Men Who Kill

Documenting media reports of men who kill women yet blame the victim - or paint him as a sympathetic character rather than a man who chose to kill

[Men Who Kill @menwhokill]

In-depth analysis of how @TheSun commentary gives character references to violent men & blames female murder victims https://t.co/9fEGoV4RO6

[The Conversation @ConversationUK]

Blame the victim? Domestic violence as covered in The Sun and The Guardian https://t.co/brJt3uXWXB

[Lucy Pasha-Robinson @LucyPasha]

Rough sex doesn't kill women, male violence does. This is such an important piece from @HarrietHarman and @Mark4WyreForest challenging the "rough sex" defence for murder. https://t.co/O39NAE3KNj

[Men Who Kill @menwhokill]

Police officer quoted as saying a violent man who almost killed his partner in a 4hr attack "caused more harm than was necessary". Gemma Hudson was in a coma for 3 days with a brain bleed.

What level of harm is "necessary" in DV attacks @LancsPolice?
https://t.co/SPbDimUDcm

[Men Who Kill @menwhokill]

@lizzyvleeuwen @Jessicae13Eaton Jesus christ. That is horrendous. Imagine how her poor family must have felt reading that.

[Men Who Kill @menwhokill]

A 25 yr old man is on trial for the murder of a 13 year old child, Lucy McHugh.

Three appalling headlines from @BBCNews
Girl,13, 'murdered by secret lover'
Lucy McHugh, 13, 'murdered after secret sexual relationship'
Lucy McHugh, 13, 'murdered after pregnancy claim'

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

The fuck is wrong with BBC describing the murder of a child like this

[sianushka @sianushka]

Another woman dead in a "sex game gone wrong", another man convicted of manslaughter. She can't tell us because she's dead, women don't consent to being killed.

[Passie @__Passie__]

He tried to kill his girlfriend is what he was trying to do. The 'unborn child' was INSIDE HER.

[Level Up @we_level_up]

Seriously, if you work in a newsroom, take 1 minute today to read this:

[Men Who Kill @menwhokill]

@BaghdadCocaCola @ichthysaur The point is also that black men who are arrested for extremely minor offences have their mugshots printed while white men can annihilate their entire family and still get a family photo in an article on their appalling offences

[Men Who Kill @menwhokill]

So why print a picture of him with the family he murdered rather than a mugshot?
https://t.co/0MzvAovfpw

[The Mirror @DailyMirror]

Chris Watts’ horrific killings of wife and daughters still haunt investigators https://t.co/j1zbUXhvT7

[Men Who Kill @menwhokill]

@BaghdadCocaCola I'm surprised they managed to hold themselves back from printing the usual 'great Dad' and 'loving husband' comments

[Men Who Kill @menwhokill]

The person who ascribed these words to Fahima Yusuf is her fraudster husband Ahmed Seedat, who brutally attacked her as she slept. She can't refute them as she's dead. So why believe a murderer and print them?
https://t.co/OwI9EJB1bT

[Jackie Leonard @JackieLeonard01]

The murdered mother of the murdered boys, who doesn't get a mention in the headline, had been drugged and stabbed 60 times. She'd tried to defend herself as she was killed. https://t.co/3auneGw6Gg

[Level Up @we_level_up]

“What’s quite incredible is how so many articles frame domestic homicide as an event that came out of the blue, when actually there is a history of controlling behaviour"

We're in @StylistMagazine !

https://t.co/SPjEuC35aO

[Claire Moore @cctheatreco]

Hi @davey_huntley @DailyMirror PLEASE change this appalling headline Using the word ‘orgy’ to describe a woman’s brutal murder is sensationalist,disrespectful & trivialising #domesticviolence #dvmurders

[Victoria Derbyshire @VictoriaLIVE]

‘There seems to be a standard template of romanticising domestic homicide’

Janey Starling @we_level_up says inaccurate reporting doesn’t help identify others who may be at risk

Guidelines for journalists on reporting domestic violence-related murders are being published.

[Cara McGoogan @cjmcgoogan]

Cold blooded killers like Luke and Ryan Hart's father don't 'just snap' - @CoCoAwareness on new IPSO guidelines on reporting domestic violence https://t.co/At0wEmFGIg

[Men Who Kill @menwhokill]

@the63newts Have you seen the work @Wecantconsentto has done on this? They now have a list of 50 cases where men have claimed "sex game gone wrong" in the death of a woman or girl. It's heartbreaking and we have so far to go https://t.co/0kq9rR55Rl

[Men Who Kill @menwhokill]

Two leading UK press regulators, IPSO and IMPRESS, are to adopt @we_level_up guidelines to stop irresponsible reporting by the media on domestic violence murders
https://t.co/cAlZNgXpB0

[Level Up @we_level_up]

Thank you to all of the domestic violence experts, victims' families, criminologists and brilliant journalists who contributed to these guidelines.

Hopefully this is the end of:
🚫 'Jilted lover'
🚫 'Crime of passion'
🚫 "...kills woman after she ...."

https://t.co/ykLyJQJSeW