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 Hi All, thank you for coming to this evening’s Vigil where each month we name, remember & pay our respects to the victims who have been murdered by the hands of men. This list is updated by Karen Ingala Smith, usually each month but I have a longer number of names tonight as the list has had some names missing from previous months: 6 September 2024: Barbara Nomakhosi, 35, was found dead with multiple injuries at a property in Bury. A man in his 40s, the only suspect in her death, died in a Collison with a lorry and a pedestrian in the M65. Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with her death. 29 September 2024: An unnamed woman in her 70s was found with injuries at an address in Birmingham. She was taken to hospital but died of her injuries. Her son, Surjit Kaulam, 38, is charged with murder. 1 October 2024: Mary Ward, 22, was found dead at her home in Melrose Street, South Belfast. Ahmed Abdirahman, 31, has been charged with her murder. 5 October 2024: Christin...

Thank you all for coming to tonight’s Vigil, where each month pay our respects to the victims of Violence against Women and Girls.   I’d like to start by acknowledging the installation of the lighting on the path across Twickenham Green. I’m sure you remember we worked with Councilor Rhi Lee to encourage this action on the 20 th anniversary of the murder of Amelie Delagrange here. A Council press release says that “Following long-standing community requests for better lighting after  Amelie Delagrange's murder , we have commenced the installation of solar-powered LED lights on Twickenham Green. While lighting was not initially recommended as an effective safety proposal, advancements in technology have now meant the Metropolitan Police support it as a viable measure to improve personal safety and confidence when crossing the green.   The new lights will use motion and daylight sensors, dimming during quiet hours and brightening when movement is detected, ...

Thank you all for coming to tonight’s Vigil where each month we name, remember & pay our respects to the victims of Violence against Women & Girls. This list is updated each month by Karen Ingala Smith SINCE THE LAST VIGIL THE FOLLOWING 11 DEATHS HAVE BEEN REPORTED: Zanele Sibanda, 28, was stabbed to death in Tredworth, Gloucester. Tanaka Zivania, 32 has been charged with murder. Bryonie Gawith, 29, died with her three children, Denisty, 9, Oscar, 5, and Aubree, 22 months. They died at a house fire at their home in Bradford. Mohammed Shabir, 44 and Calum Sunderland, 25, have been charged with their murders and an additonal attempted murder Barbara Nomakhos, 35, was found dead with multiple injuries at a property in Bury. A man in his 40s, the only suspect in her death, died in a collision with a lorry and a pedestrian in the M65. Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with her death. Khasha Smith, was last seen alive on a video call. Her body has not been found. A...

  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 ...

  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 ...

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...