Shoe display aims to highlight domestic abuse
BBCA campaigner against domestic abuse is calling for policy makers to do more to tackle what she calls a crisis of violence against women.
Police forces across the West Midlands recorded nearly 100,000 crimes related to domestic abuse in the year to March 2024.
Tess Lynam, 31, created a display from 80 pairs of women's shoes in Newport, Shropshire, which she says represents the women killed by men in the UK this year.
"It makes me feel really sad and frustrated that we're still talking about this, that things aren't changing," she said.
Ms Lynam hopes that by opening up about her own experience, it will be a step towards ending abuse against women.
She was 22 when she met her partner, who is now in prison, and said she suffered abuse for about six years.
"I wasn't allowed friends, I wasn't allowed to see my family - my family were actually banned from my house," she said.
"I wasn't allowed control over the money. I was told what I could and couldn't wear. I completely lost myself."
As well as organising the display, she has also been helping other victims through a local Facebook group.
The initiative has been supported by local councillor Thomas Janke.
"It's really important to highlight these problems and help as many women as possible get out of these situations," he said.
For Ms Lynam's mother, Marion Lennox, it is a relief her daughter is now safe.
"She's now able to be the person she always was, that was taken away from her," she said.
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