‘A national travesty’: Domestic abuse rises 24% as number of cases passed for charge falls 11%
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‘Domestic abuse is such a devastating crime, the women who experience it lose everything: their home, their freedom, their dignity and ultimately their lives.’
By Maya Oppenheim, Women’s Correspondent
Domestic abuse has risen by 24 per cent in a year while referrals of cases from the police to the Crown Prosecution Service fell by 11 per cent.
New figures show police recorded an average of one incident of domestic abuse per minute in the year ending March 2019.
Some 746,219 domestic abuse-related crimes were recorded in total – a rise of almost a quarter on the previous year.
A charity working with victims of domestic abuse described the rising trends as a ‘national travesty’.
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