‘I pleaded for him to stop’: Domestic abuse victim tells of ordeal of living with 7 brain injuries
Anushka* suffered seven traumatic brain injuries at the hands of her violent former husband. She explained how he would beat her up with his bare hands and use chairs, cutlery, crockery, hangers, vases – anything convenient – to attack her. He was jailed for his campaign of abuse.
“There were so many times I was literally beaten and battered until I would fall on the floor and then he relentlessly kicked my head like a football,” Anushka, 40, a former banker, adds. “And I pleaded for him to stop and he did not stop.
“And then he would grab my head and bang it against the floorboards and scream in a rage.”
Anushka’s devastating story comes as pioneering in England and Wales could be living with a brain injury – a far higher prevalence than a global study which found around one in 12 in the wider population has endured such a trauma.
