dying</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Ride #31 for Tracy Kearns-husband inflicted 40 separate injuries, strangled, smothered and dumped her in a trailer</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Ride #32 For Megan Bannister</span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a;"><br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Extra ride #33 for unnamed woman bullied to take her own life by vile rapist. She</span></span> cannot be named as her anonymity is protected so I called her Ms Sheffield as that is where she was killed. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #34 for Sinead Wooding- Was stabbed multiple times and hit repeatedly with a hammer by her husband. He then attempted to burn her body before dumping it in a wood to be found. He had been harassing another woman just days before and was a serial abuser. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Ride #35 for Concepta Leonard stabbed to death by partner who also stabbed her son. She had a non-mol order</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Ride #36 for Gemma Leeming whose partner strangled her to death and wrote “no brain” on her face in mascara. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">He desecrated her body+wrote on her in her own blood so that it would look like he was having a psychotic episode</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #37 for Emma Day. Ex partner stabbed her repeatedly over child maintenance as she took her kids to school.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #38 for Sobhia Khan murdered by partner of just a few weeks - he had previously set a woman on fire in 2010</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #39 for Arena Saeed and her children. Husband suffocated her and drowned her 2 children</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #40 for domestic violence worker Alyson Watt stabbed in neck repeatedly by ex - he also attacked her son </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #41 for Sarah Jeffery -was planning to leave husband when he choked her+strangled with hair straightener cord</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #42 for Jean Chapman. Husband battered her over the head with a vase made by her son. Then strangled her.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #43 for Molly McLaren who ended a relationship-always the most dangerous time for women with abusive men.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "\22 helvetica neue\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , "\22 arial\22 " , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #44 for Vera Savage - aged 89 was found stabbed to death and her son found alongside her. Police said she was murdered but he was not. They weren't looking for anyone else. Why on Earth can they not just admit when men murder women? It is not unusual on these lists to find sons are the murderers and it is the ultimate betrayal. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #45 for Celine Dookhran uncle slit her throat after kidnapping and raping her.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #46 for Olivia Kray whose father strangled her and then went to kill her mother -but failed.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "\22 helvetica neue\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , "\22 arial\22 " , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #47 for Betty Jordan - murdered by her estranged husband who drove to her home and stabbed her to death because he thought she was having an affair. Reports focus on the fact that he was wrong. Firstly, a woman who is not in a current relationship cannot be "unfaithful" to a man she has split from. Secondly - infidelity is still not a reason to murder a woman. Men do not own women. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #48 for Leanne Collopy whose ex stabbed her to death +set her house in fire with her 2 yr old daughter inside</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #49 for Rikki Lander - husband read a text and was jealous so beat her round the head and strangled her. He then hanged himself leaving their 3 kids in the house</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Extra Ride #50 at the request of friends of Shabnam Bhardwaj who was murdered a few days ago in Himachal Pradesh in </span><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/India?src=hash" style="color: #7100b3; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">#India</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by her husband who it is alleged hung her body to look like suicide. The police initially didn’t act </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "\22 helvetica neue\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , "\22 arial\22 " , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #51 for Hannah Cohen - Murdered by her brother who suspected he had been cut out of the family will and business. Men cannot murder women who don't do what they want even if they are family. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ride #52 for Leah Cohen whose son allegedly stabbed her to death because annoyed about a family will. He also allegedly murdered his sister.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Ride #53 for Beryl Hammond murdered by her son after many violent assaults reported and sadly retracted. He broke 10 ribs and left her to decompose - the pain of love she must have felt for a son who finally killed her.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Ride #54 for Asiyah Harris. Her ex-partner stabbed her 3 times in the neck finally severing an artery. He had arranged for her 2 children to be out of the house.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Ride #55 for Jessica King. Jealous ex partner strangled her to death with her children in the house. He told her “if I can’t have you no one can!” Many women will recognise this phrase. Other women. Fear it. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Extra Ride #56 for Rachel Slack at the request of her friend </span><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav" data-mentioned-user-id="166196792" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/Becky_Slack" style="color: #7100b3; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@Becky_Slack</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - she was stabbed 32 times in the chest and back by her ex along with her son Auden after significant police failures</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;">He also asked her “What do you think I’m going to do?” And she replied “I know what you’re going to do. You’re going to kill me.” We always suspect they might. Long after we are free. Every time you see them or hear their voice. A lifetime of fear.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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Some of you women have been aware of this for a while now. Thanks and love to all of you who have offered love and support to me. You are amazing and fabulous women.<br />
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So here goes....the science and the hard bit.<br />
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I have cancer. The doctors are reasonably sure it is ovarian. I'm still waiting for a full diagnosis after a biopsy to stage the cancer and identify the primary site. It has spread. There are metastases on my liver and omentum. There is a tumour surrounding my whole uterus. There is another mass behind my bowel, ceacum and possibly in my appendix. It's a party of cancer in here. I only went to the doctors with a tummy ache and a bit of swelling and I'd put on a few pounds for no reason. But here I am. 6 weeks later I have no idea what sort of future awaits me.<br />
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My daughter is numb. Sidekick is devastated.<br />
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When I got the diagnosis - as elusive, unfathomable and uncertain as it is at this point - Sidekick asked what I wanted to do.<br />
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I had just the one answer. "Let's get out on the bikes. I'll ride for a murdered woman. Let's do something positive." He nodded. So I did.<br />
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Here is the picture of that. Inside me is cancer ... on the outside I am a woman honouring the life of another woman.<br />
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The first frightens me. The second terrifies me. Men are still killing women at an average rate of 2 a week in the UK. After today I will have ridden for 84 women murdered by intimate partners or family members in 2017 - (this does include 3 women not murdered in that time frame but I rode for them at the request of their friends/family).<br />
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Women have volunteered to continue the rides for me. That is very kind. I don't want that though. I need a reason to keep focused. Honouring women on my bike is what I do. I intend to do it for as long as I can. If I have to stop it will feel like I failed the women. I can do this. I can get through this. I may not be riding as far or as fast. I may need to take a break for surgery and chemo. But I will be back on my bike and I hope you will support each ride by continuing to retweet and spread the love of the lives of these women and their terrible stories. If you want to help ... donate to the fund and help other women get free before they are added to these shameful lists. <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/ride-for-murdered-women">https://www.gofundme.com/ride-for-murdered-women</a><br />
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What I still have is a love of life. I love the countryside. I love the sky. I love my daughter. I love my beautiful, kind, gentle, funny sidekick. He put his hand on my back as I rode the other day to push me up the hill. He is my lead out man. I just have to keep pedalling. The night before last he bought some chairs to take me to sit on a hill I love. He has called it a mobile pub and will seek out the best views to take me to. With a glass of wine of course. He will see me through this. And if I don't come through it he will make sure he helps my daughter onwards towards the glorious woman I know she will become. With or without me. They will love each other even if I'm not there.<br />
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Please don't come to tell me that a man can be a woman. If I was a man who simply said I was a woman because I feel that way.....I wouldn't be facing death. The cancer is in the very part of my body that only a woman has. I can't identify out of this disease. Being a woman has been and will continue to be a magical and wonderful thing.<br />
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I am a woman. This is a woman's body. It has not failed me. It gave me a beautiful girl. It has taken me through abuse and delivered me to the door of sisters who healed me and continue to inspire me. It brought me towards the arms of the man I love. A man who loves me quite beautifully in return. Now why would I not love such a body?<br />
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And lastly a poem.... Life doesn't frighten me.......<br />
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She, like many girls, declares that she is not and will never be a feminist. Every time she says it I wait quietly for the “but”.<br />
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<span data-offset-key="5543a-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">“But ...” she tells me... she admires my work. She knows all the things I say about sexual and domestic violence are true. She knows of the statistical data and she knows the bodies of dead women murdered by men they knew are mounting up behind the two of us. She respects that I ride my bike to raise money for refuges with </span><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/ride-for-murdered-women" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;" target="_blank"><span data-offset-key="5543a-1-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">Ride For Murdered Women,</span></a><span data-offset-key="5543a-2-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;"> and she knows I volunteer my time elsewhere.</span><br />
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Yet she cannot and will not say she is a feminist.<br />
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So why? Why is it that young girls, even those raised by feminists, are afraid to name themselves feminist? Loudly. Openly.<br />
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When I ask her this she says that some feminist action is “stupid”. I ask for examples and she tells me of a feminist demand that traffic lights sometimes feature a female figure crossing instead of a male. It’s a fuss over nothing she tells me and makes feminists look silly. I consider myself a feminist. I never even saw this action. "Oh no", she tells me. "I'm proud of the stuff you do. That's real. It's just the other feminist stuff that puts girls off."<br />
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<span data-offset-key="66jqn-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">Misogynist males distribute these examples in the hope that it invalidates objection to more insidious forms of oppression of our sex class. Examples of the actual extent of male violence against women and girls, just in the UK, </span><a href="https://rapecrisis.org.uk/statistics.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;" target="_blank"><span data-offset-key="66jqn-1-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">include the 85,000 male on female rapes a year</span></a><span data-offset-key="66jqn-2-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">. Or the fact that one in four women will experience </span><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/compendium/focusonviolentcrimeandsexualoffences/yearendingmarch2016/domesticabusesexualassaultandstalking" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;" target="_blank"><span data-offset-key="66jqn-3-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">intimate partner abuse</span></a><span data-offset-key="66jqn-4-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">. Or that </span><a href="https://www.womensaid.org.uk/what-we-do/campaigning-and-influencing/femicide-census/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;" target="_blank"><span data-offset-key="66jqn-5-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">two women a week</span></a><span data-offset-key="66jqn-6-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;"> are murdered by men in the UK. Or that between 2009-2015 <b><i>936</i></b> women were killed by men and <b><i>598</i></b> of those women were killed by a current or former intimate partner and a further<i><b> 75</b></i> by their sons. Or that </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/12/rape-cps-police-prosecutors" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;" target="_blank"><span data-offset-key="66jqn-7-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">more than a quarter of rape</span></a><span data-offset-key="66jqn-8-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;"> is “no crimed” by police. There are no alternative statistics that will suggest a parity in these figures. None. </span><br />
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Yet other women, frequently young, are quick to leap in with "but women are violent too" or "women kill men" or "men are victims of domestic violence and have less help when they are!" In 2017 I rode my bike for 93 women who were murdered in 2016 by men they knew. There were 5 men murdered by current or former partners who were women. In 2 of those cases there was clear evidence that the woman had endured prior and prolonged domestic violence from the male who died. </div>
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Why do women and girls jump in so quickly with this challenge to any discussion of domestic violence led by feminist women in the sector? One of the reasons is that if you google anything about the topic you will find male voices. Men who are in power sometimes abuse that power to drown out the voices of women. Literally. Phillip Davies MP uses his position to silence women by deliberately preventing them from speaking during important debates in the House of Commons. He uses the Parliamentary debate system to interrupt and then keeps talking, not allowing a woman to interject, until a debate is timed out and no woman can speak further or move the motion to a vote.<br />
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<span data-offset-key="66jqn-8-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">The World Health Organisation estimates that there are 3 million girls at risk of female genital mutilation <b>every year. </b><a href="http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/fgm/prevalence/en/">FGM</a> </span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="66jqn-8-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">Most are are "cut" before they are 15 years old. To be cut involves a some of the following:</span><br />
<span data-offset-key="66jqn-8-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">1. Clitoridectomy - : partial or total removal of the clitoris</span><br />
<span data-offset-key="66jqn-8-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">2. Excision : partial or total removal of the clitoris and the labia minora,, with or without the incision of the labia majora.</span><br />
<span data-offset-key="66jqn-8-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">3. Infibulation : the narrowing of the vaginal opening through the creation of a covering seal. The seal is formed by cutting and repositioning the inner, or outer, labia, with or without removal of the clitoris.</span><br />
<span data-offset-key="66jqn-8-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">4. Other; all other harmful procedures to the female genitalia for non-medical purposes, e.g. pricking, piercing, incising, scraping and cauterising the genital area. </span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="66jqn-8-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">Do our young women hear about this? No. It is often considered to be too graphic and too distressing to speak to girls of the reality of how they are targeted because of their biological sex organs. Men don't talk about this unless it is to demonise and "other" men from minority ethnic backgrounds. Farage was "keen on" discussing FGM. Men often care about feminist issues when they can use it to advance their own power base. Tommy Robinson formerly of the EDL is "keen on" rape. He enjoys finding rape cases where the perpetrators have a specific ethnicity. He is quite prepared to sacrifice the protected anonymity of female rape victims to do so as he did this week when appealing for anyone on Twitter to identify a woman and "get in touch". This backfired when the woman herself contacted the press to say that her attackers had been white. Men like these care nothing for women. </span><br />
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Male voices, misogynist voices, are all over the internet with views for those young women to find instead of the voices of women working in the fields of sexual and domestic violence. Those male views are not backed by the data I link to above. Or any alternative data that is credible, peer-reviewed or statistically robust. But... young women are used to listening to male voices tell them things. They are not used to saying... "hang on a sec... is that credible research from a peer-reviewed source?" </div>
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<span data-offset-key="985vg-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">Demonising feminism and preventing women from accessing it is not new but it has accelerated quickly in some sinister corners of society. One culprit is the right wing “manosphere” often to be found thrusting itself loudly around the internet. Those misogynist views are amplified by other male voices in the lives of our daughters and are dragging them back into the shadows of a pre-feminist past. The whispers in their ears are the same as they have ever been. “No boy likes a feminist. You will never have a boyfriend. Feminists are ugly. Hairy. Lesbian. Man-hating. Stupid.” It is basic, but effective. It’s message is simple ... “you will never successfully oppose our oppression of you so shut up and sit down”. Girls are sitting quietly all over the UK right now.</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="985vg-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">Or they are saying they <i>are </i>feminists and therefore need access to feminist space and debate or it is "sexist". Girls and women acquiesce. Girls and women defend the right of males to be there because they are very used to yielding way to demanding males in their physical space. They have been socialised to do so by the patriarchal system in which they were born. Girls are therefore frequently unable to discuss issues pertinent solely to their sexed bodies because it is not "inclusive". More importantly, even the most confident young girl might struggle to vocalise her experience of difficult menstruation or worries about contraception or abortion in front of boys. Girls and women are often not afforded the same time in debates about their rights as they would be in women's space that was free of males. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7qm85-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">And who can whisper back for and at our girls that they are being manipulated and duped and cheated out of the women's movement they deserve? Not feminists. Because feminists are locked in fierce and bloody battle elsewhere about how to define what a woman is and what her rights should be. Respected feminist voices are being suffocated and their extensive and tireless work against male violence is being dismissed. Hands are being placed over screaming mouths. This is The Handmaid's Tale. Not in a fictional dystopian future.This is now. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4lcur-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">Feminist women are being erased online and elsewhere. The left wing media previously, and ostensibly still, supportive of feminist aims are simultaneously demonising the radical feminist fight to retain rights for women that are enshrined in law. Gaby Hinsliff’s article, in The Guardian on Friday 9th February, </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/09/transgender-women-labour-shortlists-gender-discrimination" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;" target="_blank"><span data-offset-key="4lcur-1-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">Hinsliff - 9th February</span></a><span data-offset-key="4lcur-2-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">. resulted in Victoria Smith, a well-respected gender-critical, feminist journalist, leaving Twitter because Hinsliff was unable to accept criticism of her article. Feminist women are being removed from the Labour Party via suspensions and possible expulsions while other women are being placed on a “transphobic hit list” led, in part, by the trans gender self-identified woman Lily Madigan. </span><a href="http://www.feministcurrent.com/2018/01/29/whats-current-labour-party-expels-second-female-member-placed-list-terfs/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;" target="_blank"><span data-offset-key="4lcur-3-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">Labour Party Hit List</span></a><span data-offset-key="4lcur-4-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">. Lily Madigan allegedly took part in an extended bullying campaign to evict lifelong Labour activist Anne Ruzylo from her role as Women's Officer. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5087503/All-Labour-officials-local-committee-resign.html">Madigan Bullies Ruzylo</a> Lily meanwhile has become the first trans-gender women's officer. Madigan now has a prominent voice in declaring which women are and are not feminist. I asked Madigan last weekend to declare whether I was considered a feminist. I was blocked for asking. Just for asking. </span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="4lcur-4-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">Feminists are being refused access to court hearings which directly affect them as happened recently in the hearing of the trans activist who attacked humanist Maria McLachlan. Maria was attending a debate on self-identification. </span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5019051/Police-appeal-transgender-activists-beat-feminist.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;" target="_blank"><span data-offset-key="4lcur-5-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">Attack - video embedded</span></a><span data-offset-key="4lcur-6-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">. Seasoned feminists like Linda Bellos and Julie Bindel are routinely no-platformed. These are women who have spent the majority of their lives working in the field of women's rights. This week Bristol University Students voted to "ban" speakers they deemed as "transphobic" after a debate in Bristol by 'A Woman's Place UK'. These were women who simply wished to debate the issue of gender self-identification and how it might affect women and girls and their safety. They are not women seeking to offend or impose their view. Simply to widen a vital debate. Debate is a crucial part of the learning process of University students. The "party for women" - Women's Equality Party - dismissed Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans, a research fellow at King's College London, and their spokesperson because she took part in a debate on gender self-identity featured on the BBc's 'Moral Maze'. Dr Brunskell-Evans had raised similar concerns about the effect on children of self-identification and associated medical interventions. She was therefore summarily silenced. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fmpnd-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">Females who speak about their knowledge of their own bodies and the rights they have to protect those bodies are being told to shut up and shut up fast. They are being excluded from feminist societies. They are being disciplined in their jobs and removed from their own political parties. Their fingers hover above keyboards paralysed at the thought that if they speak/type or even think about their biological bodies and ideological/philosophical/feminist beliefs they will suffer the physical and financial consequences. Women running refuges are terrified that if they voice concerns about issues of women's space proposed amendments to the Gender Identity Act their funding may be affected. Women helping women are being affected by this silencing most of all it seems. Women who desperately need help will end up dead as the voices of women who established those services, radical feminist women, are smothered and extinguished. </span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="fmpnd-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box !important;">Men’s voices meanwhile remain ungagged. Men are using those voices loudly and silencing feminist women with the acronym TERF. This was not a term ever utilised by radical feminist women (though some have tried to reclaim the insult by using it to refer to themselves - much in the way feminist women have previously tried to reclaim insulting terms for her genitalia to lessen the sting of the insult). This is a term invented to insult and undermine feminist women who object to the redefining of their bodies, their protected safe spaces and their legal protections. It is name-calling and we must not afford it any greater respect than the technique of an abuser. It is no longer used as an acronym. Merely uttering the word demonises a woman. It points her out as a "bad" woman and a bigot. Other women and other men can then vilify that woman. They can harass her from her job and her political party and all other areas of her life that they think she "deserves" to be expunged from - solely for wishing to debate how legal change may affect her rights. Only women sanctioned by males, or concurring with the views of dominant males may openly express feminist views now. Women are very afraid and rightly so. If they are targeted for their views about their own oppression and their own bodies they may lose their homes, jobs, children. This is a time as fearful for women as any in our history. </span><br />
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Jean Hatchethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17366431067037109280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370704414807518712.post-76293782610825957402017-12-11T20:03:00.001+00:002019-05-18T15:10:35.255+01:00Sexual Assault Is All Over Now. Still all over. <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US">A friend....a man....well-intentioned and very
kind....told me last week that he was hopeful. Weinstein’s abuse and unmasking really
might change everything. There always has to be a turning point. It seems like
something is happening. This is hopeful. He pointed me to the Time front cover.
<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Forgive me. I held my head to one side in
that way we have. You know the way. The one that says “I want to punch you in
the neck for that naive comment that makes me want to scream but I like you so
I will breathe hard while not punching you and then my head will sag over with
the effort”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I thought about Eva Wiseman’s article. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/29/a-year-on-from-trumps-pussy-grab-nothing-has-changed">https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/29/a-year-on-from-trumps-pussy-grab-nothing-has-changed</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Eva’s piece said that our hope – as women - comes and goes every year. I thought...
you, as a man, can hope. Because having that hope dashed every year simply
means the world isn’t going to be as moral or kind to women as you would like. But
it won’t mean that the world will remain constantly hostile to you as a sex
class. It won’t mean that you are despairing as to how things will ever change.
I wondered if I was being a bit.... well.... me. Hard. Pessimistic about the
patriarchy. Angry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Then came Saturday night. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I never go out to busy bars in the centre
of town. Ever. I rarely go out late around men. I tend to avoid bars where a
certain type of man will be drunk, and especially, drunk late at night. I class
a problem time to be anywhere past 9pm. Most men will not understand this. Some
women will. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Saturday night I had promised to go and see
a couple of male friends sing at a bar. I took along a female friend. It was
only 8pm. I figured we would be ok. It isn’t a swanky, trendy bar. Quite old
and well-established. Surely anywhere with live music by a hoard of gay blokes
would be ok? Surely?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But this is Christmas. Everything I
ordinarily fear about this is worse at Christmas. It should be better. But it
isn’t. You can’t put a bauble or fairy lights on a sexually risky
situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As we entered it became clear that personal
boundaries were being eroded by alcohol. People pushed. You pushed back or
fell. I made my way to the bar and my friend indicated she would wait at a
distance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man at the bar looked me up
and down and then “made way” for me. Except with that look. The one that says
.... you can cram in here but you have to do it by rubbing past my body.
Again.... women will know that look. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I held my arm out to invite him to step out
of the way first. He did but suddenly “fell” into me. I massively eye rolled
and waited for him to move on. No real harm done. I don’t get automatically
pissed off at every time someone touches me in a bar. No matter what the
Twitter Trolls might say. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I waited to be served. It was very busy. I
knew it would take a while. Suddenly someone tapped me on the shoulder. I
expected it was one of my friends. I turned. It was a sea of male faces. None
of whom I knew and not one of whom acknowledged they were trying to get my
attention. I turned back to the bar. Then it happened again. I realised someone
was trying to wind me up. I turned around with a smile and offered to the sea
of unidentifiable faces, “Come on lads. Pack it in now.” Many women will know
not to anger drunken men. Fighting is not sensible. Glass is involved. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Why would the men do this? Easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Woman alone. Fun. Bit of a joke?” Or
something more along the lines of “Woman.. alone.... confident.... let’s take
that away! That will be fun. She is few and we are many.” The latter is what
experience teaches me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And so I registered all this rather quickly
and thought that continuing to ignore was best. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And then I was tapped on the shoulder
again. This was swiftly followed by a hand firmly though my legs and a grab,
quite hard, of my vagina. I spun around. Not a face moved. All men stared ahead.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">All. Men. Stared. Ahead. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And that’s when you know. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Nothing has
changed. Nothing is changing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Unless ordinary women keep fighting, I will be long dead before I can go to a
bar and expect to keep myself, and my vagina, safe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For women... the Weinstein case heralds no
new dawn. These men won’t even know about it. They won’t have seen the hashtag
#MeToo They won’t have got the “stoppit now” memo. They won’t have read the
front part of the newspapers before clicking through to the football. They
won’t have clicked the ardent blogs before clicking on Pornhub. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Why the hell would they? The world and bars
and women are theirs. Women should stop being hopeful. They should stop
listening to men being hopeful on their behalf. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When all men stare ahead while a woman is
sexually assaulted, women must stare at the future and know it will not change
unless we change it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jean Hatchethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17366431067037109280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370704414807518712.post-63353466635516438872017-10-28T16:19:00.000+01:002017-12-20T10:42:36.751+00:00Ride For Murdered Women - 2016 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yesterday I completed the final ride of an awareness-raising project I started in March 2017 to complete a bike ride named in honour of each of the women murdered in 2016 by men they knew - as a result of domestic abuse. I mostly used a list provided by Claire Moore of Certain Curtain Theatre Company who compiles it for her "One in 4" project. I thank her for her extreme kindness and solidarity. I have tried to raise some money for Wearside Women In Need who faced a severe funding cut and the loss of all 4 specialist refuges in Sunderland. They have confirmed they are delighted to accept as much money as I have raised and will continue to be in desperate need of funds. I hope to continue to help them.<br />
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It has been an honour to ride for each and every one of these brave and beautiful women. Fighting my way up hills that took my last breath sometimes, was nothing, nowhere near close, to the agony and horror they endured before they breathed their last at the hands of some of the most brutal and wicked of men that have ever walked the Earth. I hate every one of the men who murdered these women. I have no sympathy for their "excuses". I care nothing for their mental health or drug issues. I don't care about their upbringing or their "provocation". No man should take the life of a woman. No woman should be trapped with a man who hates her. No mother or sister or child or friend should have that woman stolen from their lives.<br />
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Women fight hard to keep other women in this world. They staff refuges, answer helplines, march in streets, sit in each other's houses holding hands, meet with ministers, beg for funds, compile harrowing lists of dead women at great personal cost in order to prove male violence, ask online how women are doing, give advice, link arms, join shoulders, bleed together and cry together. Women do big things and women do small things. We do what we can. Women are fierce and mighty when they join with each other.<br />
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Some women are alone. Those are the women who die. We must get to those women somehow. We must teach them as girls. We must arm them for this war waged against them by violent and brutal men. We must teach them to recognise their abusers and know how to get help. There must be help for them to get. We need more than words from those in power. We need hard cash and resources. Women cannot escape their murderers on promises alone.<br />
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Men - look to other men. Look to yourselves. Take responsibility. This is male violence. It is cruel and it is ugly. Women can't stop this on our own. We don't need you to come to feminist space. We don't need you to wear a stupid t-shirt. Men need to stop hurting women - that's all. Stop other men hurting women. Refuse to listen to those men. Or stand with them. Or excuse them. Men need to learn that women are not possessions, or punchbags or power games. Women are not receptacles for your sperm, your anger, or your hatred. Tell men.<br />
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I have cried more times than I can remember as I learned the histories of these women and how they died. Some days I cried as I rode. Some nights I woke up remembering how they were murdered and, unable to sleep, planned the next bike ride in my head. Some rides I dreaded because the story was too much. Some stories were just too damned much.<br />
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Tomorrow I will begin to ride for the women murdered by men they loved in 2017. The bodies and the stories of male violence just don't stop coming it seems no matter how hard women work. We just keep working. We just keep going. I salute each and every woman who does anything that helps keep women alive. If it is your friend or the woman at work, or a neighbour, and you ask her how she is... I salute you. If it is the woman who keeps fighting to keep her refuge doors open... I salute you hard. If it is the women of The Freedom Programme or Women's Aid or any of the other domestic violence services... ah you women are fierce.....you don't need me for anything. But I love you anyway.<br />
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Mostly I think of the woman who sits and dreams of a life for herself and her children where she is not afraid..... the woman who thinks her life is over most days and that she is just waiting to die ... but in some stray and errant seconds she drifts into a world and a life she knows exists somewhere. The life she should be living. I send love to that woman and hope she keeps on living until she gets that life.<br />
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"The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still... for the caged bird sings of freedom"......Maya Angelou<br />
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.................keep singing sister. We can hear you. Just keep singing.<br />
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The women........<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">R</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ide #1 Katrina O Hara - Stabbed to death by her ex husband outside her place of work as she closed the shop. He had lain in wait for her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Ride #2 Georgina Symonds - strangled with twine after she "dumped" the man who repeatedly bought her body to use for sex and told her he loved her. Prostitutes lives matter too. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Ride #3 Lisa Jane Lyttle - strangled to death by her husband with a mobile phone cord. He was annoyed afterwards that he lost all his friends. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Ride #4 Andrea Lewis Stamped to death by her husband who then dragged her outside and left her to be found in the street half-naked with 41 different injuries. There was a history of him covering her in bruises. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #5 Guida Rufino - had her throat slashed and was stabbed in the chest 4 times by an ex- partner she had told to leave. He tied up her friend who had come to help her so that she heard her best friend die, screaming and begging for her life.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #6 Elidona Demiraj stabbed to death by her partner - neighbours heard her screaming and a loud thud.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #7 <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Geraldine Newman - Beaten to death with a hammer whilst her children lay bleeding to death upstairs after her husband stabbed them.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Ride #8 Caroline Andrews - Strangled to death by her husband, who had defrauded her dementia suffering father out of more than £260,000. He then checked into a hotel room with a woman he intended to prostitute after buying knives, Prosecco and condoms. He lied to their 4 children about her death. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Ride #9 Bethany Hill - tortured by two men - one of whom was her ex-partner. They bound a Barbie Doll, supposed to resemble her, with duct tape just as they did her before repeatedly slashing her wrists as neighbours heard her screaming. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Ride #10 - Sheila Jefferson - brutally murdered by her brother-in-law. 17 blunt force injuries to her face and also shot in the face. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #11 - For Kerry Gascoigne who was strangled to death by her partner. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #12 - for Leanne Wall was head-butted and then strangled to death by her ex-partner</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #13 - for Maria Byrne whose husband doused her in white spirit and then turned the gas on so she caught alight. She lived for 30 minutes. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #14 - for Rose Hill who was strangled to death by her grandson who also killed her daughter. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #15 - for Julie Hill who was axed in the face, had her teeth punched out and was then drowned in the bath by her nephew who had also murdered her mother. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #16 - For Lisa Reynolds - stabbed 17 times by her boyfriend as she begged him to stop because the knife was blunt as her children watched. She screamed "The knife is blunt! Stop it Baz."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #17 - For Natasha Bradbury who was murdered by her ex who cracked her ribs, her neck, injured her brain and caused heart injuries. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Ride #18 for Julie Archer - doused in petrol and set alight by her brother. She told a nurse he did it just before she died. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Ride #19 For Gemma Stevens - her boyfriend stamped on her head 11 times, stabbed her and then set her house on fire. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #20 for Dawn Green killed by her husband who then hanged himself. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #21 for Carrie Ann Izzard who was fatally stabbed 29 times in the neck by her ex</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #22 for Lyndsey Smith – who was stabbed to death in the stomach by her ex who went off out having a nice time as she died after years of abuse. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #23 for Lynn Freeman who was stabbed by her partner who murdered his ex partner, Jodie Betteridge, just minutes later. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Ride #24 for Jodie Betterridge who was stabbed 30 times in the head and 45 times in the torso – a total of 132 times altogether. The blade of the knife of the man’s knife broke off with the ferocity. He stabbed her on her front garden in front of her 3 children, one of whom ran around in the sun screaming and covered in her blood.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #25 for Joanna Trojniak who was stabbed 6 times by a partner she was trying to leave. He than stabbed himself a tiny bit and ran into the street crying as an attempt to escape justice. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #26 for Amina Begum who was killed by her son after “multiple incised wounds” according to the coroner. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #27 for Natasha Sadler who was stabbed through the head and suffered other stab wounds after a man who lived in the same house was unhappy that she turned on a tap and his shower temperature changed. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #28 for Laura Marshall who was murdered by her ex after months of abuse. He left her in a bath of her own blood, raped and covered in bruises.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #29 for Tracy Cockrell whose partner strangled her and then set her on fire.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #30 for Helen Bailey who was targeted during her grief for her dead husband and then manipulated by a new partner who then suffocated her and buried her in a cesspit under the garage – allowing police to search for her body for months. He killed her dog too and buried it alongside her. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #31 for Leigh Ann Mahachi who was stabbed 40 times by her ex in the street outside her house. Her mother heard her screams as she died and came out to try to stop her blood with towels as her ex partner ran away. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #32 for Jean Ryan who was stabbed to death by her husband. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #33 for Nasreen Khan who was a care worker, stabbed to death with her 5 children in the house, because her husband did not like that she visited men as part of her job.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Ride #34 for Fay Daniels who was stabbed 17 times including 4 to her face, 8 to her neck and had 2 broken ribs. Her ex then dumped her in the back yard.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Ride #35 for Xin Xin Lei repeatedly stabbed by her husband.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #36 For Louise O' Brien whose husband strangled her to death then left a heart-shaped chocolate on the pillow next to her dead body.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #37 For Natalie Hemming whose husband found out she was going to leave him and beat her to death. Her 6 year old son crept out of bed and saw his mother during the murder but was frightened he would be told off. Her husband then dumped her body face down in a wood to be found 3 weeks later and took the children to the zoo.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #38 For Iris Owens whose son strangled, kicked and slashed at her with a chainsaw as she hung out washing on the line in her garden.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #39 For Becky Morgan who was on a date with a man who "allowed" her to fall into the sea without raising the alarm or helping as she drowned. He went off to the pub instead.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #40 for Maria Mbombo whose husband stabbed her to death after an internet search for "the most painful place to stab someone".</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #41 for Marina Erte beaten severely by her jealous ex who then drowned her by holding a shower attachment to her face.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #42 for Marina Nolan whose ex slashed her throat and strangled her with a TV flex. He put their 2 year old son out into the street to wander then returned with 3 knives and stabbed her to death leaving her to be found by her other son. (Marina was murdered in 2002 but I was asked by her friend to honour her death)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #43 For Sonita Nijhawan whose husband axed her in the head 40 times and also stabbed her 78 times because she wanted a divorce. She took her rings off the day before and he replaced them after she was dead. He was jailed for manslaughter because "depressed" but not too depressed and "out of control" to search "softest part of the human female skull" the day before.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #44 for Dawn Rhodes. Her husband was cleared of murder. I've included her in this list because he slashed her throat. He had been stalking her, checking her phone and Facebook and found she was seeing another man. He had harassed her and her friends via Facebook posts from a fake profile. It is sad that she was the one labeled "unstable" and he walked free.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #45 for Andrena Douglas - police arrived to tell her her partner was injured in a caravan fire- only to find her murdered.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #46 for Karen Hales - bludgeoned to death with a hammer by her daughter's ex-partner. He raped and murdered her daughter Jade at the same time.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #47 for Jade Hales - ex- partner broke in and raped her, murdered her and then also murdered her mother and dog.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #48 for Keziah Flux-Edmunds - aged 6. Killed by her father to torture her mother, his estranged wife. He drowned Keziah and her pet dogs and lay them all on the bed for her mother to find alongside a letter which said " You've taken everything and I will leave you with just memories."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #49 for Helen Fraser - stabbed multiple times by her partner in front of her daughter as neighbours heard her screaming.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #50 for Jean Irwin whose husband hit her with a hammer as she slept and then strangled her.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #51 for Nijole Sventeckiene whose partner slit her throat with a single 5 inch long incision and left her naked crying for help.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #52 for Agnieszka Szymura who was stabbed by her partner 30 times as neighbours watched. There was evidence of past abuse and injuries.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #53 for Sandra Gill. There was clear evidence of past abuse at the hands of her husband and yet a coroner could not be certain that her severe head injury was inflicted by him. He said she may have "fallen off the toilet". Grown women can sit on toilets. And beds. Even when drunk.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #54 for Sarah Nash who was strangled by her ex-partner who was allowed to walk free just months before to attend a "relationship course".</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #55 was for Jules Parkin who was killed this year. It was so shocking to know that her class would be going into school to hear that their teacher had been murdered. I included her at the request of a friend but will also ride for her again.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #56 Alison Muncaster shot by her husband as she sat on the sofa.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #57 for Emma Baum whose ex-partner battered her to death with a crowbar and then urged her mother to come and "find her" with him.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #58 for Claire Hart shot by her husband days after she left him. He left a note "revenge is a dish best served cold" he also shot her daughter alongside her after lying in wait for them. He reloaded his gun between rounds.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #59 for Charlotte Hart whose father shot her alongside her mum because her mum had left him days before. His note also said "Karma is a bitch". Charlotte's last words were "It was my dad who shot me". Brave to the last.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #60 for Tracey Gabriel who was stabbed repeatedly by a male "friend" who also stabbed another friend of hers.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #61 for Samia Shahid whose ex-husband raped her and strangled her as he disapproved of her second marriage. Her father assisted him.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #62 for Nicola Haworth suffocated by her ex-partner who left her 9 month old baby screaming in the house beside her body.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #63 for Lenuta Iona Haidemac - prostituted by her partner to another man who raped and murdered her. He strangled her, stabbed her twice, punctured her nipples and wrote a name on her body.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #64 for Margaret Mayer whose husband bludgeoned her to death with a lamp.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #65 for Hannah Pearson whose partner strangl</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ed her to death after watching porn. She did not consent to the porn-influenced "sex" either the judge found.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #66 for Gergana Prodanova murdered by her ex-partner who was furious that she refused to go back to him and was beginning a new relationship. He put her naked body in a suitcase and dragged it through the town centre before dumping her to decompose beside a railway line. She had endured years of abuse.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #67 for Lynne Braund who had a deep fear of fires. Her 18 month old daughter had died in a house fire in 1990 and she still suffered the trauma of that when her ex-partner squirted her with lighter fluid and set her on fire. Then left as she burned. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #68 for Donna Williamson whose boyfriend accused her of sleeping with other men so he stabbed her in the heart and lung. She had tried to call the police and he could be heard screaming "You are dying. You are dying mate. Your life is slipping away from you. What you done to me you c*nt, you f*cking deserve it."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #69 for Xixi Bi beaten to death by her partner. She had 41 injuries including a broken jaw and ribs. Paramedics found her body so bruised they thought it was a result of her being dead for days not hours.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #70 for Jean Constant asphyxiated with a plastic bag by her husband .</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #71 for Karen Arnold was murdered by her husband who stabbed her multiple times.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #72 for Alison Jane Farr-Davies beaten to death by her boyfriend and thrown downstairs naked. Her body was hit with such force that there was a penetrating cardia injury - similar injuries are only seen in war as a result of shrapnel, grenades, mortar bombs and explosions.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #73 for Hayley Dean whose partner bludgeoned her to death with a lump hammer and then slept next to her body. He put her head under the pillow. When she was found she had a cigarette in her mouth and a lighter in the other hand.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #74 for Elizabeth Bowe</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> whose brothe</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">r murdered her because she was going to accuse him of rape. She was found with a dressing gown around her neck and naked from the waist down as he sat close by smoking a cigarette.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #75 for Melinda Korosi whose ex-partner raped her 3 times before gouging a hole in her neck with a sharpened rock. Police deemed her high risk after she had recently accused him of rape.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #76 for Nasreem Buksh whose estranged husband bashed her skull in as she slept. The children reported that he never spoke to her and hadn't for years.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #77 for Natasha Wake whose partner stabbed her 11 times with an 8 inch knife. He stabbed her with such force that 6 of the wounds went through her torso and out of her back. He then wrapped her in a duvet and put her under the stairs telling her daughter that the blood on the walls was ketchup. He was unhappy that she had found out he was being investigated for sexual assault.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #78 for Jaqueline Pattenden whose partner stabbed her to death through her chest in his home.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #79 for Mandy Gallear whose husband stabbed her as she unloaded the dishwasher because she had told him she was leaving him</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #80 for Vicky Bance whose husband saw her talking to another man so he stabbed her 23 times with a commando knife. She had 16 stab wounds to her chest, 14 deeply penetrating her heart and both lungs and any one of them could have been fatal with the maximum depth of one wound being 20cm.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #81 for Sophie Smith whose boyfriend beat her for 4 hours breaking 11 of her ribs, her eye socket and her nose.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #82 for Alice Ruggles who was stalked increasingly and relentlessly before eventually being stabbed to death by an ex partner who had already terrorised and abused her. She felt "palmed off" by police. He eventually broke in to her home and slashed her throat from ear to ear. He stabbed her at least 6 times. Even as he waited to murder her he was on his phone arranging a Tinder date for afterwards.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #83 for Lucy Jones murdered by ex partner in a sustained and brutal attack with a total of 90 separate injuries.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #84 for Belen Tripp whose husband stabbed her 24 times with some of those wounds 14cm deep and damaging her shoulder blades with the ferocity.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #85 for Deeqa Ibrahim who kindly visited her ill husband before he returned to Somalia. He grabbed her and locked them both in the bathroom where he began stabbing her to death.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #86 for Rebecca Johnson stabbed to death by her boyfriend who escaped and pretended to be suffering from hypothermia.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #87 for Linda Ordinans was found murdered after her husband called police to report her murder shortly before killing himself.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #88 for Andraya Webb told her boyfriend on a night out that their relationship was over after he had been violent towards her too many times. She assured friends it would be ok for her to go home even after he had become aggressive. Her ex returned and broke into her home. He hit her with an iron. He stamped on her face so hard he left a boot mark. He poured paint down her throat and put gas canisters between her thighs before setting her on fire. She had 45 different injuries and was breathing when she was set alight. He said "Some of us have angels and some of us have demons. Tonight the demons won."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #89 for Umida Eshboboeva strangled to death by her husband just before Christmas. Always an enhanced period of risk for victims.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #90 for Angela Best was murdered by a man at his home. Few other details are available.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #91 for Claire Paton was beaten to death by her ex-partner - the excuse offered was that he had tinnitus. He also attacked her son with a nail gun after throttling her. No excuse is acceptable for killing a woman. Not even poorly ears.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #92 for Hayley Wall who was lured into a "relationship" with her abusive uncle. He then murdered her because she refused to sexually touch him in public in front of her friends. He smashed her skull in with a television.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #93 for Nicola Woodman murdered on Christmas Day 2016 by her partner who stabbed her in the chest. He also battered her with a pickaxe handle. A judge told him "You are not ill. You are wicked."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ride #94 for Tracy McPartland beaten to death over a 2 day period by her son who had history of abusing her. She had a total of 29 separate injuries. The judge said "she simply took the beating and did not seek help". No woman expects the child they give birth to will one day beat the life from them. It is the ultimate betrayal.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br />
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Jean Hatchethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17366431067037109280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370704414807518712.post-18539682078787588422017-06-27T20:12:00.000+01:002018-04-05T09:36:13.390+01:00I'll never have another you. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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People always ask how it started. "Why didn't you get out? Why didn't you spot it? How could he have said and done things and you not get help? Or not tell your family or friends?" <br />
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As though it's easy.<br />
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There's no set of reasons. Often there is very little a woman could have done. Whether she is aware of domestic abuse or not. Many times a woman knows some things and is ready.... "if he EVER hits me I'm out of there!" "I would NEVER stand for a man telling me what to do!". She means it. She just never sees it. It is slower. It is more brutal in its creeping and creepy ability to drop us to our doom while we think it isn't even happening.<br />
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I know that writing anecdotally seems self-indulgent and pointless regarding change. I defend myself with the fact that some woman always tells me it helps them. So. Once again. Forgive me if you hate this kind of writing.<br />
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I knew my abuser already as someone I encountered in pubs occasionally. I have no idea whether he hated me from the start. Probably though. He hates most women. Openly. The phrase ...."All women are nutters!" is common with him. He made me feel quite special even before we became involved. I would encounter him and he would be charming and funny and complimentary and..... dangerous.<br />
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I was a bit bored. He was a bit "different".<br />
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"Different"- I could now rephrase as "psychotic".<br />
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A friend and I discussed our abusers the other day and how they lured us in. We discussed the tactic of offering excitement. Of offering the feeling that we were doing things the "ordinary" people and relationships weren't. Falling for a "bad boy" is a romantic trope. We are having a fabulous time and later, if we need to, we can change them. At least they aren't boring right?<br />
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No. Being hurt is never boring. Living with trauma could never be called dull. Being brainwashed is disorientating and soul-destroying but not predictable.<br />
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When an abusive man begins his quest it is often in the gentlest and loveliest of ways. Love bombing is a tactic you will have heard. If I pinpoint it to one moment that sealed my fate it would be this.<br />
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In the early days. When I thought he was falling in love with me. This....<br />
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<i>We had been out drinking and gone back to his flat. He had told me he had no furniture in the lounge. He had one chair. I asked why and he proudly said... "I don't want anyone to feel comfortable enough to stay long." He is a control freak. He had a big leather chair like a throne and anyone else had to sit on the floor. He always has to make himself feel more special and important than anyone else. It stems from deep insecurity. At the time I thought it made him more interesting and quirky. He is only quirky in that he hates women. He hates anyone he thinks is better than him. He needs to hate a lot of people. His hatred is dangerous. </i><br />
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<i>But this particular night he offered me a glass of wine in what he told me were very expensive wine glasses. A present from his parents. I took the glass and began to drink. He had a balcony. There was music playing. It seemed rather romantic. Even sitting on the floor whilst he sat on his "throne". I read nothing into his power/domination techniques then. I later told this whole story to friends as though it was incredibly lovely and a sign of him really caring about me. </i><br />
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<i>Unfortunately for me... in ways I could not judge then... I dropped the glass and it shattered across the floor. </i><br />
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<i>I know what you are thinking. He hit me? He shouted? He called me names?</i><br />
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<i>Not at all. He smiled. </i><br />
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<i>I cried actually. I was embarrassed and felt really bad. I had smashed something important to this new man on whom I wanted to make a good impression. So what did he do?</i><br />
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<i>He walked over and took my hand. Picked up the glass and cleared it away. I was very upset. He walked to the balcony with his own glass and grandly, and with force, deliberately threw it over the balcony. I gasped. I heard it smash on the driveway below. He turned and smiled and said...</i><br />
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<i>"I have another four of those. I'll never have another you."</i><br />
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And that was it. I was in. One romantic gesture for a working class girl brought up on the myth of Prince Charming. The one who would sweep you off your feet. The one. Surely this was the thing such a Prince would say? This was probably the one I'd been waiting for? I'd been groomed for?<br />
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I was groomed. By my upbringing. By society. Finally .... by him.<br />
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Months later he broke my rib. I had 23 more of them. But I'll never have another him.<br />
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JH x<br />
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<br />Jean Hatchethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17366431067037109280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370704414807518712.post-16860500045767437052017-06-12T15:51:00.004+01:002017-06-12T17:20:01.238+01:00Women are still dying for their vote.....<br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Last week we saw how powerful and empowering voting can be.
People began to hope for something better than there had been. We voted with a
desire to see change. We voted against a backdrop of biased media reporting
combined with a carefully-nurtured political disaffection and in the face of
increasing political cruelty and arrogance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">As the snap election wore on, and a newly-invigorated Corbyn campaign emerged, things began to change quickly. The morning after the election people
were, if not elated, at least glad that it wasn’t worse. The prospect of a
rampant and unfettered Tory party crippling the poor with yet more austerity
measures was just too painful to consider. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">As election anticipation grew and excitement at the
prospect of rebellion against Tory dominance flourished with the clear signs of Tory wheels coming off, some women still sat
at home and did not vote. Not because they were disinterested. Not because they
were not eligible to vote. Many of them will have sat at home with a polling
card somewhere on a pile of mail. They knew it was there. They knew they could
not use it. Or which is really the same - that they could not use it as they
would like to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I tweeted, as did many, about how hard suffragette women had
fought for us to vote. This is true, however clichéd. The desire in saying it
is that we can encourage women out to the polls. Women who are politically
active may try to vote for issues that concern women and children. They will
probably choose parties that represent women. In many cases that will not be the
Conservatives. But….sometimes they will choose right wing parties. Sometimes
women will vote for parties whose policies will harm them directly. That is the point of
this blog. Yes, the Suffragettes did starve and die for our political rights.
Sadly that alone did not free women to vote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">What stops them? Men stop them. The men with whom they are in
intimate relationships. Husbands, brothers, partners, sons, grandfathers. The
men in their homes and the men in their heads. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Free women can vote freely. Trapped women cannot. They may
not be physically trapped. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">If a man wants to control a woman he can isolate her from
her family. If he wants to control her finances he can isolate her from work.
If he wants to control her effectively beyond hurting her and creating fear,
the easy ways are by limiting her movement, her financial independence and her
access to help via friends, family and outside agency. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Abusive men love to take things from the women they abuse.
Calling a woman names takes away her self-esteem. Hitting or raping a woman
takes away her belief in personal safety and bodily integrity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Telling a woman that
what she thinks or has always believed is stupid can be really damaging too, as part of his “scheme”
of abuse. A man constantly telling a woman that what she thinks is wrong, when
he makes what he says and believes sound like “what everyone thinks”, is
brainwashing. Many abused women are subject to attempts to brainwash them. Fighting
to keep your ideological integrity is just one more fight in many fights. Some fights come before that one. Sometimes it is suffocating to see through the small every day battles and the bigger battle can seem remote. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">A woman may have very strong political views when she meets
her abuser. If those views disadvantage or disagree with those of her abuser,
he will need to destroy them. If they are feminist views, they will need
stomping on firmly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Many abused women are outspoken and strong when a man
targets them for abuse. They are confident and successful. They present a
challenge. Skilled abusers need a challenge. Some seek vulnerability, but many
also seek a strength that they can destroy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When people say “Never discuss politics or religion” the
suggestion is that it will lead to discord. In a household where disagreements
escalate fast from such simple things as the content of a meal many women would
never dream of challenging what a man says about the economy or immigration. If
they do they soon learn not to. If they are fighting to survive, mentally and or
physically, it is almost Pavlovian to learn to say the political things that
chime with him. To parrot a political mantra he agrees with is like seeking a
pat on the head. Women may support EDL marching bigots of the highest order - because how would you tell a man like that - his views are unacceptable? When he
returns home full of fight and alcohol and the certainty from marching with a
hundred other thugs that he is right how would you tell him he is wrong? If he
has been kettled by police all day as he marched then where might the fight he did not achieve go? What
might his partner need to say to defend herself from anger. Create a scale of
political views down from the extremist and you will find women agreeing with
fracking, NHS cuts, Brexit and more when they would previously have stood against those things. Some women of course are simply not
“allowed” to vote. Some women are not allowed to leave the house. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Free women wake up quickly. Free women soon realise that
part of reclaiming themselves from him physically and mentally is also about
reclaiming yourself politically. Free women run to the polling booth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I think of the woman who no longer knows what she thinks. I
want that woman to finally vote again. Think of how different things might be
today if all the abused women last Thursday had been able to vote for things
that are good for women like them? Think of the women still dying without a vote. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">JH x</span></span></div>
Jean Hatchethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17366431067037109280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370704414807518712.post-5497494697565291892017-05-22T21:33:00.000+01:002019-03-17T10:11:49.936+00:00You can't beat a woman to death because she wants a man who won't. I rode number 37 of the rides in #Ride4MurderedWomen for Natalie Hemming on Sunday.<br />
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I read about her before I set off. The details are horrific. All the details of all the women I ride for are horrific because at the end of their stories a man kills them. A man they knew. A man they knew better than any of us. The thought of what they endured before he did kill them is nearly as bad. For those of us who have our own memories - we know that she was dying a bit faster and harder every day she spent with him anyway.<br />
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Natalie Hemming's ex partner beat her to death in their living room. He beat her severely, causing a fractured skull and damage to her arm (consistent with defending herself) and then wrapped her in a blanket. During this one of her two children, her son, came down and peeped through the door because he had been woken up by the frenzied attack. He was afraid of what he saw, he thought he might have been in trouble. Natalie Hemming's ex-partner then dragged her naked body out and took it to a wood. He dragged her through the ground by her ankles and left her face down to be found by whoever came by.<br />
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He them returned home and took his children to the zoo the next day as though nothing had happened.<br />
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3 weeks later her body was found by a man doing some work on the wood.<br />
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It does not really matter "why" he killed her. He killed her because he was an abusive woman-hater and had been for many years. He was controlling and violent and bullying.<br />
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Yet, when I read the details there were details which bothered me. The details which are constantly thrown around male circles to justify abuse.<br />
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She was embarking on a relationship with another man. A colleague. It had begun as "flirtation" and "developed into something more" so she was planning to leave her violent, controlling, manipulative partner with whom she had endured a controlling and coercive relationship/hell on Earth. In her view they had already split up. In his head - she was his possession.<br />
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I realised yesterday, whilst believing absolutely none of it, that some men hearing this would secretly say..... "Ah. She was unfaithful. I can see where he was coming from." Or worse, the men who say, "If my wife cheated on me I'd kill her and then I'd kill him" or "He has every right to smack her about, she's a slag."<br />
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I could hear some women absorbing those time-established judgement from within themselves thinking..... "oh but... she was seeing another man behind his back. That's not really allowed. It was bound to make him angry."<br />
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Over the years many women have sought refuge from an abuser by entering a friendship or relationship with another man. At the time they have been utterly destroyed. In all kinds of ways. They are not used to seeking women to help them. They do not know about feminism or refuges or escape plans. They feel intrinsically that the way to escape one violent bully is to seek another man who may be able to protect them from him. Women who are used to relying on a man who makes them totally reliant only see the escape route in yet another man.<br />
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It makes sense no? This man is hurting me. Who can help me? Where will my escape route be? Ah. A better man. A stronger man. A different man.<br />
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When another man shows interest in them it may be the only kindness they have had from anyone in years. A man saying "your hair looks nice" is like a thousand diamonds strewn at your feet after a man who makes it his life's mission to make you feel ugly and worthless.<br />
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She will have heard.... "Who on Earth would look at you? The state of you! You've got fat. You're old. You're ugly. You'd never get a man like me again. " She has heard this a lot. Her esteem is ridiculously low. I have seen the loveliest women with personalities like sunshine and eyes like oceans convince themselves they are as unattractive as gravel. They get new clothes. He says they make her look like a tart. She cuts her hair... he likes it short. They grow their hair. He thinks they're letting themselves go and trying to act "like mutton dressed as lamb". They wear perfume to make themselves feel prettier. He says the smell turns his stomach. They cook nice meals straight out of the cookbook. He says it makes him sick. What a waste of his money. They try to share details of their lives. He says they bore him and he's tired because he doesn't have the easy life they do.<br />
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In their heads they fantasise escape routes. One where he dies. They live a better life. They win the lottery. They leave him and live a better life. Or they meet someone who offers to save them and take them away from all this.<br />
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They are terrified. A man can get them killed. They know the rules. And yet.... a word of kindness and a smile can break their pain for a day. A gesture of care can lift their eyes. A simple offer of basic help or a sharing of emotion can lead them onto a fantasy world where they are free. A text returned can be the rope that hangs them or leads to freedom. Women faced with unbearable choices make unbearable choices. The man they turn their face to for the sun may also be an abuser sniffing out their vulnerability. Or he may be a good man. He may genuinely think he can help. He may unwittingly place her in danger.<br />
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She will cling to him. What trapped prisoner would not want the man with the key to their prison to befriend them? We women have grown up with fairy tales. We do not always realise that other women have the key too. That we have the key in ourselves. We are too weakened and beaten and lost.<br />
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If Natalie Hemming clung to a man... and I don't know if he was a good man... or if he was a man who would not have saved her.... I don't care the judgement about "adultery". You cannot commit adultery or be unfaithful in a relationship where you are already deceived. Abuse is deceit. It is one man convincing you he loves you whilst he steals your soul. You owe that man nothing. None of us do.<br />
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She may also have heard the words that Natalie Hemming did. "If I can't have you no one can." He was right. No one ever did again. Including her children and her friends and her parents. Never judge a woman for her escape route. Her escape route is the thing that she needs to stay with us in this world.<br />
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Let's keep women in this world.<br />
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JH x<br />
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<br />Jean Hatchethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17366431067037109280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370704414807518712.post-2638659416675802992017-05-15T19:40:00.001+01:002019-05-18T15:21:32.208+01:00Dear Tommy Robinson - Open LetterOver the last few days I have been the target of a number of your "supporters". They are very keen to tell me how little I care for women rape complainants. Apparently you have suddenly become the saviour of said rape complainants. I therefore need to address this. Mainly because your concern, and theirs, seems woefully and transparently inauthentic in its intent.<br />
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Might I ask what statistics you are aware of regarding rape? Are you aware that the conviction rate for rape generally is so terrifyingly low that women spend years of their lives campaigning to improve it. Some women, like Jill Saward, died trying. The statistic hovers around 7% but with adjustments can be as low as 3%. The HMIC report of November 2014 ( Crime Recording - Making The Victim Count) states that 3.1% of reported crime is deemed "no crime" but for rape that statistic rises to 7.3% and the total for all crimes of sexual violence is 26%. I'll repeat, 26% of crimes where - and it is predominantly male on female crime - the result is that police don't proceed to court. You know this surely? No? Just this one case that you thought was valid? Because this kind of injustice happens to a lot of women. Roughly 76,000 of them per year achieve no justice at all.<br />
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Whilst I have massive sympathy for Chelsey - and should she seek feminist support it will be here in bucket loads and more - then it is important to see this as a systemic failure of women as a sex class.<br />
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In fact it can be seen as a male crime of violence which is routinely overlooked. Of course if you factor in the statistic that only 16,000 rapes out of 78,000 are actually reported to police and that only 1500 of them approximately proceed to conviction then .... you can sort of see why feminists get angry.<br />
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We even name the problem. We name it men. That includes men of all races, religions, immigration status and umm.... political motivation. There will be men among your own ranks who have raped women I don't doubt. There will be men among your own ranks who are keen to make it "othered" as a crime - (See Jock Young - The Vertigo of Late Modernity - 2007 ....it would be invaluable to you on the concept of "othering"). However... it is dangerous to women and girls to do this. Yes, grooming gangs are a problem. Yes, there have been horrific institutional failures at every level from police to government and the judiciary, and yes... we must hold them to account. We cannot do this proceeding on the basis that only immigrant men or muslim men are to blame or that only white women are victim/survivors. This is narrow, naive and foolish. Or racist. Shall we stick to narrow, naive and foolish? Because as soon as you point a torch on a very small percentage of those 78,000 rapist men, as you are doing, then that allows a massive amount of men (including those white British men in gangs, or as individuals, who groom) to slink off into the shadows quietly and continue their evil.<br />
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In the interest of sharing expertise which I don't think you currently have I will link the HMIC research document here.<br />
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<a href="https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmic/wp-content/uploads/crime-recording-making-the-victim-count.pdf">https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmic/wp-content/uploads/crime-recording-making-the-victim-count.pdf</a><br />
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That was my way, not too subtly of saying that you are a little under-informed and have wandered into an arena with a grudge against a specific section of the community and actually you don't have the correct weapons or the correct target.<br />
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Systemic injustice for women subject to sexual violence is not new. Resistance to it is not new. Local government collusion and police corruption in this area is not new. Neither is the opposition to it. Infact.... nothing you are doing is new. The only supposedly novel angle is "muslim grooming gangs" and this is not new either. Andrew Norfolk highlighted the atrocities many of us knew were occurring in Rotherham years ago. This led to a major government inquiry in the form of the Alexis Jay report. This led to a greater awareness among the public and following investigations and revelations. I was alerting anyone who would listen to me about the dangers of the negligence of former Police Commissioner Shaun Wright many years ago. As were many other feminists. Feminist organisations have picked up the pieces of those atrocious crimes. For years. They are still doing so.<br />
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Marching through streets shouting about muslim men does not put women back together after the trauma of rape. You will find that it is feminist women who do that. You will find that it is women who fight for funding. It is women who give their time voluntarily to helplines which are often the first point of contact when a woman has been raped. You will find that it is a feminist organisation that is campaigning to educate juries on rape mythology to ensure better justice for women.<br />
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Rape Crisis funding has been, and continues to be, slashed under government austerity measures. More specialist sexual violence trauma units are desperately needed in hospitals. Juries are woefully under-informed/misinformed by judges. The entire law around past sexual history and Section 41 of the Youth and Criminal Justice Act needs reform so that no such devastatingly painful and questionable testimony is allowed to deliver such a terrible lack of justice as that for the complainant in R v Evans occurs again. Women need fair access to justice from first point of entry into the criminal justice system which begins with the police. You might be surprised to know that feminists push for this all the time. Rape Crisis England and Wales. EVAW, and many, many, many other women are keen to see improvements. Funnily enough, despite the recent incoming Twitter attacks I have seen relatively little declaration amongst your political affiliates that they will fight for justice for all raped women?<br />
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And yet, here we are. Standing accused of inaction by men. I would laugh at the ridiculous lack of awareness - but it seems more sensible to politely point out the staggering arrogance and comic delusion in such attacks.<br />
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You will find that, contrary to the accusations your followers level at me, I am more than willing to name those responsible for the failures on muslim grooming gangs in Rotherham. The last time I properly wrote on it was in 2016. Here.<br />
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<a href="https://jeanhatchet.blogspot.com/2016/02/rotherham-must-come-clean-get-clean-and.html">https://jeanhatchet.blogspot.com/2016/02/rotherham-must-come-clean-get-clean-and.html</a><br />
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It was not just the predominantly pakistani heritage males who were to blame. It was also powerful white men and a woman, who have all conveniently evaded any accountability. The Pakistani heritage community in Rotherham are mostly just as angry about the lack of justice and accountability as anyone else. They are the majority. The male perpetrators are a minority. <br />
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I raised £27,000 ( a tiny amount I admit) last year to support rape victims and complainants. I'm still proud of that. It will help to support women of all religious, racial and political backgrounds. Because there is not a designated rape demographic. Other than - predominantly female victim and entirely male perpetrator. Are you aware that Rape Crises England and Wales statistics for 2015/2016 revealed that 27% of service users were from black or ethnic minority backgrounds. This is a rising figure. up from 23% in 2014. I am aware that male on male rape occurs. Are you? Do you know those statistics. Do you know how male violence sweeps through lives? Do you not think that perhaps challenging a culture where men raise other men to see females as sexual objects is problematic? Do you watch porn for example? I would like you to think about where the attitudes to seeing women as disposable humans for sexual gratification comes from? If you watch porn - you collude. Women are raped on camera in that porn. Men take that message into real space and enact it upon women. The sex men watch is violent. Rape is a common scenario. I'll ask again... do you watch rape on screen routinely? Do you think it is "ok because she likes it"?<br />
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So, back to Chelsey Wright. I think this poor woman may have been treated appallingly by men. I think those men have subjected her to sexually violent atrocities and I think it does look as though the criminal justice system is failing/has failed her. Unfortunately I have little knowledge of her case as I do not accept Rebel Media as a trustworthy or truth-validated news source. I have been waiting for more credible information.<br />
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I am keen to distance myself from you and your band of followers. Most feminists will do that. We see that you are using a young woman, who appears to have been exploited in the most vile of ways, for a politically motivated agenda. What feminists will do if Chelsey approaches us is take care of her. We would offer her signposting to specialist services and we would demand justice if a lack of justice is shown to be the case.<br />
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Crucially, male sexual violence against women and girls is not an issue we can confine to one victim or a small group of perpetrators. The problem is much more extensive than that. If you really want to help Chelsey you will hope that she picks up the phone that will link her to women with specialist counselling knowledge. I don't have it by the way. I am not a trained Rape Crisis counsellor. Largely, I'm just a gobshite like you. Just more adequately informed.<br />
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You can thank me for the information. Just don't do it in person.<br />
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Kind regards,<br />
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Jean Hatchet.<br />
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