Richmond WEP ending VAWG

  Hello and thank you all for coming to join us this evening.   We meet here on the first Monday of every month to remember the UK women who have been killed by men, and to honour all of the women who have suffered from VAWG. This is the start of the fourth year of our vigils, and I was drawn to review things… We still use the information from the brilliant Karen Ingala-Smith’s website and Twitter account ‘Counting Dead Women’. We still do that because it is the only source we can find that collates the information.   A woman is killed by a man every three days and yet no government or police body has thought to look at these numbers separately to overall numbers.   Since our first vigil in September 2021, 318 women in the UK have been killed by men. Just about 9 every month, or one every 3 days. We stand here and talk about this every month, but I don’t think I’d stopped to think about how the numbers were adding up.   And we also need to remind ourselves every m

  Hello and thank you all for coming to join us this evening. We meet here on the first Monday of every month to remember the UK women who have been killed by men, and to honour all of the women who have suffered from VAWG. This is the 36 th time we have done this – we started 3 years ago in September. We haven’t all been to all of those vigils, but every month some of us have stood here and I am inordinately proud of all of us. But… more often than I’d like I question whether or not we should carry on, whether we are achieving anything, whether we are just wasting our time. And then I have an experience that makes me think that doing anything at all is better than doing nothing, because even the fact that we advertise the vigil raises some awareness is some dark corner… Let me share something that happened a few weeks ago. I was on my way to a meeting when I heard a report on the radio about 3 women being found dead in a house from crossbow injuries. The people I was

Welcome to our monthly VAWG vigil here in Twickenham Today I want to talk about change · Upcoming General election · The media now uses the term VAWG · The Guardian – prints a list of women who have died · Killed Women – relatives of these victims are campaigning for change They are wanting reviews of cases where women have fallen from a height to make sure it was not murder. · Jess Phillips MP – annually reads out those women who have been killed in the past year (though she is tired of this). · The White Ribbon movement that our Council has signed up to. We also need a change to society’s attitude to violence that it is no longer acceptable or inevitable behaviour and this means we need to address systemic change so that services that support all witnesses and victims that need protection automatically receive this. At Zara Aleena recent inquest there were multiple state failures that could have prevented her death if her killer had been properly supervised and communication had been

  Hello and welcome to our June vigil. We meet on the 1 st Monday of each month to highlight the issue of male violence against women and girls, and to honour the women killed by men.   Here’s a quick update on the direction of my rage this month… This newspaper headline "A grandad who killed his wife and then went to Costa Coffee for a cup of tea has been jailed for six years after being found guilty of manslaughter." Costa gets three further mentions during the article... is it just me or is that really not the point?   Stuart Robertson strangled his partner Dawn, 62, before placing a crucifix in her hands and boarding a bus to St Helens town centre and handing himself into the police. But first he paused 'for a cup of tea' at the coffee chain a jury heard during his trial at Liverpool Crown Court. The 69-year-old was unanimously cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter.   Sentencing, the Honorary Recorder of Liverpool Judge Andrew Men

Good evening, and thank you all for attending this monthly Vigil where we remember the women who have been murdered last month at the hands of men. Zhe Wang, 31, was stabbed to death in a house in Deptford, south-east London. Fellow student, Joshua Michals, 24, has been charged with murder. Pauline Sweeney, 50, was found stabbed to death at a property in Coventry. William Brady, 57, believed to have been her partner, has been charged with murder. Ursula Uhlemann, 80, was found dead at a property in Queenspark, London. A provisional cause of death is given as compression to the neck. Her partner, Steven Clark, 50, is charged with murder. Carol Matthews, 73, was found dead in a house in Staffordshire. Peter Matthews, 79, has been charged with murder. Tiffany Render, 34, was killed at a property in Whitehaven, Cumbria. Paul Irwin, 50, has been charged with murder and sexual assault. Ruth Baker, 48, was found at a property on Tempest Road, in Leeds. George Chalmers, 53, of Tempest Road, Le

  Ending Violence against women and girls: No more ‘table scraps’ - systemic change is needed Welcome. We are the women’s equality party and we are standing here tonight to honour the names of women and girls, all women and girls, everywhere, who have been subject to violence at the hands of men. We meet here usually with members of the Lib Dem councillors who have been running the ‘white ribbon campaign’ to remind us of the reality of violence against women and girls, and to do everything in our collective power to expose it and draw it to an end. Thank you for joining us, and if you were wandering past and wondered what we were doing here, then thank you for stopping and listening in. We’ve been meeting here by the Amelie de la Grange memorial bench for a couple of years now. Amelie, as you may recall, was a French exchange student walking home one night. She was murdered by a stranger, a man called Levi Bellfield who followed her across Twickenham Green and killed her. He did no