Posted on 02/21/2024 2:35:15 PM PST by RandFan
Every now and then, an appalling act of male violence against a woman hits the headlines.
Sarah Everard, Sabina Nessa, Julia James, Zara Aleena.
Women murdered by strangers in unprovoked attacks. They shatter families, make us all shudder and occasionally they prompt politicians to act.
But statistically such attacks, mercifully, are relatively rare.
Extreme male violence against women is much more likely to happen in the place they should feel safest: their own homes. And the perpetrators are likely to be a current or former partner.
Every week - stop and think about this - every single week, two women in England and Wales are killed in these circumstances.
And here is another fact which may shock you - which you might not be aware of.
If a woman is stabbed to death in the street by a stranger, the starting point for sentencing is 25 years.
If the same woman is stabbed to death with a kitchen knife in her own home - the starting point for sentencing is 15 years.
It’s a disparity which has prompted a growing campaign for change, and on which the government has been running a public consultation which closes on March 4.
I meet three mothers united in the worst possible circumstances. As we gather in a kitchen around cups of tea, Elaine Newborough, Julie Devey and Carole Gould tell me about their beautiful young daughters: Megan, Poppy and Ellie. Daughters with everything to live for, until each was murdered by their partners or ex-partners in the most savage knife attacks imaginable. Ellie was just 17.
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I wonder what Freeper legal eagles make of this one?
“It led to a decision to raise the sentencing level for murder with a knife taken to a scene with intent - to a minimum tariff of 25 years.”
Carrying a knife on the street shows more intent than grabbing an available knife in a home.
The law is trying to cater for the woman who has had enough and stabs her abuser (at home)
Easy way out of this is to just let judges decide but politicians ....
It is women shacking up or with short term hookups, who are in the most danger.
The article uses the euphemistic term "partner" and in "her own home" to obfuscate this fact.
I doubt it.
You can bet the author of the article looked hard to find examples.
If they’re out there looking for a partner to share their abode with... and they haven’t really applied a good measure of due diligence to their choice how can they defend that?
That’s stupidity in action. Males do the same thing!
I would bet most were murdered by 3rd world invader savages, but the media and the women blame “men” trying to further break apart traditional Christian families by feeding animosity between men and women, when in fact the 3rd world invasion is to blame, not “men”.
My guess would be is that the in-home act is out of passion (old time law) and the outside act is an act of aggression?
These kinds of stories I see on true crime shows more often than not are white women killed by black husbands or boyfriends. Just sayin’.
Exactly.
In one case, the killer was one year older than the victim. Yet he was the partner of the mother? Wouldn’t be surprised he has raped the daughter many times and the daughter told him she was gonna’ snitch.
Killers were “partners” or “expartners”... that’s the ticket..bring a partner into your house with a young daughter..
Amazing...penalties are a couple of decades in prison...when the penalty should be death....boy...life is cheap in merry ol’ Englandistan.
Don’t tell Goolag AI that!
UK has been using "partner" to be politically correct for the past 15 years or so. Their media don't want to distinguish between married couples vs those who are just hooking up or cohabiting without marriage, or straight vs gay relationships. You only see "husband" or "wife" in rare instances, such as directly quoting someone, or when the media outlet wants to promote gay marriage (i.e. "his husband', "her wife").
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