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Jan 14, 2025 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Ann Cusack |Lauren Gregory |Chelsea Heatley |Monique Rubins
Women whose lives have been destroyed by abusive men have slammed the judicial system after Ryan Wellings was cleared of manslaughter following his partner's suicide after he subjected her to a disgusting campaign of abuse. Kiena Dawes, 23, from Fleetwood, Lancashire, took her own life after enduring more than two years of horrific domestic abuse at the hands of Wellings, whose fate was decided at Preston Crown Court on Monday.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Lauren Gregory
When Jennifer Bentley was just 13, she lost her father to prostate cancer. Just entering her teen years, the Liverpudlian school girl and her mother were were plunged into a state of grieving and did not have many people to turn to - until an old family friend reached out. Raymond Andrews, at the time in his forties, was the partner of a friend of Jennifer's mother.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
the-sun.com | Lauren Gregory |Martha Cliff
WAKING up in hospital wrapped head to toe in bandages and only able to move her head, Marisah Izquierdo had no recollection of how she'd come to be there. She'd suffered catastrophic injuries yet Marisah, 26, was lucky to be alive after having a seizure at the wheel of her car weeks earlier, sending it crashing into a tree before it burst into flames.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
thesun.co.uk | Lauren Gregory |Martha Cliff
LEANING over her gas stove to make a cup of tea as she had done dozens of times before, Lourdes Cuello suddenly felt a surge of heat flood the top half of her body. Terrifyingly, the 50-year-old's long, brunette hair and hoodie had caught the flames and both her neck and chest were on fire. Hearing her screams, Lourdes’ daughter, Vaylin, 24, raced to the mum of two's aid and managed to put out the flames - but the damage was already done.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
the-sun.com | Lauren Gregory
HEART pounding, Kaitlin Womack felt waves of revulsion in the pit of her stomach as the police mugshot flashed up on her Facebook feed. It was the photo of a man she knew far too well and the horrifying trauma the monster had put her through when she was aged nine suddenly came flooding back. The man was child sex offender Kert Birtwistle and seeing his face on her screen horrified the 25-year-old who had been harbouring her own awful secret about him for almost a decade.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
thesun.co.uk | Lauren Gregory |Anna Roberts
HEART pounding, Kaitlin Womack felt waves of revulsion in the pit of her stomach as the police mugshot flashed up on her Facebook feed. It was the photo of a man she knew far too well and the horrifying trauma the monster had put her through when she was aged nine suddenly came flooding back. The man was child sex offender Kert Birtwistle and seeing his face on her screen horrified the 25-year-old who had been harbouring her own awful secret about him for almost a decade.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
thescottishsun.co.uk | Lauren Gregory |Anna Roberts
HEART pounding, Kaitlin Womack felt waves of revulsion in the pit of her stomach as the police mugshot flashed up on her Facebook feed. It was the photo of a man she knew far too well and the horrifying trauma the monster had put her through when she was aged nine suddenly came flooding back. The man was child sex offender Kert Birtwistle and seeing his face on her screen horrified the 25-year-old who had been harbouring her own awful secret about him for almost a decade.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
thesun.co.uk | Lauren Gregory |Anna Roberts
Shaking with fear, Kirsty Connoley braced herself for another lashing from her violent fiancé, David Barrett. 'I'm going to make a cup of boiling water and sugar and chuck it on your face,' he roared, before pinning the sobbing mum-of-three to the bed and calling her 'vile'. But what thug Barrett didn't know was that he was being filmed by Kirsty, in a clever ploy which would eventually bring his four-year campaign of abuse to an end.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
thesun.co.uk | Lauren Gregory
A MUM-of-three has revealed how her 10-month-old son was severely burnt at nursery. In February, Giancarlo Enzo Ramis, now one, knocked a pot of scalding water over himself and suffered second, third and fourth degree burns to 35 per cent of his body. He was hospitalised for over six weeks and endured numerous extensive surgeries. Eight months on from his traumatic ordeal, Giancarlo is on the road to recovery and has even taken his first ever steps.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Lauren Gregory
A council worker was left temporarily disabled after doctors mistook life-threatening sepsis for flu. Denise Devoto, 52, developed what she believed to be a terrible cough and cold in December 2022, and suffered coughing fits that made her feel like she'd 'broken a rib'. Despite feeling so weak she couldn't stand up and suffering extreme chest pain, two doctors concluded she had a common flu infection, and advised her to go home to recover.
