Coercive control inquiry hears harrowing accounts of shame, humiliation and abuse

Of the 100 plus submissions put forward to the NSW Parliament’s Joint Select Committee on Coercive Control, it is the personal stories that are most harrowing.

“Some time ago, my kind and gentle friend was brutally murdered by her husband,” reads one submission.

“His final act of control was his first of physical violence. My friend had been subjected to years of what I now identify as coercive control.”

Other submissions outline lived experience in…