My best friend just turned up escorted by the police smelling of blood, wine and bawling her eyes out. She said her boyfriend had kicked the shit out of her outside the flat this evening.
After lots of crying she told me he left her in town and she stayed with friends. He came back and told her not to come to his and when she got there he opened the door and kicked her in the stomach, pushed her head into a wall and dragged her across the ground while she was crying just to be let in. The neighbours saw and called the police and she ended up at my door at 12:45am.
Her boyfriend is a long term friend of mine and my DH so I called him. Apparently she hit him in town so he left and walked home. She was already there when he got there and started beating him up. She got into the flat and threw a fabric wardrobe at him and he snapped and started dragging her across the floor. When he got to the door the police were there who manhandled him as they were told it was a male on female domestic violence incident and she came back time.
Right now I've calmed her down and got her to sleep on the sofa. He is calmly spoken but I can tell he's seething my angry and doesn't want to know about her at all.
I'm just looking for advice on how to support really. I don't think I'll ever get the full story and I know my friend has a history of violence as does he but I thought it was very much dealt with and in the past. They're both our friends and while DH is sleeping I'm worrying here. DC's didn't get woken up by the wailing thank God.
