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Once bitten, twice shy

Sipping my coffee in the kitchen, I heard my husband Miles, then 45, call from our bedroom across the hall.

‘Who’s that shouting outside?’ he groaned.

It was 9.30am on a Sunday morning in August 2022.

I loved relaxing Sundays, and on this one Miles was enjoying a lie-in, while I made us a fry-up.

My daughter, then 14, was asleep in her room.

Sure enough, I could hear a woman’s voice coming from the front of our block of flats.

She sounded drunk.

I frowned.

We’d moved into our two-bedroom, ground-floor flat seven years earlier.

I was good mates with a few neighbours, including Debbie, who lived nearby.

We’d sit and chat in her front

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