Domestic violence victims live in terror as court delays let abusers roam free for years
12.09.2022 - 03:05
/ msn.com
court delays of up to three years allow their abusers to roam free, according to research by the national charity for victims. Their attackers are being released on bail, despite evidence that they have broken restraining orders or been left free to date other women - even though they have a history of serial attacks on previous partners, said Victim Support.
It warned that the court system was at “crisis point” and ministers urgently needed to resolve the barristers’ strike to restart efforts to reduce the backlog of nearly 60,000 cases. One victim told The Telegraph she was too scared to leave her house after her abuser was allowed out on bail, even though he had previously breached a non-molestation order to attack her.
The 40-year-old safeguarding co-ordinator has seen the sentencing adjourned three times since the attack in March, when her ex-partner broke into her home and beat her unconscious in front of her children, before stabbing her in the mouth with a screwdriver. She is off sick from her job, has suffered the recurrence of a brain condition from the stress and has had to move her children’s schools - including her eight-year-old son, who was so frightened he would not go into the playground at breaks.
“I feel like a shell of the person that I used to be,” she said. “If I wasn’t this strong, I think I would have taken my own life by now,” she said.
A second victim, a 39-year-old advanced nurse practitioner with an MA, told The Telegraph she lives in fear of her ex-partner, taking precautions including a security escort from her work building to her car. She has waited more than 18 months for her ex-partner to be brought to justice for beating her, sexually assaulting her and suffocating her in March 2020,
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