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Best-selling & award-winning novelist, screenwriter & producer. Founder/producer/writer @ Athena Syndrome Productions Ltd. IMDb: https://teapawt.net/t.co/ddbMAyafXR

Bridgnorth, England
Joined May 2009
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Simon Golding retweeted
Packaging live fish for transportation Would you want to be the fish in this scenario? #AnimalRights #Vegan #Fish
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Kevin Bishop (Sam) will be starring alongside Tamzin Outhwaite in the upcoming stage production of Abigail's Party. #GrangeHill #AbigailsParty
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My heart goes out to the parents of Marcus Anjorin and the police officers who were injured and the gentleman who protected his family I am so sorry for you all. We live in Dantes Inferno and we seem to only have stun guns
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#Convictions of two men, Basil Peterkin & Saliah Mehmet quashed today. Lord Justice Holroyde, Vice President of the #CourtofAppeal Criminal Division: “The CCRC has carried out a most thorough investigation for which we are grateful." ccrc.gov.uk/news/convictions…
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We know that at least 200 women take their own lives to escape an abuser and at least 10k try every year. At the time it feels like that is the only option to get out of the torture. It is not, so please reach out to a service. R.I.P Chloe. 💔 A family devastated because of one man’s reign of terror, abuse and violence. And the sentencing… I cannot even talk about it. dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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This is exactly what I’ve been told. It’s disgraceful and ultimately counterproductive.
Happy to be corrected if wrong (no sophistry 'tho) Prison Officer induction training which was 12 weeks residential when I joined, reduced to 9 & now 6, 2 of which are personal safety training. Four weeks training for a hugely complex, risky job. Explains awful attrition rate.
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Replying to @JMoncktonSmith
Kellie Sutton, a much loved mother of three, died on 26 August 2017 from a self-inflicted injury. A subsequent police investigation uncovered evidence that, as part of coercive & controlling behaviour, her partner Steven Gane had actively encouraged her to take her own life.🧵
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Can't wait to see everyone there - leadership from all kinds of communities and sectors coming together to end abuse 🙏💜
There is still time to register for our Networking Event and screening of the film 'Love?' (2022). 'Love?' is a feature length docudrama depicting #coercivecontrol, one of the least recognised forms of #domesticabuse. Register @ eida.org.uk/events
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Simon Golding retweeted
Survivors of domestic violence and abuse: You didn't 'attract abusers into your life'. Our societies create large numbers of abusers, and those large numbers of abusers are going to abuse a lot of people. This didn't happen because of who you were. You are doing your best in a society where abuse is very common. It's societies that need to do the long, hard work of creating fewer abusers and holding the existing ones accountable.
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Simon Golding retweeted
In Workington @CarnegieTheatre for my ‘The Serial Killer Next Door’ tour and as ever the Lakes prove to have some of the loveliest humans ever!
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I have written about taking a forensic approach to domestic homicide in the below book. These homicides deserve the serious attention we give to other types of homicide like serial and mass killings. The patterns are there and behavioural analysis is crucial.
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a long thread...just my thoughts for the day about coercive control, torture, the theft of a life...believe me, it is much more fun thinking about buying new dinner plates and paint colors, but alas these are the things I think about most days.
the thing about coercive control as a stealth form of domestic abuse is that you won't fully understand it all until the final lens is set. that final lens may be set with an uncalibrated, more aggressive attack. sometimes it is set w/ femicide or suicide.... 1/
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Simon Golding retweeted
Perpetrators are very fond of claiming to be victims-survivors, & often use the fact that their children very understandably don't like them as a pretext for claiming to be the victim. My research is clear on what being a victim-survivor of coercive control actually involves.
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Simon Golding retweeted
It's my view that coercive control is not hard to evidence: there's frequently plenty of evidence from texts & emails, financial records, third-party testimonies, medical records etc. The problem is more that people don't understand CC well enough to interpret the evidence.
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A huge increse in self harming in omen's prisons - this is a crisis of care and a red signal that prison is not for the traumatised and mentally ill. Not in the 19th century and not now.
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Simon Golding retweeted
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW: Come and hear the incredible @MsMelanieSykes in conversation with @SavidgeReads in Manchester on Wednesday, May 3, about her book Illuminated: Autism & All The Things I’ve left Unsaid: theportico.org.uk/event-cale…
We’re really proud to be hosting a launch of Melanie Sykes’ new book Illuminated next Wednesday 3 May with @HarperNorthUK. New article / interview about the book and the hostility (& harassment) faced by women in the media in the guardian: theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
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Simon Golding retweeted
My very good friend, Melanie Sykes @MsMelanieSykes - her book; 'Illuminated: Autism & All The Things I’ve left Unsaid' is out 27th April. It's a 10 star read! You can pre-order on Amazon - Kindle or Hardback below...   amazon.co.uk/Illuminated-Aut…
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