Self, who was also from London, suffered multiple serious injuries during the attack at the hotel in Hartley Brook Road.<\/p>\n
He died in hospital on 21 December 2023.<\/p>\n
Text messages shown to the jury displayed the extent of Murphy’s attempt to control her partner, Essex Police said.<\/p>\n
He also had injuries that dated back to previous assaults by Murphy prior to the fatal attack.<\/p>\n
Ashe Self said she had watched her son change from being a “sociable, happy person to a sad, uncertain and withdrawn one”.<\/p>\n
She continued: “Knowing James as I do so well, I realise he would not have fully understood the violence or how to deal with it. <\/p>\n
“He thought loving her would be enough. James, as always, believed in the good in people.<\/p>\n
“His kindness may have cost him his life.”<\/p>\n
Det Anthony Kopf, who led the investigation into Murphy, said the family conducted themselves with dignity in the face of “the most challenging evidence”.<\/p>\n
He added: “This case serves as a reminder that domestic abuse can affect anyone, including men.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Self, who was also from London, suffered multiple serious injuries during the attack at the hotel in Hartley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-369308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}