Our thanks to Nigel for this from the Men’s Alliance, Northern Ireland. From the Executive Summary:

“On homicides alone, PSNI [J4MB: Police Service, Northern Ireland] data shows that 41 percent of domestic homicide victims are men. These deaths receive little public or policy attention. Once suicides are included, the scale of male mortality becomes clearer. Men account for around 75 to 80 percent of all suicides in Northern Ireland. Applying conservative estimates from national research indicates that hundreds of these deaths over the last two decades are linked to domestic abuse, coercive control, false allegations, and loss of contact with children. Northern Ireland does not currently record domestic abuse involvement in suicide data, leaving a major part of the harm invisible.”

Nigel writes:

“As far as I know this, just out, is the only research that looks at the impact of the domestic abuse of men in a holistic way. Linking the high male suicide rate with the various ways in which abusive partners, official bodies, courts and Police end up creating a web that ensnares men in a Kafkaesque web. Well worth reading for anyone concerned about abuse of men.”

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