Guidance: Contains very strong language and upsetting scenes.
Through home footage and candid testimony, seven women tell their stories of surviving domestic abuse. With incident rates rising over the past decade, is the justice system helping victims, or is it part of the problem? Disclosure follows the women over the course of a year as they try to escape violence and seek justice against the men who abused them.
With unprecedented access to the Thames Valley Police Domestic Abuse Teams, and the victims of violence they are helping, Behind Closed Doors gives an extraordinary insight into the most common violent crime to take place in the home.
Danielle Lloyd embarks on a journey to understand the violent and controlling relationship she stayed in from the summer of 2004 until she won Miss GB in 2006.
Kellie Sutton told police that she was 'very frightened' of her abusive partner Steven Gane, just weeks before she took her own life. He was jailed after her death, for controlling and coercive behaviour. And now, in an unprecedented conclusion, an inquest jury has ruled that Kellie was unlawfully killed. Our Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long reports on a case that Kellie's family hopes will change the way such domestic abuse cases are handled.