Arts Lab- Voices of Insight Collection

SAM: “I have a couple of flashes of memories. One incident I remember in the lounge room and him grabbing the old-fashioned dialling telephone, and saying to me, “don’t you think of calling anyone.” And I must have been about four, so I don’t know if I could. But he put the phone up on the mantlepiece out of my reach. My mum had been in the shower, and when she got out of the shower, he stormed from the living room into the hallway, where I could see, and he grabbed her around the throat, and was strangling her up against the wall.”

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Contained in galleries: DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE

SAM: “I have a couple of flashes of memories. One incident I remember in the lounge room and him grabbing the old-fashioned dialling telephone, and saying to me, “don’t you think of calling anyone.” And I must have been about four, so I don’t know if I could. But he put the phone up on the mantlepiece out of my reach. My mum had been in the shower, and when she got out of the shower, he stormed from the living room into the hallway, where I could see, and he grabbed her around the throat, and was strangling her up against the wall.”