[Liam-]

In this day and age it’s very common to record incidents where you think evidence might be needed, there’s nothing wrong with recording noises you can hear in your own property, just think, if he had been beating her, then there would have been suitable evidence to back it up,.

Could it be an innocent row being used by militants to smear someone? Possibly.
Could it be a high ranking politician using his power and influence in the media to discredit people that could expose his abusive, aggressive ways? Possibly.

He clearly has some influence seeing as the police lied and said there were no incidents at that address, until they were confronted with all the details and had no choice but to confirm it.