Dr Jeni Haynes

That he didn't see.

By that stage, by the time we got to the divorce, Linda was running the show.

Okay.

So as Boris has just said, I, Linda, was running the show.

And I have the greatest contempt for my father.

And by the time we get to the divorce in 1984, I'm not shy about telling him.

Ah.

Oh, yes.

Between myself and muscles, we got very aggressive towards the end.

We...

we would stand there and goad him, hit me, hit me, you know you want to.

Not because I wanted to be hit, but because I knew it was coming at some point during the day and it was easier to schedule it on my agenda and not on his.

Because waiting all day for what you know is going to come is actually, in our case...

It was worse than the abuse itself, that living in, what do we call it, anticipatory terror.

Right, yes.

So you goad him and then he hits you and he does what he's going to do and it's over with.

And you might have had that at 10.30 in the morning instead of having to wait till 5.30, 6 o'clock at night and be terrorised the whole time.

So, yeah, he knew something was coming.

Didn't help that I was...

I was free with my insults.