Victoria Derbyshire breaks down in tears as she recalls horror childhood in Rochdale at hands of abusive dad

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Littleborough, Rochdale, as she recalls the abuse her family suffered at the hands of her late father. She said: "I remember once, he locked my mum in their bedroom and he was hitting her and there was loads of noise and I was scared."So I ran from here down to the police station which was, I don’t know, maybe a mile or something?"I was 12 or 13, I was so scared, I just ran to the police station, just ran in and said, ‘My dad’s hitting my mum, please can you come’.”She added that following Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s stay-at-home orders at the beginning of the lockdown 'one of my first thoughts was, 'So, what if you are living in a house with a violent partner?'She added: "Because you would be literally trapped." In an article for the.