Councillor bravely speaks of own experience of domestic abuse and coercive control
hereAn independent young woman, who went travelling on her own and was able to buy her own home, she was swept off her feet by a man who showered her with affection.He made her feel ‘precious and beautiful’.He was so attentive that he wanted to spend every second with her.If she was on a night out with friends he wanted to know who she was with, and whose voice he could hear on the end of a phone – pleading with her to go home so that he would know she was safe.Coun Wills said she relocated miles to be with her partner, giving up her friends, her job and her home to be with this ‘amazing man’.Two months later, a casual drink in a bar saw an argument flare when she put her foot on the bottom of his stool.She thought he was joking when he