#violence-against-women

#violence-against-women

Prime Video; available now Waleed Zuaiter, Robin Wright and Laurie Davidson in The Girlfriend. Photograph: Christopher Raphael/Courtesy of Prime Summed up in a sentence A steamy, incestuous adaptation of an excellent novel that pits an adult son's new girlfriend against his mother in an ever-more extreme contest. It has lost little of the book's psychological acuity and retained all of the suspense. Not one to watch with your sons, perhaps, but otherwise enjoy.

But it is beginning to appear that, like Elliot Rodger and others--including serial killer Ted Bundy, who in 1978 brutally attacked four college girls, killing two, at the Chi Omega sorority house in Tallahassee, Florida--Kohberger had a big problem with women. He reportedly had been bullied or teased by peers, especially popular females, in middle school for being morbidly obese, and, as a consequence, may have harbored intense feelings of resentment, anger or rage toward those whom he felt tortured him so cruelly.

Enough is enough. Things are far worse for women than when my Sally Anne was killed. I'm not surprised about Croydon - I've been warning about it for two decades. When detectives first started to investigate Sally Anne's murder, even they were shocked by the number of sex offenders living a short distance away from her home. They had to knock on all of their doors first before widening searches further afield.

The arrests followed nationwide outrage over a video depicting the murders, with many calling it yet another case of honour killing, a phenomenon reported from across South Asia.

A young woman with her whole life ahead of her, taken in the most devastating way. Another family left shattered. Two children left without their mummy.

Annabel Rook was a dedicated advocate for survivors of gender-based violence and co-founder of MamaSuze, enriching the lives of disadvantaged women.

Cameron Kasambala stated, 'Women die no matter what they do... It's rooted in our violent history and exacerbated by poverty and substance abuse.'