Three women, all public servants devoted to helping and protecting the most vulnerable in society – yet at home they were in a permanent state of fearing for their lives.
Ambulance worker Helen Duncanson mentions ‘that time he came at me with a claw hammer’ almost in passing, at the end of our interview.
By then Helen, 41, has documented the worst abuses she suffered at the hands of her former partner: the night he strangled her until she blacked out; the psychological torment; the financial abuse; the times he locked her out, leaving her to sleep, freezing, in her car before getting
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