A man whose partner used a broken dinner plate to kill him had "stayed silent" about the abuse he faced, according to his friends.
Paul Lavelle, 50, was attacked by his partner, Sarah Lewis, with a jagged shard of broken dinner plate during a drunken dispute at his Rock Ferry home in May 2017. Lewis, of Croxteth Avenue, Seaforth, left Mr Lavelle to slowly bleed to death and was jailed for seven-and-a-half years in January 2018.
After he was killed, Paul's friends set up the Paul Lavelle Foundation, with the intention of encouraging more men to speak out about their experiences of domestic abuse. Co-founder of the foundation, Paul Gladwell, told the ECHO: “We lost our friend.
