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Philip Blunden, area lead on domestic abuse for the CPS, said it was a "misconception" that male victims were rare.

Philip Blunden, a domestic violence specialist at the CPS, said cases where domestic abuse led to murder were "thankfully relatively rare".

Ryan Aust, who lives in Blunden Court behind the water station at the library, said some residents are unable to leave their house to get supplies because of disabilities.

Blunden and his colleagues were unable to report the story — or anything unflattering to their Soviet hosts.

Other Western reporters also remember this period as an era when they had access that would have been unimaginable to Blunden and the other Metropol journalists.