Mum shares how partner killed their sons in plea for violence to end

A woman who had her life torn apart after her abusive ex-husband killed their two sons in a deliberate fire is working to bring an end to violence against women and children. Campaigner Claire Throssell MBE, of South Yorkshire, attended the opening of a new women's centre in Mansfield on Wednesday, March 8.

Soon after this incident in April 2014 Claire decided to take the boys and leave Darren, and felt "so lucky that [her] mum lived a mile away" as for many women "they have nobody in that moment." For six months Jack and Paul "had a childhood" and were no longer "walking on eggshells" but things soon changed.

Claire said: "Paul died from that fire, they kept him alive so that I could hold him as he died. This is what happens when children don't have a voice, the only time Jack's voice was ever heard was on that landing." "I promised both my boys as I held them as they died that no child should have to die at the hands of their parents.” Since their tragic deaths in October 2014, Claire has tirelessly been campaigning to stop unsafe child contact with dangerous perpetrators of domestic abuse, and feels these changes need to start in family courts.

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