{"id":72960,"date":"2026-02-16T04:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/katies-story-her-abusive-ex-partner-said-kill-yourself-when-she-did-police-dropped-domestic-violence-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T04:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:00:04","slug":"katies-story-her-abusive-ex-partner-said-kill-yourself-when-she-did-police-dropped-domestic-violence-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/katies-story-her-abusive-ex-partner-said-kill-yourself-when-she-did-police-dropped-domestic-violence-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie\u2019s story: her abusive ex-partner said \u2018kill yourself\u2019. When she did, police dropped domestic violence inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2074178eba49a8aa9d13e0be91768909f7231fcb\/0_217_4000_3199\/master\/4000.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=14f035a6f7161d79d92a9b62c3f3bd4b\" alt=\"Katie\u2019s story: her abusive ex-partner said \u2018kill yourself\u2019. When she did, police dropped domestic violence inquiry\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Katie\u2019s story: her abusive ex-partner said \u2018kill yourself\u2019. When she did, police dropped domestic violence inquiry<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">After her death, police dropped a case examining Katie Madden\u2019s former partner, despite evidence he had repeatedly told her to kill herselfRevealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their coreHours before Katie Madden took her own life, she had a tense phone call with her former partner Jonathon Russell. Russell was on bail after allegedly assaulting Madden \u2013 he was banned from contacting her \u2013 but the conversation took place nevertheless.There was a witness to the call who gave evidence to the inquest into Madden\u2019s death. Mason Jones, a friend of Madden\u2019s, said Russell was \u201cvile\u201d and \u201cabusive\u201d. Although Jones said he could not remember the exact words Russell used, he said: \u201cI recall Jon saying at least once that he was in control of the town and would end her life if she didn\u2019t do it herself.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/ng-interactive\/2026\/feb\/15\/domestic-abuse-katie-madden-family-justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Katie\u2019s story: her abusive ex-partner said \u2018kill yourself\u2019. When she did, police dropped domestic violence inquiry After her death, police dropped a case examining Katie Madden\u2019s former partner, despite evidence he had repeatedly told her to kill herselfRevealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their coreHours before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":72961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}