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"Every two weeks, at least three women in the UK are killed by their (male) partner or ex-partner. Since lockdown began, that number has jumped to five women a week" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spent-25-years-working-cases-women-murdered-abusers-makes/
"These deaths do not happen in a vacuum. These are what I call “murders in slow motion” – the drip-drip-drip happens over time, on an escalating continuum."
"During lockdown, 29 women and four children have been brutally murdered. Their killers were not first-time offenders. No-one starts with murder".
"Women and girls are disproportionately abused, stalked and murdered. The perpetrators are mostly male, with violent and controlling histories of abuse. When women and girls report to police, they are often not believed".
"and still yet more families contact me almost daily asking for serial offenders to be managed so their daughter’s murder was not in vain".
"No amount of training has changed these systemic failures and women continue to be routinely disbelieved and disrespected when they report".
Lots of ppl reading this article, inc ppl from all over the world, sometimes from places where femicide rates are higher & where there are less services for abuse survivers. Any woman or child being murdered by the man they should be able to love & trust the most, is 1 too many.
