Fifty+ Femicides
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For the past 17 weeks I have written this article remembering the women killed after their 50th birthday by men they were personally connected to.
Husbands, sons, brothers, partners, former partners, grandsons.
These 17 articles span between 2014 and 2019. They do not tell the story of every victim.
The method in which the data is published changed in 2020.
This is now published by the annual femicide report, which includes women killed by men they are not personally connected to and the ages of those women are now categorised differently.
I will conclude this series by highlighting some of the key themes for those women who were killed in mid and later life in the current published reports from 2020 and 2021.
Behind every number, is a woman whose loss and suffering for her and those who loved her, will be immeasurable.
2020
2021
Every woman killed by a man is named in the full reports. For every woman named, there will be many we don't know about, many who's cause of death will be inaccurate or unknown.
*‘Overkilling’ is defined as the use of excessive, gratuitous violence beyond that necessary to cause the victim’s death
*Information has been taken from Femicide Census 2020 and Femicide Census 2021
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1 周Unfortunately this article does not shock me, working in this field for decades. Also, as many incedents are not reported as femicide, causes of death are obfuscated and not found to be murder, these numbers stated are likely to be higher.
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1 周Preventable deaths!
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2 周Thank you for sharing these stories and honouring these women Carrie Bower I know reading the research and writing this also will have been deeply felt by you and you courageously kept writing ???? ?? because we still don’t officially acknowledge those who took their life because of abuse and retraumatisation navigating the CPS and a society that at large doesn’t believe you and those who do don’t have the funding and capacity to support every being who needs them ????
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2 周As always thank you for sharing
Thank you for sharing and raising awareness. The figures for completed suicide by women due to domestic violence added to these is also both shocking and very upsetting.