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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Eliza Ketcher

Victoria Derbyshire: ‘My father beat me with a spoon, hit me with a belt, and threw scalding soup over me’

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Victoria Derbyshire has told The Independent how her father used to beat her with a wooden spoon, hit her with a belt, and regularly beat her mother so severely that on one occasion he broke a rib.

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