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Think I'd crumble? You think I'd lay down and die? No, not I ….

[Killed Women @KilledWomennw]

BBC Documentaries has announced three brand new powerful documentaries from Stacey Dooley, each looking at timely issues facing the UK today.
https://t.co/yQtp2rvMo2

'"Fallen Women" sees Stacey look into a series of cases involving British women who died following falls from height, asking whether patterns of domestic abuse may have been overlooked in some of these deaths.

'The film begins with the story of Bianca Thomas, a young mother from Birmingham whose death after falling from an 11th-floor balcony was ruled accidental. Stacey meets Bianca’s family [including her sister, Killed Women co-founder Jhiselle Feanny] and friends who are unhappy with the verdict and who still have questions about the circumstances of her death.

Women are more likely than men to die in suspicious circumstances in falls from height. Through intimate interviews with bereaved families, experts, campaigners and law enforcement, the documentary explores the challenges police face investigating these cases, and the growing campaign for “Bee’s Law”, which would encourage such scenes to be treated more consistently as potential crime scenes.

Taking Stacey into a little understood and deeply troubling world, this powerful film examines grief, justice and the difficult questions surrounding women who die after falling from height in the context of abusive relationships.'

[GH @ghinit]

@PrfAyebKarlsson It most certainly is

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https://t.co/7v2j2uaG9R

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@DavidLammy @UKLabour Thank you 🙏

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

3.5 million unmarried couples living together in the UK stand to gain stronger protections under Labour.

Too many couples have limited rights if their relationship ends or their partner dies - even after years together or raising children.

Labour is consulting on reforms to improve financial security, strengthen protections for survivors of domestic abuse and create a fairer system that reflects modern relationships.

[Right to Equality @Right2Equality]

(2/2) Right to Equality demands accountability for judges who fail child victims. This is a systemic failure, and we will not stay silent while the justice system values perpetrators over survivors.

https://t.co/JZJJI31gES

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@BarnettAdrienne @thesilencedmum Hope you are ok Adrienne

[Dr Adrienne Barnett @BarnettAdrienne]

I’m on a train reading about a post about women being harassed when a man just walked past and accosted me. What the heck? This is by no means the first time this has happened. Men, just leave women alone!

[GH @ghinit]

https://t.co/iA5mPKlnfj

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Fantastic to see progress on this issue from @DavidLammy @sarahsackman @Jess4Lowestoft. I hope there is opportunity for survivors with lived experience to contribute to the consultation? https://t.co/bhFr9EB1UQ

[Family Law News @familylaw]

https://t.co/0XryrN5imw

[Natalie Page @NataliePage]

They took your fear and used it against you.
When you felt anxious about your child being with their abusive father, the family court didn’t see a mother protecting her child.
They saw “anxiety.”
They saw “hostility.”
They saw “alienation.”
When your child showed fear, when they cried, froze, or begged not to go, the system didn’t investigate why.
It investigated YOU.
Your trauma responses and your child’s trauma responses were twisted into evidence that you were the danger.
This is how the weaponised system works.
It doesn’t just ignore abuse.
It punishes you for reacting to it.
The System Is The Weapon names this cruel reality so clearly.
You were never the problem for being afraid.
You were never the problem for wanting your child to be safe.

https://t.co/13rr9J86h2

[Dr Karen Mitchell PhD @karenmitchell__]

It’s time to start calling out “experts” who make inaccurate statements about narcissists & psychopaths (human predators).
Accuracy matters!! Predators are dangerous, harmful and hard to “see”.
We simply must educate accurately to give us the best chance of preventing harm and holding them to account.

I’ve done the deepest, most comprehensive study ever undertaken of our global knowledge on those who harm without remorse & I can see there are ALOT of “experts” on social media making ALOT of inaccurate comments.

This is not OK.
Time to start correcting the false narratives.

This woman has 332,000 followers on Instagram. Her comment here is of course inaccurate.
Many narcissists are in long-term jobs, & have successful careers. They are better placed to harm people & get away with it because they have such a convincing façade as a doctor or psychologist or lawyer or judge or manager…

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

"Workers". "People". "Employees". BBC only mentions in the VERY last paragraph that, actually, women (half of people) have half the pension savings as men.

You'd think that might be a newsworthy angle, a relevant framing, but you'd be wrong.
https://t.co/nIAwJMdTBN

[Laura Richards BSc MSc MBPsS @thecrimeanalyst]

Michaela Hall: Another horrific murder in slow motion. The pattern is always the same. Another woman failed. Misogyny plays a role. How many more women will be murdered by controlling and violent men with significant histories?

Devon and Cornwall Police received 34 pieces of intelligence about Lee Kendall’s abuse. He had almost 50 convictions relating to 100 offences. He strangled Michaela. This is a high risk factor to femicide. She was a high risk victim. He was assessed as medium risk by Probation and released. That’s a flawed assessment. He was HIGH risk.

The police attended another call out to the address. The male police officer said over the radio, ‘What can you do if she don’t help herself?’ Michaela was murdered the next day, May 31 2021. Kendall grabbed her by the throat and stabbed her in the head.

My advice: Start by doing your damn job. Investigate and arrest serial and violent men. Join up their violent histories.

For many years I’ve campaigned for this alongside victims and families for a national register for domestic abusers and stalkers.
✅ SIGN the petition:
https://t.co/ah3Tk1U5Ay

They are intimate partner terrorists who destroy lives and their histories must be joined up and future victims warned. For too long there has been ZERO consequence for these bullies. It’s the same story over and over again.

It’s time to change that ☠️

I stand in solidarity with Michaela’s family. Kudos to them for being Michaela’s voice and demanding accountability

#MichaelaHall #SerialPerpetrator #DomesticAbusers #Stalker #Femicide #FemicidePrevention #CoerciveControl #Risk #Danger #RegisterNeeded @laurarichards99

[victoria @DollyScoobs]

#holdalljudgestoaccount

I protested outside every Crown court in England in 2024 because I couldn’t believe that judge’s have little or no accountability for their case management.

My daughter was left suicidal after her RASSO trial because the judge made many errors.

I could have lost her.

We trusted the system which we know now is not fit for purpose.

Recent cases have generated significant public concern and has only reinforced my view that accountability matters.

No one should want to kill themselves after a trial. No one.

Those girls were so brave to report being raped and yet they heard Judge Rowland praise the behaviour of the rapists.

Yes, the Attorney General has agreed an appeal is going ahead but I haven’t heard anyone demand that Judge Rowland explain his comments.

I hope Judge Lancaster has to explain why he said what he did.

No public office, however important, should be beyond scrutiny.

[Right to Equality @Right2Equality]

(1/5) Judge Alexander Menary called a sexual assaulter hard working and handed him a suspended sentence. The victim was left a shell of herself.

[Jess Asato MP @Jess4Lowestoft]

It’s good to see the Judicial College embracing more transparency and also providing clearer training for judges on domestic abuse.

https://t.co/Xg6CbMJBu3

[GH @ghinit]

Great news for social tenants but isn’t it time victims are afforded similar protections in the private rental sector? @sarahsackman @Jess4Lowestoft @Keir_Starmer @jessphillips
https://t.co/0An8ZHSCvI?

[Dr Adrienne Barnett @BarnettAdrienne]

New article published by Cote, Lapierre and McGinn on the overlooked consequences of domestic abuse perpetrator programmes. (Institutional access required for full article)

This exploratory study is important reading for family courts and policy makers. My own experience from practice at the Bar was that some perpetrators learned to 'talk the talk' rather than 'walk the walk'

https://t.co/KMgUed7iBx