Interesting. Extracts take up the remainder of this blog post:
A woman who killed her husband and hid his body in their garden has been jailed for life.
Maureen Rickards, 50, stabbed to death Jeremy Rickards, whom she was married to for 27 years…
Rickards was given a life sentence at Canterbury Crown Court on Wednesday and will serve a minimum of 22 years in jail…
Det Insp Colin McKeen from Kent Police said: “She has never expressed any remorse for what she did and has repeatedly sought to frustrate the investigation and push blame onto others, including the victim himself.”
CPS prosecutor James Fisher said Mr Rickards had been the victim of an “abusive relationship”, with “a pattern of historic abuse”.
“He was a regular drinker in a local pub and they noted he would regularly appear with marks on his face,” he said.
Philip Blunden, area lead on domestic abuse for the CPS, said it was a “misconception” that male victims were rare.
“One in three victims are male, but it is relatively rare to find female perpetrators, less than 10% of our prosecutions involve female perpetrators,” he said.
“Domestic abuse is generally under reported, but there is a particular under-reporting of male victims of domestic abuse.”
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Though it’s some years since I was involved with a small local charity supporting men it’s good to see that often “coal face” workers do recognise that men are abused and this is often hidden and underreported. In our case there was support from Police officers and housing officers and even a local women said. The opposition came from “policy” people at Police HQ and the office of the Police and Crime Commissioner. The same is true of the national scene. Feminists are clever in that they target and colonise key decision making bodies, which then in “top down” actions ( usually controlling grants and funding routes) eliminate or stunt organisations who then rely on charitable giving. The good news , I think, is that what needs to change is actually not great swathes of people, but those at the top politically and in “policy units”. Many police forces have run awareness campaigns and it is indicative that these have been the smaller “County” forces rather than the big metropolitan forces( eg South Yorkshire, Merseyside, West Yorkshire etc) as the County forces don’t have the capacity for whole “policy units” with teams working on all the “woke” areas.
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but it is relatively rare to find female perpetrators, less than 10% of our prosecutions involve female perpetrators,” he said.
Im going to call BS on this.
its not rare for female perpetrators, its just rare that they are prosecuted( and sometimes even reported)
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Absolutely right, as confirmed by the section on sexual abuse in our final manifesto https://j4mb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/c8af6-221128-j4mb-manifesto-3.pdf
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