July 2023
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.
This is the 23rd time we have met now,
prompted by the murder of Sarah Everard on 3 March 2021. We hoped that the high
profile nature of that case would have prompted the press and politicians to
take this social epidemic seriously and try to shine a light on the root
causes. Sadly that hasn’t been the case.
We’ve been reading a new report that highlight the horrible
statistics in this area and also look at the roots causes and we’re hoping to
work with the author – Polly Newall – to raise awareness across the board.
The report repeats the dreadful statistic we know that 3
women a week are killed on average, but also looks at some of the details
behind that headline:
1 in 5 women in the UK have
been the victim of a sexual attack, 1 in 4 have been or are victims of domestic
abuse and 70% of the women killed were killed in their own home. The vast
majority of those killed are murdered by someone they know, trust, and love.
It also states that violence directed at women
and girls is a manifestation of
unequal power relations between men and women.
This is supported by numerous studies across the globe.
A global review of evidence conducted in 2016
found that violence directed at women and girls tends to be more common in
societies with high levels of gender inequality.
Many aspects of society in the UK are still
very much organised around the
principles of patriarchy where men hold most
of the power and where women are disadvantaged and denied equality with men.
Amongst other things, this sends the message that women are less
valuable or important than men and boys, whether in the home, in the
workplace, or in wider society
Here now Is the sad list of
women who have died since we last met -
2 June 2023: Michelle
Hodgkinson, 51, was walking in the Droylsden of Greater Manchester when she
was stabbed to death. A 28-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and
has since been detained under the Mental Health Act.
3 June 2023: Chloe Mitchell,
21, was last seen alive in Ballymena, County Antrim. Human remains were
found on the 11th of June and a murder investigation was launched. A
26-year-old man has been charged with murder. A second man has been charged
with assisting an offender.
9 June 2023: Chloe Bashford,
30, and her husband Josh, 33, were found dead at their home in Newhaven,
East Sussex. Derek Martin, also known as Derek Glenn, 64, has been charged with
two counts of murder.
13 June: Tejaswini Kontham,
27, was stabbed to death at a house in Wembley. Keven Antonio Lourenco De
Morais, 23, has been charged with murder and attempted murder of another woman.
13 June 2023: Grace
O’Malley-Kumar, 19, was stabbed to death during a series of attacks in
Nottingham city centre. Grace’s friend Barnaby Webber, 19, & Ian Coates,
65, were also killed. Valdo Calocane, 31, has been charged with multiple murder
& attempted murder of other victims
16 June 2023: Monika
Wlodarczyk, 35, and her children Maja, 11 & Dawid, 3, were found dead
in Hounslow. Husband/father Michal Wlodarczyk, 39, was also found dead. Police
are treating the death of Monika & her children as murder. They are not
looking for anyone else in connection
21 June 2023: Nelly Akomah,
76, was found dead at a residential property in Croydon. Hugo Da Silva
Pires, 28, has been charged with murder, burglary and fraud.
22 June 2023: Natasha Morais,
40, was found dead at an address in Whetstone, Leicestershire. A
27-year-old man was charged with murder.
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