Wife of N.S. mass killer tells story publicly for the first time
“Gabriel controlled everything including my work, finances, social life and home life, so that if I didn’t obey he would take things away to punish and control me. He’d take my keys, my phone, even my salary,” Banfield wrote in a summary to the inquiry. “I was totally under his control. He wanted me to know that without him I had nothing.”
During the roundtable, she also called for added training of police officers, courts and other institutions in how to recognize this form of abuse.Nancy Ross, an assistant professor at Dalhousie University’s school of social work, said during the roundtable that while it’s important to recognize the seriousness of coercive control, she isn’t in favour of turning it into a criminal offence.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)