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A mum terrorised by her controlling son resorted to hiding in her own home to avoid his threatening demands. Marianne Montague’s life was made a misery by abusive Nicholas Montague, who constantly forced her to hand over money for alcohol and drugs. So aggressive was his behaviour that she would make efforts to appear not to be home, or even leave her house in Herne Bay to stay elsewhere, so he could not find her. On one occasion the 32-year-old even threatened to pull the handbrake on her car as she was driving if she did not give him cash. Her months-long ordeal only ended after she felt she…

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