She once escaped a killer - under today's laws she would still be trapped

By Adele Horin
Updated November 9 2012 - 6:39pm, first published April 6 2011 - 3:15pm

IT WAS the summer of 1976 when Helen Cummings found the courage to leave her violent husband, take the children, pack the car and head for a new life.

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