I've just watched this. I was a bit disappointed with the paucity of evidence, solely because I'm not sure that anyone who doesn't have some awareness of stalking would really have understood how corrosive that kind of behaviour can be. But I think the reason for this is the decision of the police not to include the evidence Eve collected early on, so presumably that's all that Panorama could show in order to not compromise the upcoming court case.
There have been many threads here about the threatening behaviour after a woman has decided to leave a relationship; and threads where women have great difficulty in breaking free from a controlling and abusive relationship. There has been and is continuing to be great support, advice, and understanding of not just how difficult it can be to break away but also of the fear for the consequences.
I am shocked by the little understanding that still seems to exist in some police forces as to the complexity of domestic abuse. The case cited on the programme was that of Katie Boardman who was murdered by her ex-husband. Comment was made by the IPCC that Katie was not always forthcoming with information to the police. But even if Katie was herself somewhat confusing in what she said, it's the job of investigating officers to disentangle what they've been told - that surely should be a basic investigative technique.
In Eve's case, she had recorded evidence of threats made to her by phone, and video evidence of her ex being at her house despite the requirement for him to stay away. Yet that apparently wasn't sufficient for the police to realise the level of threat.
It's even more disturbing that a straight-forward checklist had been available but wasn't used, apparently on the basis that there hadn't been training in the use of that checklist. The point of a checklist is that it doesn't need training - what it does need is for ordinary police officers to fill in the form and then pass that on to trained domestic violence officers. But it needs the checklist to be completed in the first place.
I'm somewhat confused, NetworkGuy, why you think a bit of balance is needed. Certainly there are cases where the woman is the perpetrator; indeed, the SWMBO phenomenon is well known and should no more be ignored than cases of HWMBO. A better awareness of domestic violence, precipitated by a better awareness of domestic violence of the male-on-female variance, should result in what you seem to be looking for.
The two cases referred to in this thread are the Katie Boardman murder: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8419167.stm
And the Maria Marchese case: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1540019/Stalker-who-cried-rape-is-jailed-for-nine-years.html