What is fuelling the rise in domestic abuse cases among younger people?

Warning: This report contains distressing details.

Across all age groups, there has been a higher proportion of police recorded domestic homicides where a victim took their own life after suffering abuse, compared to those where a partner killed the victim.

In the five years of the annual Domestic Homicide Project, 414 cases were intimate partner homicide, 227 were adult familial homicide, 553 were suicide following domestic abuse, 131 were unexpected deaths, 86 child deaths and 41 were classified as other.

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