As I said in my opening remarks, I strongly feel that if we can successfully educate the justice system on what coercive control actually is, if we can then actually get some cases prosecuted, which is another issue in Britain, and if we can get some convictions, then we're building an evidentiary pattern. If it later results in further violence—or, as in my daughter's case, femicide—there is an evidentiary record.
Right now, that doesn't exist for women in situations like my daughter's. In fact, former MP Pam Damoff once asked me to imagine how Lindsay could have gone to court to get a red flag order based on this type of coercive control. That was a very high legal bar. My daughter would never have been given an emergency risk order. She wouldn't have been successful. There was actually nothing in place. He never laid a hand on her, so there was nothing about which my daughter could complain to the police. The only thing was his threats of suicide. As I mentioned, she was terribly afraid that she would experience reprisal if she reported that to the police. She honestly believed in the gaslighting that he would never harm her.