Driven to Death? - Domestic Abuse: "A National Emergency"
4/28/202641 min
In this episode the scale of domestic violence is exposed as Caroline sits down with Louisa Rolfe, the Assistant Chief Constable of the Met Police. New figures released today show teenage girls are increasingly being abused by partners and the numbers of women who take their lives due to domestic abuse now far exceeds those who are killed by a violent partner. Jess Philips, the Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls today said the figures demonstrate a "National Emergency". We also have an interview with Chris Trybus, who was last week cleared of the manslaughter, rape and coercive control of his wife.
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Welcome to The Trial UK, Driven to Death. I'm Caroline Cheatham. Today, a special episode of the podcast featuring the assistant chief constable from the Met. That is Louisa Rolfe. She's also the policing lead for domestic abuse, and she talks to me today at length about the scale of domestic violence in England and Wales based on a new report from the Domestic Homicide Project. In that report, which is released today, it's estimated the number of suicides as a result of domestic abuse is now almost double the numbers who are killed by an abusive partner. That's an increase of around 50% on the previous year. The report also estimates that 1 in 12, the vast majority of those are women, now suffer from domestic abuse, and around 1 in 20, the vast majority of these are men, are abusers. Shockingly, the report also finds that teenage girls are the fastest growing group suffering from domestic abuse. And in our conversation today, ACC Rolfe calls out the social media companies for allowing a generation of young men to access horrific online content, which she says leads to a toxic culture which now puts young women at risk.