domestic abuse

The number of defendants with a proven domestic violence charge increased by 3 percent within five years.

Family violence, IKEA said, is a leading cause of homelessness for women and children in Australia.

‘These are long overdue, targeted and will help keep women and children safer.’

A detective inspector described the killing as ‘brutal’ and said it had left the woman’s family devastated.

‘It would have been made all the more painful as she would have spent her final moments trying to comprehend what you ... had done to her.’