Exclusive: Family calls for inquest, saying Wilkinson visited police ‘almost every day’ before she was murdered by her husband in 2021

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    A court has previously heard that Johnston tied Wilkinson to a clothesline and set her on fire on 20 April 2021.

    Holy shit, I assumed it was an impulsive murder (not that that is good). But doing that to her? What a total piece of shit.

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        9 months ago

        Edit: I made a snarky comment, but I think you would be better served looking up why abusive relationships are so complicated. It’s more than women picking shitty guys, there are layers of manipulative behavior and the creation of a constant state of dependence and fear. Oftentimes, you don’t realize how shitty someone is until you are deep into the relationship, sometimes you don’t realize it all.

        This is not simple women picking shitty men, there is so much more going on here and you shouldn’t distill it down to something so simple

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          It’s the men who complain about women picking bad guys who are the guys who mask their controlling behavior in “niceness.”

          That’s what got me. I thought he was a good guy, but he was just an MRA idiot.

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        Wow. Way to victim blame the woman for marrying someone she assumed wouldn’t kill her. Like WTF is this incel logic? You’re not a good man killing yourself out of loneliness. You’re a douche bag who doesn’t see WHY they’re alone.

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        It could be viewed more accurately as ‘never underestimate the power that emotional abuse and manipulation can have on a vulnerable person’. You’re not wrong exactly but I’m not sure what point you are trying to make. To me it makes it sound like you’re saying she should have known better than to let herself get murdered.