Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWFC 161 (B)
CASE No: LU22P00248
IN THE FAMILY COURT AT LUTON
Luton Justice Centre
Floors 4 & 5, Arndale House
Luton Point
Luton
LU1 2EN
Date: 2 June 2025
Before :
RECORDER PATEL
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Applicant in person
Ms Manveet Chhina, Solicitor of Jung & Co Solicitors for the Respondent
Hearing dates: 9-10 April 2025
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JUDGMENT
Recorder Patel:
a. Medical assessment
b. Adjournment
c. Time to consider the bundle.
Background
a. Verbal abuse on a regular basis, including "cunt" and "lazy tramp"
b. Physical abuse - placing a pillow over the mother's face and punching it while she was pregnant with D
c. Strangulation during an argument in Feb 2021
d. Threats to kill the mother and himself with a knife and gun in Dec 2021
e. Emotional abuse by accusing the mother of infidelity consistently, demeaning and belittling her; and threatening to leave the relationship
f. Coercive behaviour through persistence for engagement in his sexual desires
g. Emotional manipulation by threatening seeking out others to fulfil his sexual desires and doing so
h. Rape on one occasion
i. Isolating the mother through threats to leave; criticising her friends and restricting her ability for social interaction
j. Restricting the mother's ability to spend and access finances independently.
a. The father made false allegations about the mother.
b. Initiating and prolonging court proceedings, including making several applications within them; using them to exert control and pressure on the mother in particular by seeking protective orders against her.
c. Locating the mother through a caravan site, having likely followed the children after contact; and locating A's school by exercising his parental responsibility with the local authority at a time when the mother and the children had been accommodated in a refuge.
Facts
Welfare
Parental responsibility
S91(14) Children Act
Non-molestation order
Dr Sumi Ratnam, Consultant in Forensic Psychiatry
Mr Marc Buckel, Cafcass
Discussion and Analysis
Conclusion