Lancashire’s Police and Crime Commissioner has visited Westminster to push for stronger laws in domestic abuse‑related ...

Love bombing is considered to be an abuse tactic wherein one person showers the other with affection, compliments, gifts, and attention in order to gain their trust and control or manipulate them. The ...

Coercive control creates invisible chains and a sense of fear that pervades all elements of a survivor’s life. It works to limit their human rights by depriving them of their liberty and reducing ...

Coercive control was written into U.K. law as a crime in 2015, referring to a form of abuse that occurs within a family or intimate partnerships. Coercive control is an act or a pattern of acts of ...

A High Wycombe domestic abuser has been found guilty of coercive and controlling behaviour. Luke Emms, 38, is due to be sentenced at Aylesbury Crown Court on February 26, 2026. He was found guilty on ...

I’ve heard women describe years of psychological torture. Partners who controlled what they wore, who they spoke to, how they spent every penny. Men who monitored phones, isolated them from family and ...

A campaigner and survivor of domestic abuse has issued a checklist of signs to help identify somebody who is experiencing coercive control. Samantha Billingham, founder of UK-based organisation ...

A Wigan 39-year-old is alleged to have subjected a woman to a near-long abusive relationship before attacking her and ...