Teenager Kirstie speaks out for domestic abuse documentary three years after her mother Natalie Hemming was murdered

“Natalie doesn’t have a voice anymore. We are it,” Joanne Beverley tells me. She is sitting by the side of her niece Kirstie, who, less than three years after the murder of her mother, Natalie Hemming, has told her story publicly for the first time in a heartbreaking documentary on domestic abuse.

Kirstie was just 12 when her stepfather Paul Hemming beat her mum to death at the family’s Milton Keynes home. Her body was found in woodland three weeks after she seemingly vanished in May 2016. Mother-of-three Natalie, 31, had been subject to violence and coercive control by her partner for years.