The moment the doorbell rang, Claire Throssell knew the worst had happened. Hands trembling as she opened the door, she saw a police officer on the doorstep.
Frozen to the spot, she begged him: ‘What has he done?’ The look in the policeman’s eyes confirmed her worst fears.
Claire’s abusive ex-husband, whom she had finally plucked up the courage to leave six months earlier, had done exactly what she had warned the family court he would do if given unsupervised