At first, Victor love-bombed Anna. By the end, he’d rigged a doorbell camera to track her. Coercive and controlling behaviour has been a crime since 2015, but few cases get to court. What happens when they do?
In a stuffy, overheated courtroom, a jury of 10 women and two men are watching baby monitor footage of an infant happily kicking its feet in a quilt-lined crib. The parents are off-camera, but their voices are audible, and the baby seems to be following their movements with its eyes.
The mother’s hands become visible as she goes to touch the baby, before she backs away suddenly. A while later a male voice is heard saying: “Fuck you, you little fucking troll, you absolute bitch.” The baby flaps its arms up and down, while a soft toy, propped up at the end of the cradle, stares on blankly.
