Eleanor Doyle

And I want you to leave.

And I want to, you know, to give the kids the upbringing that they deserve.

And he proceeded to take the furniture from upstairs and throw it down the stairs.

I can still see the tree then.

And my eldest son, like covering his two little sisters in the sitting room, cowering aside in the corner of it as he threw every bit of furniture down the stairs.

and then I rang my sister and she said that's it you've asked me to be patient you've asked me to give him time you've asked me she said today is the day I'm done and I'll never forget it she came down with a good old roll of black bags and she packed every last item belonging to him into black bags she put them in her car she drove down to his father's house and she put them in the front garden she came up she contacted the neighbor and she the locks changed in the doors

And now my sister is the most, she's Mother Teresa.

I met your sister.

Yeah.

And she just, so I knew then when she did that, that like it was necessary because she would give anyone the shirt off her back.

She'd help anyone.

She's just such a selfless person.

And then that happened and all that abuse that happened.

had gone on physically, emotionally.

I was completely broken and he wasn't going to stop there.

He was relentless.

Yeah.

But he was clever too enough because it would always be in places.

Do you know, like, one of the worst moments

For me it was one night he tried to strangle me and I'll never forget it.