'He was obviously a fantastic actor, but he acted in real life as well. “I thought he was the best thing since sliced bread, there was nobody like him. A choice, will I just jump … then I was pulled back,” she said. I wasn’t sure how I would do it, I was just thinking survival mode. 'That was the window I was contemplating jumping out, possibly breaking my two legs and pelvis. He pulled me back from the window, by the hair, and dragged me, and tried to strangle me for what felt like an eternity and I could see the room closing in,” she tells the programme. The attack went on for over two hours, Sarah said. On September 18, 2016, Sarah Behan was assaulted by her then partner Patrick Fitzpatrick, who was an actor in RTÉ’s Fair City playing the character “Zumo” from 2007 to 2016. One in four women in Ireland who have been in a relationship have been abused by a current or former partner. In the programme to be aired on Monday night, staff tell of their daily struggles to keep victims safe, because a shortage of refuge places means they are forced to live with their abusers. During that time, RTÉ Investigates filmed in several refuges across the country as the services reached crisis point. The last 12 months has seen a fourfold increase in emergency calls from domestic abuse survivors. A survivor of domestic abuse who had to endure 16 court dates despite her attacker pleading guilty will tell how her trauma “was relived over and over again” in an RTÉ Investigates programme.

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