David Challen never fully grasped how men’s violence and abuse affected women — until his mother Sally was convicted for killing her abusive husband, David’s father, in 2010 in Surrey, Britain.
“I was forced toa> face up to the fact that my mother had not taken such drastic action for no reason,” says Challen. “His abuse and daily control of her led her to it. I realised how many women are subject to this behaviour.”
Challen immersed himself in understanding more about domestic abuse, talking with feminist campaigners about the varied forms it could take and how prevalent it was. He realised that his mother — who he knew had been unhappy in the years before his father’s death — had been a victim all along. He joined the campaign for her freedom, alongside the feminist law reform NGO, Justice for Women (JfW, of which I am a founder member).
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