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Rachel Williams, who had her knee shot by her abusive husband
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“OF THOSE who had experienced domestic violence, over 40 per cent said it had affected their ability to work” (TUC Survey).
Talented, friendly and good with customers, Rachel Williams was everything an employer could ask for, yet the salon owner in Newport, South Wales, where she worked as a junior hairstylist until 2002 found that employing her “came with problems.”
This was something of an understatement. Rachel was in a relationship with a controlling and dangerous man and, as her colleagues would discover, domestic abusers rarely confine control over victims’ lives to the domestic sphere.
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