School staff attack fear
Dinner ladies, caretakers and teaching assistants face regular attacks at school.
A study revealed some have been throttled, punched and kicked by pupils.
Research by the GMB union shows one in five are attacked every week. They say some staff are terrified of going to work.
A spokeswoman added: “The results make truly disturbing reading.”
Fiona Drouet, 45, is in talks with Scottish Women’s Aid to set up seminars warning young women about being forced into extreme sexual activity and the risks faced.
Law student Emily, 18, took her own life in her Aberdeen University bedroom last year af ter a campaign of violence at the hands of 21-year- old boyfriend Angus Milligan.
Milligan pled guilty to assaulting Emi ly, abusing and threatening her, using abusive and of fensive language and sending offensive, indecent, obscene and menacing texts.
Five other charges, including one alleging he tried to choke her minutes before she took her own l ife on March 17, 2016, were dropped. He will be sentenced next month.
Fiona only discovered what her daughter had gone through after her death, when she saw injuries in a selfie Emily had sent to a friend.
Dr Marsha Scott, chief executive of Scottish Women’s Aid, believes Emily’s story will demonstrate that domestic abuse can happen to anyone.
She said: “We’re initiating some discussions with contacts we have at a number of Scottish universities to see if there’s