Why charming men can make dangerous lovers

Sandra Horley, head of domestic violence charity Refuge, wrote a pioneering book on the abuse of women 25 years ago. She’s just republished it because the violence goes onOne day, in the mid-80s, Sandra Horley sat on a stool in her partner’s studio and told him what she was seeing at work. She described the women who were coming to her refuges (which she ran on an overdraft), their terror, the injuries they’d sustained at the hands of their partners – hit with hammers, ra