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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Yvonne Roberts

‘He took every penny’: the women left with a debt mountain by coercive partners

Ruth Dodsworth
‘Everything I thought we owned, we didn’t’: TV presenter Ruth Dodsworth. Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock

“I’ve got nothing. I’ve worked for 26 years and the only asset I have is my pension. I have no savings, no home and my credit rating is destroyed because of the credit cards and loans he took out in my name. Everything I thought we owned, we didn’t.”

Two years ago, Ruth Dodsworth, a television journalist and weather presenter, gave a number of interviews disclosing that she had been a victim of domestic abuse. For almost a decade, her now ex-husband Jonathan Wignall phoned her up to 150 times a day, tracked her movements and was physically abusive.

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