The Home Office has launched its consultation on the updated DHR stat. guidance. This doc is crucial to the DHR process. If you work in this area, please consider a submission. This is the first revision since 2016 & a real opportunity to help shape it.

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Update Alert! Our campaign has raised awareness about domestic-related suicide and gained support from politicians and organizations. We are launching the second phase soon and need your help. Let's continue making a difference. #hernamewaschloeholland #EndCoerciveControl

Saying “Just a domestic” should be gross misconduct spectator.co.uk/article/the-me…

We're nearing our petition goal, just 2,000 signatures away! If you've already signed, please share it with your friends and family to help Melanie Janine Brown MBE achieve a safer family court system. ow.ly/9w7450RlltQ ➡️

Join us in shaping the future of tackling Honour Based Abuse! Take the @HomeOffice Survey now. A definition is crucial for identifying cases, supporting victims, and informing policies. Check out our guide for help – karmanirvana.org.uk/news-item/guid… #HonourBasedAbuse #Push4Change

We're proud to collaborate with the research team behind 'Learning Legacies: An Analysis of Domestic Homicide Reviews in Cases of Domestic Abuse Suicide'
Today the report team launch a series of practical resources aafda.org.uk/learning-legac…

🖊️Today is your last chance to sign the petition to make manslaughter by coercive or controlling behaviour a statutory offence.

📢Please sign and share >>> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6489…

#HerNameWasChloeHolland sharon Holland

Killed Woman, Salford, November 2023: The ex-partner who killed Perseverance in front of her two children after she broke up with him has been jailed for life, with a minimum of 27 years. He changed his plea to guilty on the first day of his trial. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Man tried to smother dying mother, 92, in act of ‘unadulterated love’, jury told
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a… Jean Hatchet Prof Jane Monckton Smith OBE DV Murders Bridie Anderson (Not a murder charge but flagging CountingDeadWomen as he may have been arrested for murder)

Jessica Laverack died by suicide in 2018, but in a landmark case the coroner ruled that the cause was 'domestic abuse'. Her mum Phyllis is supporting Sharon Holland in her call for there to be a new offence of “manslaughter by coercive control”. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/m…

Killed Woman, Malton: The family of Lisa, who died after being pulled from a river in North Yorkshire on 24th April, have paid tribute to a 'wonderful daughter, mum, auntie and little sister' as a man appeared in court charged with murder. yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/fam…

We're supporting Sharon Holland's campaign to make manslaughter by coercive or controlling behaviour a statutory offence.

The petition closes❗️this Wednesday❗️so please sign and share today 👇👇👇
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6489……

#HerNameWasChloeHolland sharon Holland

What an horrific offence strangulation is. It is extreme and intimate control, eyes to eyes mostly. How utterly nauseating. Institute For Addressing Strangulation DHR Network Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse Laura Farris MP Robert Buckland Yvonne Roberts Jo at AAFDA

A report released today has shown the scale of domestic homicides in England and Wales, and for the first time has recorded an increase in suspected suicides by domestic abuse victims.

Click here to read more: news.npcc.police.uk/releases/repor…

Woman Killed, Stoke-on-Trent: A man and woman in their 70s were found dead in a house in Stoke-on-Trent last week, prompting a murder inquiry. Officers were confident there was 'no wider threat or risk to the community'. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

“Judges need training, urgently – and not training they have written themselves – but expert domestic abuse training from charities who work with survivors… No survivor of abuse should be frightened that a judge will back an abuser & put her & her children in danger.”
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Killed Woman, Newmarket, November 2023: A man who beat his wife to death in their home with a skateboard has admitted murder in a late plea. Taiwo suffered 'catastrophic injuries'. Three officers are being investigated for misconduct over the case. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Woman Killed, Waterlooville: An 87-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of an 82-year-old woman, who was found dead in her own home on Monday. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

TW - suicide.

The invisible victims of femicide are those who have died by suicide following domestic abuse.

In France, thanks to Yael Mellul 🇫🇷🎗️, we have now criminalised 'forced suicide'.

But we do not systematically open inquiries following a suicide, and we need to.

So many men accused of domestic abuse try to assert that it is actually they who are the victims, when it's actually part of their abuse.

Man who raped his wife tried to convince court he was victim of domestic abuse
theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/2…