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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Decision to grant abusive partner access to daughter ‘alarming’, UK court hears

A view over the fence of the royal courts of justice building in London
The case is being heard in the family division of the high court in London. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

A decision to allow a father contact with his daughter despite him having sexually abused, domestically abused and coercively controlled the mother is “alarming”, a court has heard.

The allegations against the father, who is a member of the armed services, were found to have been proven on the balance of probabilities (the civil standard of proof) in a 2021 fact-finding judgment by the family court.

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