Broadcast Exclusive: Domestic abuse survivor from Doncaster urges others to 'speak out'
Kelly Walker left her abusive partner this summer & he's now in jail
A domestic abuse survivor from South Yorkshire is calling on others who are suffering at the hands of their partner 'not to hide the truth from others'.
Kelly Walker from Doncaster is speaking out - after her abuser was sentenced recently to nearly three years behind bars & given a 10-year restraining order to stop him from contacting her.
For sixteen years, Kelly Walker was in a relationship with a man who controlled her every move:
"He'd cut the plugs off my hair straighteners, break my bra's, hide my underwear and hide my shoes."
Until one night this summer things reached boiling point - & Kelly had to leave the family home with her children in Doncaster - after Adrian Noblet threatened to kill her.
She recorded the incident on her phone - & Noblet - from Selby in North Yorkshire - who's also the dad to five of Kelly's six kids - had no option but to plead guilty.
He was jailed for almost three years in August - & Kelly tells us in a Broadcast Exclusive that leaving him saved her life:
"I'm in that time of my life now where I'm ready to talk about it, I'm ready to empower other men and women, and hopefully I can help save a few lives, because that night - he would have killed me.
"I reached out to a close friend who convinced me to get out of the situation I was in.
"Otherwise, I don't think I'd be here, as I probably didn't take it as serious as I should've done.
"I just want more people not to hide away when this is happening to them.
"This kind of behaviour is not okay; we don't have to tolerate it and we can have a better life.
"I'm starting to live that better life now - every day is more and more beautiful.
"It took a long time to understand just what abuse I had been through.
"It's not like in any way he was a bad dad to any of our children, so that's what makes it even more difficult, but he was bad to me."
Kelly now plans to host a domestic violence awareness event in Doncaster next month at the Red Lion pub in Askern.