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Bianchi alleged his confession and guilty pleas were coerced by “hypnotic manipulation” and that the facts of his confession did not match the physical evidence.

She said she was coerced to perform even when she had UTIs, had just thrown up, and once after he had choked and assaulted her.

Under pressure, they are coerced into recruiting others, deceiving even their own families and friends, Ms Donkor said.

In Mussolini’s Italy, intellectuals were coerced into swearing loyalty to the fascist state, and scholarship became a tool of nationalist propaganda, intertwining classical myths with imperial ambition.

Critics of the bill, including some in the Lords, say it could see disabled and vulnerable people coerced into ending their lives.