A lady from Thailand arrived in the UK a month ago to stay for 3 months with her boyfriend, who's an EU national, (she has a UK issued 180 day multi-entry visitor visa) with. A week after arriving he started to be abusive to her especially after drinking and has assaulted her on a few occasions, apologising in the morning and stating he couldn't remember doing it. One time that was evidenced in a photo. Today he got abusive and demanded that she leave his house without any money and he had bought a single ticket and she has not got the funds to return to Thailand.
She is now staying with a family member who is her only other contact in the UK. They escorted her from the property whilst they were on the phone to the police as he was being intimidating whilst following them and wanted to know where they lived as he was going to contact immigration to cancel her visa. The Police arranged for her to go to the station and have taken details and she will be returning there tomorrow to make a statement with an interpreter present, they have some photographic evidence and have given a crime reference number.
They were unsure of whether to arrest him due to her probably not being able to attend a court case due to Covid-19 and the length of time it's taking for cases to reach court, but due to the "freakish" nature of the assaults that he has committed it looks like they are going to take further action. She has also agreed that she will press charges and will attend court if needed. It has been a relief for her that she has people to support her as prior to this she felt she was alone and stuck with the boyfriend until he was ready for her to return to Thailand.
She obviously needs to make contact with immigration to let them know about the circumstances but doesn't know where to start and the Police were unable to help with this.
Does anyone know what her best course of action for this is? Who/How does she contact immigration?
Also her boyfriend was supposed to fund her entire trip/air fare and I would imagine that there may be a covering letter with immigration that might state this, but he has now left her without any money or a ticket to return to Thailand. Is there anyway that he can be made to honour/pay for this, even if it's via a "civil" court action?
She is now staying with a family member who is her only other contact in the UK. They escorted her from the property whilst they were on the phone to the police as he was being intimidating whilst following them and wanted to know where they lived as he was going to contact immigration to cancel her visa. The Police arranged for her to go to the station and have taken details and she will be returning there tomorrow to make a statement with an interpreter present, they have some photographic evidence and have given a crime reference number.
They were unsure of whether to arrest him due to her probably not being able to attend a court case due to Covid-19 and the length of time it's taking for cases to reach court, but due to the "freakish" nature of the assaults that he has committed it looks like they are going to take further action. She has also agreed that she will press charges and will attend court if needed. It has been a relief for her that she has people to support her as prior to this she felt she was alone and stuck with the boyfriend until he was ready for her to return to Thailand.
She obviously needs to make contact with immigration to let them know about the circumstances but doesn't know where to start and the Police were unable to help with this.
Does anyone know what her best course of action for this is? Who/How does she contact immigration?
Also her boyfriend was supposed to fund her entire trip/air fare and I would imagine that there may be a covering letter with immigration that might state this, but he has now left her without any money or a ticket to return to Thailand. Is there anyway that he can be made to honour/pay for this, even if it's via a "civil" court action?
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