
Tormented Lives
Rosa Monckton, a disability rights campaigner and friend of the late Princess Diana, investigates hate crime against people with learning disabilities across Britain. She visits families who describe being besieged in their own homes, some driven out entirely by neighbors who target them for abuse, and hears how often police and local authorities fail to intervene even after repeated complaints. The film follows Christopher, a man with learning disabilities fighting to live independently despite ongoing harassment, as Monckton tries to help him build a case the authorities will actually act on. Rather than treating these as isolated incidents, the film lays out a pattern: victims report abuse, agencies log it, and nothing changes until someone is seriously hurt. Monckton uses her own access and public profile to press officials on camera about why the system keeps failing the people it exists to protect. The result is less an expose of individual villains than a record of institutional indifference, told through the people living with its consequences.