Data from the campaign group Counting Dead Women, shared with The Independent, estimates 80 women have been killed in cases where a man has been charged in relation to her death. Some 80 women have allegedly been killed by men in the UK in 2024, figures show.
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Data from the campaign group Counting Dead Women, shared with The Independent, estimates 80 women have been killed in cases where a man has been charged in relation to her death. But campaigners told of an additional 11 cases where women have died in suspicious circumstances in 2024 but nobody has been charged.
Karen Ingala Smith, who set up Counting Dead Women, which records the women who have been killed by men in the UK, said the true figures are very likely to be higher than those they have provided. The campaigner warned of the women who will be celebrating New Year’s Eve on Tuesday evening who will not be alive to see in the beginning of 2026.
Ms Ingala Smith told The Independent the death toll “will almost definitely be an undercount”. She added: “There are likely to have been women killed in the last couple of days where a man hasn’t been charged yet. There may be women whose bodies haven’t yet been found, women who may be killed tonight, and our annual Freedom of Information requests always find some women who we missed, usually because the media didn’t report or barely reported.".
