Pride of Manchester winner Jane Gregory knows what it’s like to be in an abusive relationship, but it was the murder of local mums Leanne McNuff and Linzi Ashton by their ex-partners – after suffering years of abuse – that made her realise she had to do something.
Sadly their cases were far from unique, and in 2013 Jane set up the Salford Survivor Project to help others in the same situation.
She had been concerned that her daughter might get involved in a troubled relationship with her own partner. “I just thought: I’ve got to make a change.
I’m not going to sit around and wait for my daughter to be the next victim,” says Jane. The 51-year-old found that although there were services available for people experiencing domestic abuse, they couldn’t be accessed quickly and easily – and she knows from her own experience how hard it is to find help. “I come from a home where my dad regularly beat my mum, and I just believed that’s how things were.
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