August 2024
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