When you’re in hell, extreme heat starts to feel normal. That’s all I could think of when I watched the excellent Sunday Night story about Simon Gittany, the man who killed his 30-year-old fiancee Lisa Harnum by throwing her from their 15th floor apartment balcony.
Because the most disturbing quotes in an incredibly chilling interview with Gittany’s new girlfriend, Rachelle Louise were the ones where she responded to journalist Ross Coulthart’s questions about Gittany’s treatment of Lisa Harnum before her murder in 2011.
Referring to the documented pattern of controlling behaviour Gittany displayed, Coulthart put this to Rachelle Louise: “He told Lisa just to wear basic clothes. That she couldn’t wear dresses, just to wear pants. And she wasn’t to go to clubs anymore because he got uncomfortable with all the guys around and not to wear high heels to the shops.”
“Well, he doesn’t like me to wear high heels to the shops either,” replied Rachelle Louise, shaking her head slightly in a “duh” kind of way as if that was a just, and obvious, and imminently reasonable demand to make on your partner. “But the other stuff I don’t believe at all.”
Why Rachelle? Why don’t you believe it? Have you been so brainwashed by your abuser that your understanding of basic acceptable behaviour in a relationship has become twisted into a place where there’s an enforced dress code? Do you see nothing wrong with that?
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Too late for her to back down now. She's given him 90,000 dollars. Plus her parents gave Simon thousands too. To save face and pave the way for appeals what else can she say? And to the poster here who claims Lisa had NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER how do you know that? In my experience women who suffer from buliemia suffer quite the opposite. Low self esteem and depression. Certainly not the hallmark of NPD. Shame on you.
Lastly, for anyone who is in doubt that Simon was a nice guy, how would you feel being spied on by secret CCT cameras, recording every word and deed and text? Sound normal? Being told what to wear? Yea that's loving...