Domestic violence survivor speaks out about GPS ankle monitoring failure

An alleged domestic violence victim-survivor is the first to speak publicly about how Western Australia’s hole-riddled GPS tracking laws have endangered lives.

The woman spoke out about her own experience with domestic violence. Credit: WAtoday

Kelly North, who lived in a regional town, said she was perpetually moving between short-stay accommodations to flee her alleged attacker who left her “half-dead” through sexual assault and doused her in hot water to allegedly “burn any evidence off”.

“I had to lay there and take it,” she said.

“When he was strangling me, I couldn’t move because I was sitting down. He first grabbed me around the throat with his hand, and then he came - with his full force - and put his arm around my throat and kept going until he passed out.

“It was just un