Over the last ten years on average two women have been killed by their male partners or former partners each week.

The first Femicide Census report for 2016 was published recently.

It revealed that 113 women were killed by men in England, Wales and Northern Ireland between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2016.

It also revealed that nine in ten of the women killed during 2016 were killed by someone they knew; 78 women were killed by their current or former intimate partner and 65 of that 78 were killed in their own home or the home they shared with the perpetrator.