tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post672295398083828856..comments2024-03-25T12:55:40.911+00:00Comments on Caron's Musings: Lallands Peat Worrier helps close Scottish domestic abuse loophole.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04988201531739344840noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post-49088469850287940502010-09-28T16:38:00.478+01:002010-09-28T16:38:00.478+01:00Many thanks for this post Caron. I don't know ...Many thanks for this post Caron. I don't know how significantly my interventions really were in prompting the speedy action. No doubt attentive folk working at the Crown Office played the major role in alerting ministers to the significant problems the Hatcher posed for future domestic abuse prosecutions. <br /><br />That said, I was pleased to be able to highlight the subject and prompt an article and parliamentary question or two to make quite quite sure that swift action followed. <br /><br />The lack of coverage this case received was intensely disturbing. Even without the problems it might present for future cases - the judgement itself is perverse and deserved far more attention.Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post-38382225302315661872010-09-28T12:12:36.977+01:002010-09-28T12:12:36.977+01:00"I was not aware of this so thank you, Caron,..."I was not aware of this so thank you, Caron, for writing about it. <br /><br />I do now wonder what my then solicitor's advice would now be, when I stripped off to show her a bruise caused by the buckle of a belt, had it not been 1977. <br /><br />Or how the aunt and uncle we were visiting might have probed more about the bruise on my cheek bone in 1983 instead of waiting until I told them I'd kicked him out - weeks later - to say: "Thank god for that - we couldn't stand the way he was speaking to you!"<br /><br />So my message is that we abused keep silent and pretend it isn't happening. And if anyone thinks one of their family or friends might be in this position then for goodness sake drag them to the law because they can now get help!"Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04988201531739344840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34128264.post-58904863811737765712010-09-28T12:12:25.937+01:002010-09-28T12:12:25.937+01:00A comment from my friend Anne Horner, copied with ...A comment from my friend Anne Horner, copied with her permission from FacebookAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04988201531739344840noreply@blogger.com