There’s a striking line in the latest Angiolini Inquiry report: the government should consider a wider Good Samaritan (or “duty to act”) law as part of a package to prevent sexually motivated attacks in public. The recommendation, which includes a timetable for ministers to look at the case by July 2026, has reignited a heated…
The Angiolini Inquiry’s new Part 2 First Report, published on 2 December, is a stark reminder of a truth women already know in their bones: public spaces still don’t belong to us. Four years after the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Metropolitan Police officer, this report asks a deceptively simple…
On average, a woman is killed every three days and that nearly 900 women were victims of domestic homicide over the last ten years, most killed by a current or former partner. This International Women’s Day, the UK government has restated their target of halving violence against women and girls in the UK within the…