Lawyers seek justice for women jailed for killing abusive partners

A failure to account for previous violence has led to at least 20 unsafe murder convictions, campaigners claim

It was a specific moment in which she thought she might die that drove Stella to the brink. He had strangled me at the bottom of the stairs and that frightened me because you can get punched in the face or your hand broken, but I had never lost my breath before," she recalled.

For Nicole, she was pushed over the edge" when violence by her partner triggered a post-traumatic response to historic abuse by other men. I was getting flashbacks of abuse ... everything came to a head and I just lost it."