Good morning. The first was Keotshepile Naso Isaacs, a 33-year-old mother of three said by friends to be a “beautiful soul”, who was found dead at a property in North Berwick, Scotland on New Year’s Day. Since then, in a project called , the Guardian has been tracking cases this year in which a woman has been killed and a man charged with her murder.
The most recent is Courtney Mitchell, a 26-year-old with three children who was described as “courageous and full of spirit”, found with stab wounds to her chest at an address in Ipswich. Her death brings the count this year to 50. In recent years, a woman has been killed by a man in the UK every three days.
Campaigns such as Counting Dead Women, the Femicide Census and Killed Women have been highlighting the toll of men’s violence against women for years – but with violence against women described recently by police as a “national emergency”, the numbers remain stubbornly high. For today’s newsletter, I spoke to Alexandra Topping, the lead reporter on Killed Women Count, about why that is, and what needs to happen to change it. Here are the headlines.
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