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Ms Samantha Knights QC & Zoe McCallum (instructed by Duncan Lewis) for the Claimant Mr Tom Brown (instructed by Government Legal Department) for the Defendant Hearing dates: 2nd & 3rd July 2018 ____________________
• On previous occasions, the Claimant says, she had reported that her partner was abusing her. She says that he was "beating me up". She says that she opened up about both his physical abuse and his sexual abuse after her partner was deported. She was really scared about the prospect of being deported to the same place where she had been ten years previously.
• Her uncle died when she was 17. Her mother was badly depressed. Her grandfather passed away when she was 19 and her mother was "lost in herself". When she was 20, her best friend was killed, and when she was 21, her partner killed himself. When she was 22, her mother died from lung and stomach cancer. The following day her aunt died. She explained how the effect of these bereavements meant she could not continue with her personnel management course at university and she tried to kill herself "a couple of times".
• Initially, DE provided her with considerable support. But then he got her to try drugs and she "liked them" because for a little while she could forget her life. She says that her mother left her a lot of money but she spent it all in two years. That, she said, was related to her relationship with DE. She acknowledges it was "my fault as well because I was using drugs and loved him".
• Her stepfather and godmother died, and shortly thereafter DE changed. He moved in with her and started to beat her up. She said he persuaded her to sell the house and as a result the last of her money was gone. She intended to escape from him and go to Spain but he discovered her plan. He "took me to a minibus" on which people were travelling to England and gave her tablets. As a result, she slept all the way. She says he put a bottle of alcohol between her legs so that when she woke up and started to ask where she was he would laugh at her and conclude that she was drunk.
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