Women’s Aid raises alarm as police receive more than 5,200 reports over 108 days

Sonya McMullan of Women’s Aid (Photo by Kevin Cooper/Photoline)

Sonya McMullan of Women’s Aid (Photo by Kevin Cooper/Photoline)

Domestic abusers routinely use local women’s violent deaths to intimidate their partners, Women’s Aid NI has warned.

This shocking revelation came as a Freedom of Information request showed the police received 5,284 domestic abuse-related calls over 108 days in March, April, May and up to the middle of June this year.