Sad. An interesting and detailed article, well worth reading in full. Extracts takes up the remainder of this piece:
“A review into the death of a 27-year-old man who took his own life after suffering sustained domestic abuse at the hands of his partner has highlighted concerns that not enough is done to help male victims.
In the report, his family claim he was “treated differently” by agencies intended to help people suffering from domestic abuse because he was a man and that police often took his partner’s side, as she was a woman…
The report recounts how, in March 2023, Val [J4MB: a pseudonym for the dead man, in the report] texted a relative and Kim in the early hours, sending them a video of himself indicating he was going to end his life.
He ended the messages with “goodbye”.
Police officers forced their way into his King’s Lynn home, and found the man sat opposite the front door. Despite the efforts of the emergency services, he could not be revived.
An inquest into his death was held at Norfolk Coroner’s Court last August.
Assistant coroner Christopher Leach did not give a verdict of suicide after toxicology analysis showed the combination of recreational cocaine and alcohol found in Val’s system would have increased risk taking behaviour.
Instead, he recorded a narrative conclusion, stating Val had died “having applied a ligature to his own neck, his intentions when doing so being unknown”. [J4MB emphasis. I refer you to the first sentence in this extract. The man sent a video of himself to his partner and a relative “indicating he was going to end his life”.]
Justice for Men & Boys 
Unlit we do not have the VAWG Strategy in Government we will continue to see this. Despite people “on the coal face” often individually seeing the reality. They are constrained by strategy and guidance to behave in a “gendered” paradigm. The VAWG Strategy pervades all public activity, from funding research to HSE education in schools to the “Bench Book” for Courts to even the data collected (male victims rendered invisible). Those Police and others who do try to support men and boys do so swimming against a real river that claims males cannot be a victim.
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Last week my wife was taken into hospital following a fall. Before the ambulance arrived we had a phone call from a nurse or possibly a doctor asking to speak to my wife . She was asked several questions one of which was “Has your husband been violent towards you ? ” A malicious or resentful spouse could of course have lied and answered “yes” so I do wonder about the ethics of effectively suggesting that such a thing had happened on the basis of no evidence whatsoever. But it just goes to exemplify the underlying antipathy towards men.
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Thanks John, I’ll put this in a post.
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