19 Jul 2024
Woman suffered ECT over a decade for being lesbian
Joan Bellingham's past and future were stolen from her, not because of something she did - but because of who she is. Ms Bellingham spent more than a decade receiving a cocktail of drugs and electroconvulsive therapy because she is a lesbian. She hopes the Government will imagine what it would be like for their children to face the same fate as it contemplates what to do in response to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry, Timothy Brown reports.