Women being trapped in relationships due to economic abuse, charity finds

Nearly one in seven women have recently experienced economic abuse from a current or former partner, according to Surviving Economic Abuse (Dominic Lipinski/PA) - (PA Archive)

Nearly one in seven (15%) women say they have recently experienced economic abuse from a current or former partner, a charity has found.

Of those women who had experienced economic abuse, nearly a quarter (23%) said that it had prevented them from leaving the relationship – which could equate to around one million women if the findings were projected across the UK according to calculations by Ipsos.