Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core

2026-02-15 - 21:25

Exclusive: Research suggests official statistics could track as few as 10% of the true number of cases Katie’s story: her abusive ex-partner said ‘kill yourself’. When she did, police dropped domestic violence inquiry The number of women who are driven to suicide by domestic abusers is being under-reported, and their cases overlooked by police, in what has been described by experts as a “national scandal”. Domestic violence suicides are already growing at such a rate that a woman in an abusive relationship is now more likely to take her own life than be killed by a partner. Continue reading...