CCTV footage shows Rhianon, 49, a mum from Rhosgadfan in Wales, held at gunpoint by Gareth Wyn Jones in 2019 with a firearm returned to him by North Wales Police. Reliving the eight-hour ordeal, Rhianon’s voice shakes as she says: “Several times that night I thought I wasn’t going to see the children again.

She believes the new guidance would have done nothing to protect her because Wyn Jones, like so many abusers, was manipulative enough to conceal his abuse.