She says his answer was to go to the police and tell them that he was the victim of domestic abuse, not her.<\/p>\n
He told officers that she and her family had subjected him to coercive control, and that she had been physically violent as well.<\/p>\n
“He told me just before he made the domestic abuse report: “Oh don’t worry, I’ve multiple ways to stay here. I don’t need you to stay in the country’,” she says.<\/p>\n
“I was being supported by the authorities and I was being supported by domestic abuse agencies, way before his allegation of domestic abuse. And for him to turn the narrative around and say I’m a perpetrator, it was heartbreaking.”<\/p>\n
Aisha says the police never took any action against her in relation to her ex-partner’s allegations.<\/p>\n
He also never faced rape charges, as she changed her mind about whether to support a prosecution.<\/p>\n
But Aisha was awarded more than \u00a317,000 by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority meaning they judged that the sexual assault she had alleged was more likely than not to have occurred.<\/p>\n
Aisha says her ex-husband’s campaign against her did not end there.<\/p>\n
In January 2023, she was arrested by the police after he made another allegation against her.<\/p>\n
She says she spent a total of eight hours away from her baby who she was breastfeeding at the time because her daughter was allergic to formula milk.<\/p>\n
“When I left, I went to breastfeed my baby and when I got home, I just wanted to end my life,” she says.<\/p>\n
Her MP, Jess Phillips, wrote to officers that day, saying “I do not believe she would have been arrested had they [police] been aware of the history between her and her ex-partner”.<\/p>\n
The Birmingham Yardley MP continued to apply pressure and, after becoming a Home Office minister, advised Aisha to forward any evidence to the Home Office, saying she would follow up on it.<\/p>\n
“The Home Office is allowing this to happen,” Aisha told us. <\/p>\n
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