Holly Deane-Johns

That night was the beginning of the end for me.

I didn't know it at the time, but that's exactly what it was.

As we were walking to the car, I made out I was going to run to see what they'd do.

They pulled their guns and they said, we will shoot you.

Yeah, look, it definitely felt very normal to me until I was probably maybe 10, 11 years old.

That's when I realised sort of what was going on between my parents.

My dad was a very heavy drinker and he would very often beat my mum up.

This was always done behind closed doors.

We never saw it, but we could hear it.

And we would see the aftermath of it after it had, you know, finished.

So that was sort of, I think, the beginning of things not being so normal.

And it was around that time as well.

They used to own a real estate agency.

I was young then, so I don't know what the circumstances were that it closed down, but it did.

And my mum and dad then opened up an escort business from the family home.

There were three telephone lines in our lounge room for the business.

A typical night would be, you know, there was five of us kids, mum and dad.

Typical night would be us all in the lounge room watching TV.

The phone would ring.

We'd all have to be quiet while mum took a booking.