Escaping with her two-year-old twin boys, Rachael Natoli left her seven-and-a-half-year abusive relationship in April 2015.
At the hands of her then-husband, she suffered emotional and psychological abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse and financial abuse.
“I moved [to Australia] in December 2007. I had met him on holiday here, in the August [of that year],” Ms Natoli told SBS News.
“I went home [to England], packed up my stuff, handed in my notice, rented out my house, sold my car and moved back out here [to Australia] three months later.”
What she didn’t know, is that the abuse would start almost instantly.
