‘I wanted a better life but I didn’t want it to come this way’

Tamika Miller’s new home.

By Roger Wong

“I wanted a better life but I didn’t want it to come this way,” were the words of Tamika Miller just before she received the keys to her new house, as she remembered a year ago when she survived being stabbed 27 times by her enraged husband just after she ended their relationship.

Although the physical wounds have healed, the 27 scars on Miller’s body are a permanent reminder that her life was miraculously