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Trigger warning: This article discusses distressing topics, including fatal domestic violence, abuse and suicide. Murderers who kill a partner or

London’s homicide rate is at a record low, with a decrease throughout the UK yet female homicide figures remain stagnant,

Warning: This article contains descriptions of the practices involved in female genital mutilation, which some readers may find upsetting. When

One in eight women experience abuse each year, according to 2025 data from the Metropolitan Police Service, which also exposes

Violence against women and girls in London has increased by 39% over the past decade, rising from 74,526 offences in

A vigil was held in Clapham Common bandstand to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Sarah Everard’s death. In the early

A recent surge in female knife possession shows women are increasingly choosing to carry weapons in public, while gender-based violence

Nearly 700 Met police officers and staff are still serving, but off front-lines, despite facing ‘live’ allegations of sexual misconduct

The number of female knife crime victims has surged in the last five years, despite the launch of the Mayor’s

Reports of sexual assault on the tube continue to overwhelmingly target women, according to recent data from the British Transport

Ellie was at Waterloo station when a man approached her and asked whether she liked threesomes. He continued loudly asking