Sharon Holland says her life "is not the same anymore" since her daughter Chloe took her own life after suffering sustained domestic abuse. An annual national police report has revelaed that most domestic abuse victims die by suicide. Sharon met Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips who says in most cases like Chloe's, "it wasn't the first cry for help". Assistant Commissioner of the National Police Chiefs' Council Louisa Rolfe adds the report "identifies how much more we need to do, not just in policing but in wider society". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00My whole life's changed. It will never go back to the same as it was before.
00:05It's just not the same anymore.
00:07Losing your child is just... you just can't go back from that.
00:12So in every case of the families that I met today,
00:17and in every case of any family I've ever met
00:20where somebody died by suicide with a history of domestic abuse,
00:25it wasn't the first cry for help.
00:27It identifies for us how much more we need to do,
00:30but not just in policing, in wider society and with other organisations,
00:35because in many of those cases,
00:38the risk factors were not only coercive controlling behaviour,
00:42they were mental ill health, they were drug and alcohol addiction.