All domestic abuse deaths to be reviewed

Yes, Unrulysun, I think there's a large element of that.

Also, they are depressingly common, hence why the media doesn't get over-excited about "domestic" crimes.

Just the category is rather dismissive, isn't it? Violent crimes committed in the home would be closer to the truth.

Yes IC but I think you're right to feel it's dismissive. It's really 'if there's a random killer out there he might get me but if it's a domestic that only happens to poor people/stupid people/people with poor judgement etc etc not people like me so I don't give a shit.' :(

Good. It's shocking how little importance has been attached to this issue in the past compared with other crimes.

When I worked in the media, a check call to the police press office about a suspicious death in a house would often result in the dismissive reply: "It's a domestic." whereupon we would get nothing further from the police (although, tbf, there were also contempt of court issues involved here - once they've got the perpetrator, they have to be careful about prejudicing the subsequent court case...plus they had no need to give the media anything further because they didn't require help from the public to find witnesses etc. in many cases as they already knew who the offender was - unless they'd tried to make a run for it).

By the same token, news editors would also lose interest in the case.

that is excellent news.
I would hope that the findings of these cases will help bring about changes in the law to help women before they are killed.

That's fantastic. I really hope it goes ahead. I expect many will be shocked by the findings.