A grieving mother who was brutally assaulted by her former partner - who then kidnapped and murdered her baby boy - has finally received an apology and pardon from the West Australian government, almost a decade after "enduring the unthinkable".
Instead of being treated as a victim of domestic violence by police, Tamica Mullaley was arrested in March 2013 after a sustained beating at the hands of Mervyn Bell who left her naked and bleeding on a Broome street.
