A detective garda who brutally assaulted his wife in front of their young children walked free from court without a custodial sentence, raising serious concerns about justice.
Don't know what to do right now. Fiancee did her crazy thing again, and now she's messed up, I wake up and she has two swollen eyes (i didn't do anything, self inflicted). She stabbed herself, slit her eye? Idk but she isn't waking up or responding, what do I do?
Helena describes violence against women as an 'epidemic'. Ministers have described a 'national emergency' and the UK government has pledged to halve violence against women and girls within a decade. To get a deeper, more human understanding of the situation, we tracked news reports throughout 2025 from across the UK of women or girls who had been potentially killed by men or boys.
Economic abuse, a pervasive form of coercive control, is linked to the death of a victim every three weeks across England and Wales, new analysis reveals. The charity Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA) described the findings as a 'wake-up call', emphasising that this type of abuse 'is not just a money problem' but a significant danger.