During the day, John Price, reacting to death threats, had warned police and sought an Apprehended Violence Restraining Order against his wife, a person with a long history of domestic violence against previous partners. Her first marriage ended when first husband, David Kellet, fled in fear of his life. Knight would regularly fly into violent rages over nothing in particular, assaulting her husband with her fists, kitchen appliances and anything else she could lay her hands on. Australian News online article, ‘Domestic Violence – Sadistic Female Killer Katherine Knight’
You’re looking for a punch in the mouth, do you know that, Martha? Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 starring Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton & George Segal & Sandy Dennis & Agnes Flanagan & Frank Flanagan, director Mike Nichols, him to her
‘All these things were complete lies ... He told me he was going to commit suicide if I didn’t marry him ... And he hit me across the side of the head ... I got up and left the house.’ Scientology: Going Clear: The Prison of Belief, testimony of Sara, 2015
‘You had your fingers on her neck, yes?’ The Secret Tapes of O J Simpson, interview, CI 2015
‘We’ve got some blood on and in your car, we’ve got some blood at your house ... [other detective] we’ve got the cut on your finger ...’ ibid.
‘OJ’s attorney arranged for him to take a secret polygraph test. O J failed that test – minus 22, virtually the worst score you could get.’ ibid. Lawrence Schiller
I’m not scared of you any more, am I? Alan Bleasdale, Play for Today: The Black Stuff starring Bernard Hill (Yosser) & Michael Angelis (Chrissie Todd) & Alan Igbon (Loggo Logmond) & Peter Kerrigan (George Malone) & Tom Georgeson (Dixie Dean), missus to Yosser, BBC 1980
Over a third of all domestics recorded to the crime survey for England Wales involved a violent woman. Alys Harte, The Rise of Female Violence, BBC 2015
In 2013, 164 women were murdered in Britain. Of these 164 women, 86 were killed by their male partner or ex-partner. Love You to Death: A Year of Domestic Violence, caption, BBC 2015
Lo looked up with a semi-smile of surprise and without a word I delivered a tremendous backhand cut that caught her smack on her hot hard little cheekbone.
And then the remorse, the poignant sweetness of sobbing atonement, grovelling love, the hopelessness of sensual reconciliation. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
A motion picture for every man who ever gave the back of his hand to his beloved … and for every woman who deserved it. Which takes in a lot of people! In the war between the sexes, there always comes a time for unconditional surrender. The Taming of the Shrew 1967 starring Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor & Natasha Pyne & Michael Hordern & Cyril Cusack & Alfred Lynch & Alan Webb & Victor Spinetti & Roy Holder & Mark Dignam & Bice Valori & Giancarlo Cobelli & Vernon Dobtcheff & Kenn Parry & Anthony Gardner, film’s marketing
In the second it took Hector to release his breath, he saw Ravi jump towards the bodys, he heard Gary’s furious curse and he saw Harry push past all of them and grab at Hugo. He lifted the boy up in the air, and in shock the boy dropped his hat.
‘Let me go,’ Hugo roared.
Harry set him on the ground. The boy’s face had gone dark with fury. He raised his foot and kicked wildly into Harry’s shin. The speed was coursing through Hector’s blood, the hairs on his neck were upright. He saw his cousin’s raised arm, it spliced the air, and then he saw the open palm descend and strike the boy. The slap seemed to echo. It cracked the twilight. The little boy looked up at the man in shock. There was a long silence. It was as if he could not comprehend what had just occurred, how the man’s action and the pain he was beginning to feel coincided. The silence broke, the boy’s face crumpled, and this time there was no wail; when the tears began to fall, they fell silently.
‘You fucking animal!’ Christos Tsiolkas
‘The mid-1980s there suddenly seemed to be a spate of women, young brides, dying of burns. The term dowry death was given to them.’ Strange Rituals: Till Death Us Do Part s1e10, arranged marriage investigator and interviewer of abused wives, H2 2016
‘Sonita! Sonita! Sonita! Storyville: Brides for Sale – Sonita, Sonita raps with kids, BBC 2016
How much did they offer as a bridge price? — $3,000. But my dad wants more money. ibid. girl to girl
Girl 1: ‘And worse, he already has a wife and kids.’
Girl 2: ‘You’re lucky; at least they asked you.’
Girl 3: ‘Did you agree nor did they beat you?
Girl 1: ‘At first, they beat me up. Then I agreed. ibid.
‘Can’t you see that I’m just at teen? But he doesn’t answer, just leaves me there.’ ibid. Sonita rap lyrics
‘He was a little bit forceful.’ O J Simpson: Made in America I ***** Nicole’s reaction to first-date assault, ESPN 2016
‘Female heard screaming over the phone.’ O J Simpson: Made in America II, 911 operator
‘She told me it wasn’t the first time. Showed me pictures from past beatings.’ ibid. rozzer
‘It really wasn’t that big of a fight.’ ibid. O J on television
‘It was always Nicole’s fault.’ ibid. family friend
‘When it turned toward domestic violence that was one that nobody wanted to hear. The police didn’t want to hear it.’ ibid. Harry Edwards, sociologist
‘I checked the computer: there would have been eight previous domestic incidents on file … A slap on the hand is not going to cure this happening again.’ ibid. rozzer
‘I thought he was going to kill her.’ ibid.
‘She told me about years of abuse at his hands.’ ibid. friend
‘Beat me for hours as I was crawling for the door.’ ibid. Nicole’s note
‘He never relinquished control.’ ibid. friend
‘He’s back … He’s going to beat the shit out of me.’ ibid. 911 call after reunion
‘The domestic violence evidence was the why of it.’ O J: Made in America IV, Marcia Clark
I really couldn’t believe that this could be happening. Everybody was screaming around me. And I was terrified. All I can think of is by God I just couldn’t see. Crazy Love, her, 2007
I had never seen a girl as beautiful as her. ibid. him
I began to drink very heavily. ibid. him
I continued to see him but things kept going downhill. ibid. her
A psychiatrist examined me and put me into a closed ward. And they committed me. him
I then began approaching people to beat her up. ibid. him
He [Bert] threw the liquid [acid] right in my face. ibid. her
These are the scars [shows wrists] when I tried to get a mis-trial. ibid. him
I was still in love with her. ibid. him
I represented everybody in the prison. They were all my clients. ibid.
She and I started speaking on the phone. ibid.
Linda, I want to marry you. ibid.
I was gonna go back with him … starting from scratch. ibid.
A whirlwind romance turns lethal. In the eyes of the law it’s a thin line between self-defence and murder. Scene of the Crime with Tony Harris, ID 2017
A car crash: 24-year-old Jeffrey Brown is killed; 21-year-old Cherelle Brown survives the crash. And in the days following it she becomes the focus of an investigation that paints her as a killer. But this is anything but a clear-cut case. ibid.
The man she loves is turning her life into a living nightmare. ibid.
The police agree and seek to charge Cherelle with first-degree murder. ibid.
Not guilty: ‘The jury was crying’. ibid.
Every sixty seconds 999 receives a call to a domestic incident. Many people believe it only happens to older women but alarming statistics now show that the girls aged 16-24 are just as likely to experience violence from their boyfriends. Stacey Dooley: Beaten By My Boyfriend, BBC 2015
And during holidays and major sporting events those calls rise significantly. ibid.
One in four women in the UK will suffer domestic violence in their lifetime. ibid.
The most common reoffenders are the perpetrators of domestic violence. ibid.