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A victim, trying to understand…

[SerenaJ @Sj2019Sj]

@YouTube @VictimsComm

[SerenaJ @Sj2019Sj]

Am I missing something? @victimscommissionerforengl4226 @BlackBeltBarrister https://t.co/KvU5M9AoYu via @YouTube

[SerenaJ @Sj2019Sj]

@thecrimeanalyst My ex would drive fast and dangerously, knowing I got car sick and was terrified. It's definitely a control tactic.

[SerenaJ @Sj2019Sj]

Manifesting!

[SerenaJ @Sj2019Sj]

@DJIGlobal I also love DJI! @dshensmith I would use the camera to create a documentary, I've been procrastinating and afraid. I want to uncover what happens when a victim of crime, dials 999 and gets put through to a police force who have failed the HMICFRS inspection 3 Times!

[SerenaJ @Sj2019Sj]

@DJIGlobal I also love DJI! @dshensmith I would use the camera to create a documentary, I've been procrastinating and afraid. I want to uncover what happens when a victim of crime, dials 999 and gets put through to a police force who have failed the HMICFRS inspection 3 Times!

[SerenaJ @Sj2019Sj]

The challenge is @JMoncktonSmith, that there are zero consequences attached to police officers who fail victims.
And hundreds of law firms refusing to support any actions against the Police... despite evidence.

Victims are left wishing they should never have called the police, and 9/10 times victims return and suicide becomes an option, as a safer way to escape the torture.

[SerenaJ @Sj2019Sj]

@ellis_sarahl @JMoncktonSmith Powerful film.
How can victims hold perpetrators to account if the police aren't trained, play down, ignore or are manipulated by the perpetrator?

[Rare 🇺🇸 @RareImagery]

It’s your dog this clingy?

[SerenaJ @Sj2019Sj]

So many victims being let down by those we are taught to trust. Caroline’s case shows exactly what’s wrong.

Six years. £20,000. And only then did the evidence get submitted to the CPS.

It’s not a one-off. This is happening across the country.

And @gmpolice “We praise her bravery,” say the police.

No. She paid £20,000 and lost six years of her life doing the job you refused to do.

What she deserved was protection.
What she got was dismissal and additional trauma.

Caroline did your job, and paid to get justice.

What happens to all the victims that can't afford to pay for justice, like Gemma?

Equal Justice

[Anna Collinson @AnnaCollinson]

10 years since coercive control became a crime, some police forces are failing to support and protect victims.

Caroline says she became a detective in her own abuse case due to police failings.

I’ve heard this a lot.

She's bravely allowed us to follow her fight for justice...

[SerenaJ @Sj2019Sj]

I’m looking for a Psychiatric Assessment and report, for a Victim of Domestic Abuse, predominantly Coercive and Controlling Behaviour. For evidence of impact. UK.
Does anyone have any recommendations, or advice?

@DrEmmaKatz @thecrimeanalyst @laurarichards99
@JMoncktonSmith @SODASam_ @DrProudman
Stronger Together
#empowervictims

[SerenaJ @Sj2019Sj]

@SODASam_ @SEAresource @Naturewatch_org I agree Sam, when victims disclose “harming an animal” on the DASH form, does this trigger a referral to Animal Welfare, RSPCA, DEFRA? @thecrimeanalyst 🤷🏻‍♀️

[SerenaJ @Sj2019Sj]

@thecrimeanalyst How many police officers sign up to your courses @thecrimeanalyst ?
I have some evidence that they need to.

[SerenaJ @Sj2019Sj]

Who’s keeping the blindfold on Lady Justice?

She’s the symbol of fairness, yet she’s blindfolded, silenced, and surrounded by men who tell her the system works, while it fails the very people it was meant to protect.

Isn’t it ironic?
A woman is the symbol of justice,
but justice has never truly served women.

Give her the sword, the scales, but take off the blindfold.
Let her see the truth:
Justice isn’t just broken, it’s being controlled.

#LadyJustice #VictimRights #LegalReform #SystemicBias

[Rachel Horman-Brown KC (Hon) @rachelhorman]

It’s appalling that there had to be a judicial review in the first place. How dare the magistrates do this to the victim. Every part of the CJS does its utmost to work against victims https://t.co/mzQ0ZYwKA4

[Shadows of Control @shadows_control]

Abusers maintain carefully constructed public images that starkly contrasts their private behavior. They may appear charming, respectable, and even compassionate to the outside world, while behind closed doors they engage in manipulation, control, and cruelty.

#coercivecontrol

[SerenaJ @Sj2019Sj]

I have a thorough timeline, evidence, including recordings from the many meetings I had with them, showing how one police force failed me as a victim, and how the PCC, PSD and IOPC continue to do whatever they can to shut me down and hide the truth. A decade on, survivors like me are still silenced, retraumatised, and denied justice. I know I am not the only one in my County. We need more than laws. We need action and accountability. All I wanted, was for the police to do their job, it’s not asking much.
#CoerciveControl #VictimsVoices #JusticeForSurvivors #PoliceAccountability #RightsForVictims #DomesticAbuse #TraumaInformed #EndImpunity

[SerenaJ @Sj2019Sj]

The whole police complaints system is broken! I discovered this yesterday. I am a victim of crime, and a victim of a failing police force under “Engage”

My most recent interaction.

You fill out the online form on the IOPC. Website.
- the IOPC don’t see it, it automatically gets sent to the force you’re complaining about.
- The force then ignore your complaint.
- You call the IOPC to complain, after sending the IOPC an email.

The IOPC do not have access to the online form you completed, on THEIR own website.

The lady I spoke to yesterday was unbelievably rude, zero training in how to respond in a “trauma informed” way. And as per usual - “seek legal advice” was the final door slam!

Fees of £350+ per hour for said legal advice!

[Laura Richards BSc MSc MBPsS @thecrimeanalyst]

History in the making! Well done Queensland 👏🏼 I’m so proud to have played a part 💜

From today, 26 May 2025, coercive control will be a criminal offence in Queensland 🔥

It will be illegal for an adult to use abusive behaviours towards their current, or former, intimate partner, family member, or informal (unpaid) carer with the intention to control or coerce them.

The criminal offence captures patterns of physical and/or non-physical abuse used to entrap, hurt, humiliate, isolate, frighten, or threaten a victim-survivor.

The criminal offence will carry a maximum penalty of 14 years imprisonment due to the serious nature of the offence and the harm coercive control can cause victim-survivors.

The law applies to abusive behaviours that happen from the day the law comes into effect on 26 May 2025.

This has been an incredible journey in Queensland, a journey sadly involving many horrific cases, consultations sessions, providing overwhelming evidence for the need for urgent change.

I gave evidence late one night about why coercive control should be criminalized.

I talk about many cases including Hannah Clarke and her three beautiful children Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey who were coercively controlled, stalked and brutally murdered by Hannah’s estranged husband Rowan Baxter on February 19th 2020.

I will never forget them and this is very much their legacy. Hannah’s parents, Sue and Lloyd Clarke, have been tremendous advocates for them.

This new law is for all the victims 💜💙🔥

✅ My coercive control masterclass is in May 28/29. New DASH Risk Assessment and coercive control masterclasses start again on September 30. To register:
https://t.co/QGelyhRzPy

#HannahClarke #HerNameWasAaliyah #HerNameWasLaianah #HisNameWasTrey #CoerciveControl #CoerciveControlLawReform #Queensland #Australia #DomesticAbuse #CrimeAnalyst #DALawReform #Femicide #Familicide #Prevention #LanguageMatters #Survivors @laurarichards99

[SerenaJ @Sj2019Sj]

Huge congratulations, Laura. Your tireless campaigning continues to change lives and it’s incredible to see this law coming into force in Australia. I really hope their police forces are trained quickly and effectively.

In the UK, some forces didn’t train officers on coercive control until eight years after th
e offence was introduced. One of those forces, Wiltshire Police, not only delayed training but catastrophically failed victims like me. They refused to investigate properly, ignored vital evidence, and still won’t meet with me to understand how badly they got it wrong.

Despite being placed under Engage by HMICFRS for serious failings, they remain closed off. Professional Standards marked their own homework and refused to accept the very evidence that could have revealed the depth of their mistakes.

It’s unthinkable that this is still happening in 2025. I truly hope Queensland can learn from our mistakes and centres victims from the start, all the way through to a charge.

(And if you ever have time or space to look at my case, I’d be incredibly grateful.)

[SerenaJ @Sj2019Sj]

@SarahTaylo89428 Suicidal Ideation
Reliance on prescribed medication - Depression, Anxiety, PTSD/C-PTSD
DARVO
Grief
Weight gain
Weight loss
Bankruptcy
Self-Harm
Agoraphobia
Isolation

[SerenaJ @Sj2019Sj]

@SODASam_ You’d think that would be obvious!!

It’s as if this happened…

“Let’s bring in a new law”

“Ok, shall we train people in how to identify it?”

“Nah, we will wing it”