‘Hidden homicides’: campaign calls for review of cases where women fell from height

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Fallen Women group wants police to make domestic abuse a key line of inquiry in murder investigations

Campaigners are calling for an immediate review into cases where women have fallen from a height to ensure domestic abusers cannot get away with murder.

There could be as many as 130 “hidden homicides” a year in England and Wales, the Killed Women campaign group estimates, in which women were murdered by a partner or family member but their deaths were officially recorded as accidental or suicide.

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