Depp v Heard – muddying the waters around domestic violence

Amber Heard was always going to be a questionable flag-bearer for the #metoo movement.But the jury’s finding against her in the Depp libel trial, while understandable, has raised concerns that the fight against domestic violence has taken a step backwards. Activists claim she has been vilified, the victim of gaslighting, as is common when abuse victims try to blow the whistle. Though the holes in her stories were too large to ignore.  Both sound a nightmare and neither’s life ha