In half the cases, perpetrators had previous histories of violence against the victim or other women, with three men found to have killed before.
Overkilling – defined as the use of excessive, gratuitous violence beyond that necessary to cause the victim’s death – was evident in 56% of cases.
Read the full article by Laith Al-Khalaf and Alexandra Topping on the Guardian website
House of Commons – 5 March 2020 – Jess Phillips MP reads out the names of UK women killed by men in the year since last year’s International Women’s Day.
Susan Dalgety looks at the Femicide Census and men’s violence against women and questions the priorities of some of those seeking to lead the Labour Party.
Julie Bindel questions why, despite 50 years of feminist campaigning, men get away with killing women
Rhiannon Evans interviews Karen Ingala Smith for Grazia
Maya Oppenheim covers the Femicide Census Report on 149 femicides in the UK in 2018.
Julie Bindel writes for The Guardian about the findings of the 2018 Femicide Census.
The Femicide Census is a unique source of comprehensive information about women who have been killed in the UK and the men who have killed them.