Throughout 2024, the Guardian aims to report on every woman allegedly killed by a man, drawing on the work of campaigns such as Counting Dead Women, the Femicide Census and Killed Women. In recent years in the UK, a woman has been killed by a man every three days on average, yet most of their stories have gone unheard. The Guardian wants to help change that.
This year, the toll of women whose deaths have led to a man being charged has now reached 50. Here, we mark each of their lives. None of these incidents are linked in any way other than that a woman has been killed and a man charged with her murder.
Beaming as she looks into the camera, Courtney Mitchell’s “contagious smile” – as described by her family – is there for all to see. She was a woman whose kindness had no limits, they said. “Courtney was very intelligent and could read any room, she was extremely funny and was the life and soul of any gathering.
Courtney touched the lives of so many with her warmth and generosity, she was courageous and full of spirit and had a unique ability to make others feel valued and loved.” Shortly after 7pm on 6 August, Mitchell, who had three children, was found with stab wounds to the chest at an address in Ipswich. She later died in hospital.
Logan Burnett, 27, has been charged with murder. It was 3am on the morning of 30 July when paramedics were called to a house in Somerset. Inside they found 29-year-old Olivia Wood with serious injuries.
Wood, of Northwich, Cheshir.