"O.J. threw me against the walls....and on the floor. Put bruises on my arm and back. The window scared me. Thought he'd throw me out...
Everywhere I go he shows up. I really think he is going to kill me"
These are the harrowing words of Nicole Brown Simpson who on Sunday June 12 1994 was brutally murdered in the garden of her Brentwood home in Los Angeles as her two children were asleep.
Nicole's former husband O.J. Simpson was subsequently arrested, tried and acquitted of her murder and that of her friend Ronald Goldman in a relentless blaze of publicity.
It seems incredible that all of this happened over twenty years ago as I can still recall the news stories, the interviews, the infamous "Bronco Chase" and the ghastly photographs....
I can still recall where I was when I heard the cries of jubilation and horror as the verdict was announced, the anguish of the families.....and the prophetic words of Nicole:
"I really think he is going to kill me"
Nicole was a battered woman for many years who went to several experts on domestic violence for help, who asked the police to arrest Simpson on January 1 1989 after another savage beating, who kept a journal that documented the assaults and the threats and had photographs taken of her bruised face...

She would eventually leave Simpson in February 1992 and although her divorce was finalised in October 1992, she would continue to be stalked, intimidated and threatened until the year of her death.
On Sunday May 8 1994 and in the presence of others Nicole signed her name to her Last Will and Testament which she was to keep in a safety deposit box with her journals, letters and photographs that had documented her beatings.
By Midnight on Sunday June 12 1994 Nicole's body had been found, bloodied and bruised. She had died as the result of severe knife trauma.
Despite the celebrity hype, media sensationalism and the conspiracy theories that this famous murder generated, Nicole's story remains a real story of suffering and injustice...
"I just don't think that everyone goes through this..."