Our thanks to mf for this:

He writes:

“Kent Police Real Time Suicide Surveillance Data show more suicide in male victims than female victims of Domestic Abuse.

The conclusion was just under a third of (suspected) suicides are domestic abuse linked (32%), about 1800 annually in England if this data is representative. 

Slide 9 is the relevant one. 

If one accepts a person can be both a victim and perpetrator as found by PASK , and in this data, the results would appear to suggest about 63% of domestic abuse linked victim suicides are male. 

(By adding the numbers of men in the victim only and victim and perpetrator categories, and comparing to the total for those categories).

Sadly, the gender split did not find its way into the final report, which adopts the Duluth framework. 

The gender split may be yet more skewed if male victim domestic abuse is more under-reported than female . Slide 10 makes the point 32% could be an underestimate of the proportion of suicides which are domestic abuse linked.”

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