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'It broke me' – Survivor recounts experience under notorious hostile environment
Demonstrators protest against the hostile environment immigration policy outside the Home Office in Westminster, London in 2018

A DOMESTIC abuse survivor has described living under the Tories’ hostile environment for years as a “nightmare,” which “broke [her] down inside.” 

Dimple Patel, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, believed that she would finally be safe when she arrived in Britain in 2008.

Having suffered a traumatic incident in her home country of India, she said that her only choices were to flee or take her life.

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