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My friend suffered abuse in a relationship 9 years ago.
Only recently has she been able to be more honest with us about what happened.
He was controlling (stopped her seeing friends), made her do certain things (for example, made her write emails to ex boyfriends saying she’d never see them again)
he pushed her in an argument and she got a concussion.
he stopped her leaving her flat on many occasions.
he’d verbally abuse her regularly.
he threatened her many times with violence.
As part of her healing process she wants to go to the police and report him. Sadly I don’t think there’s much concrete evidence for them to pursue a conviction.
We believe he has probably done similar behaviour to other girlfriends before her and since, and I think she hopes somehow this could help connect them..
Has anyone got any experience of reporting a historic case like this and how the police treat them? Will they just be very dismissive?
please only reply if you have experience of this, thank you so much 🙏