'The most depressing place in Manchester': inside city's domestic violence court

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As other crimes plummet, in unhappy families abuse carries on behind the closed doors of lockdown

Manchester magistrates court is normally one of the busiest in the UK, with 16 often chaotic courtrooms. Each morning, a queue of defendants and lawyers snakes out of the building, some people frantically finishing their cigarettes as they wait to go through the security scanners and up the escalators to the second floor.

 

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By far the most depressing aspect of this whole business.

Tragic reading about these women suffering domestic abuse from partners, sons & daughters. The Police and Courts are doing a good job 👍

Is it to much,to ask people not to beat the shit out of each other?

If people can maintain sanity for just a few more days, these incidents will greatly decrease.

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