BIG TALK

In March of this year, the government put forward a new Domestic Abuse Bill, which creates a statutory definition, recognising coercive control as a form of abuse.

Described as an ‘act or pattern of assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation which is used to harm, punish or frighten their victim,’ campaigners fought for many years to bring this bill to life.

In the year ending March 2019, an estimated 2.4 million adults aged 16 to 74 experienced domestic abuse, and almost every