When Sierra* escaped an abusive relationship in 2019, it cost her tens of thousands of pounds.
She had to move with her children four times in three months to escape her abuser – and when she suspected he had attached a tracker to her car, she had to spend thousands to buy another one.
“My ex ended up getting hold of my new address and it became impossible to get away from him,” she told The Independent.
“I had to move house four times in a matter of three months, and the children had to go to school every day, so I needed a car.”
As years passed, the legal costs of…
