‘No one believed my sister was in danger’: how race leaves abused women at risk Yvonne Roberts
After 12 years of marriage, “Z” was brutally murdered by her French husband. A year before her death, the couple and their daughter had returned from France to the north of England to be closer to Z’s British Pakistani family. Z had two degrees but her husband made her take a job in a retail store. She was required to hand him all her wages. “She had holes in her shoes,” says her sister, Sanaya. “She used to be lively but she had become so withdrawn. She secretly came to see me and I couldn’t bear the state she was in.”
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