Victoria Derbyshire fights back tears as she reveals her violent dad used to beat her mum in terrifying attacks
Victoria Derbyshire held back the tears as she told of her experience of having an abusive fatherMs Derbyshire hosts tonight's Panorama programme looking at domestic violence during lockdown, revealing the scale of domestic violence during the height of the crisis.
New figures have shown that domestic violence against women has rocketed during the coronavirus outbreak, with two-thirds of women in abusive relationships suffering even more during the pandemic. “Like I could really cry, I could really cry,” she said. “Pathetic. So this is the house where I grew up. It's so weird, I haven't been here for so long and I've got some really happy memories of being there, but there were some really difficult times because my father was violent.
She added: “So I ran from here down to the police station which is maybe a mile. I was 12 or 13. I was so scared I just ran to the police stations and said ‘my dad's hitting my mum, please can you come.’" The BBC programme features a woman called Jess [not her real name], who told how on the night Boris Johnson announced lockdown, her husband chillingly told her: "Let the games begin" – before raping her more than 100 times over the following weeks and months.
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