Firstly - as someone who lost someone close to suicide I take offence at you referring to their actions as ‘The Ultimate Act of Selfishness’. They were sick. Mental illness is a just that - a sickness. You can’t be responsible for your actions if you are mentally ill. Well people do not commit suicide.
As for Lewis... It’s my opinion that he was coercing/gaslighting Caroline and it comes from the information recorded her inquest. It doesn’t need to be reported but it is in the press. His behaviour on the evening and following the attack is what makes me question if he was mentally abusing her. She was mentally vulnerable having threatened suicide and he was aware of that.
1) He was texting ex girlfriends behind her back.
2) He threatened her with ruin on the night if the attack - “You’re Fucked Now” (Why not just call the police?)
3) He leaked photos of that night knowing she was in a mentally vulnerable state and suicidal having just cut her wrists.
Finally - if you really want to split hairs - she was never found guilty of hitting him. Therefor is innocent. She didn’t have the opportunity to defend her actions in court. Perhaps she admitted hitting him in the midst of trauma and in the cold light of day realised she had a legal defence for hitting him.
1) Who said he was texting girlfriends behind her back? If you mean EXgirlfriends then why not? I'm still friends with exes and would certainly text them if I wanted to ask them about something or wish them happy birthday. Must he ghost exes in case Caroline threw a wobbler?
2) Of course he threatened her on the night because he knew she'd gone too far, and I bet he called her a few cunty names too, because she cracked his skull open with a lamp(or whatever). What he didnt do was hit her like she had hit him. He had more control of himself despite being battered awake by his head getting battered.
3)He didn't "leak photos". He sent them to a friend which is what DV experts advise victims to do before any evidence gets cleared away. If the friend leaked them then that's on her, not him.
I see no evidence of gaslighting or mental abuse in anything he did.
To be clear, I never liked him and thought him a publicity
bleep but that doesn't make him some sort of Svengali who manipulated a poor little innocent friendless waif. They used each other and it ended badly but it isn't his fault