A high court judge has overturned a “dangerously outdated” family court decision made on the basis that domestic abuse between a father and a mother would not be likely to pose a risk to their children, and was “largely historical”.
The mother had made seven separate allegations of rape, the earliest in June 2009, and the latter four all dating to 2020. She had also made further allegations including that the father had stalked her, threatened to disclose intimate photographs, thrown a coffee mug, and in 2021 had removed the brake pads from a car, which police had said could constitute a potential offence of attempted murder.
