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In many cases covered on this podcast, we sadly and inevitably cover cases that involve domestic abuse.

But something I've recently been thinking about is how and if domestic abuse ends when a couple get

older. When they reach retirement age, when they get weaker physically and mentally,

what happens if the victim hasn't managed to leave? What does that look like? Statistics from the

charity Age UK say one in six adults over the age of 60, experience domestic abuse.

Sometimes that abuse is inflicted by a carer or family member other than their intimate partner.

But in 2003, the Office of National Statistics estimated that 3.2% of people from the ages 60 to 74 were experiencing domestic abuse from their partners and 1.4% of people over the age of 75.

In today's case, we're going to look at what can happen if domestic abuse and violence continues way after retirement age.

I'm In the early 1990s, a man called Ian Rool was selling a car in the county of Devon in the south of England.

A woman called Christine came over to buy the car.

She was homeless and she had three children.

Her marriage had failed and she was trying to rebuild her life.

Ian was with another woman at the time, but something sparked between them at that meeting

and they soon became an item.

Ian took on her three children as his own, and their relationship was intense.

Christine would tell her friends that Ian was all over her like a rash, and friends described

her, a smitten. But whilst this relationship was intense, it was also volatile.

Between 1992 and 1994, the pair made a total of five police reports on each other.

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