BBCMisogyny tasered man, no mention of murdered woman victim

There's an article in the independent saying she was still alive when the policewoman tazered him, AuntieStella. The article is fairly graphic I imagine some bits of the media are more sensitive than others, especially as her poor family could be reading/watching

I saw a short article in the Metro this morning (8am) which had very few details, no names IIRC.

All the reports I have seen today have been about the horrific nature of the crime and, after Cerys Yemm's name and photograph were released, she has been very much in the centre of the coverage.

Details of victims are not always released immediately, to allow time for key family members and friends to be told privately rather than find out from the news. And the peculiarly horrific nature of the attack has led to very limited information, and no-one (it seems) breaking ranks to provide information ahead of the official statements.

A further angle on this is the question of police conduct, and when the police kill someone that must also be examined. Information on that death was in the public domain rapidly. It's not clear when Cerys Yemm actually died, so it remains possible that the news sequence was simply following the sequence of events as they happened.

Actually, thinking about this some more, I'm happier with "Police kill person with taser during arrest" as a headline, in terms of how it reflects what we as a society should worry about, than I am with "Released prisoner in CANNIBAL ATTACK".

Other than insofar as it is another awful example of a woman being a victim of male violence, I don't think this case - or at any rate the reporting of it I have read - is problematic from a feminist point of view.

But I might well be wrong, and I'd love to read others' views, since I'm a noob to all this.

Wow, stones.

Good to see common sense being posted.
Sometimes seeing the world through a prism leads you down a wrong path.

I can see how a person dying as a result of action by a police officer is more of a headline story than a person dying during a sexually motivated assault.

Of course both are shocking, and I'd rather the second was as rare as the first.

And it was the killer who lived in a homeless hostel, not the victim.

It looks like they released the woman's name sometime today, it's time stamped this afternoon on the bbc but dont know if that's right.

RIP Cerys Marie Yemm.

He was tazered because he was attacking her as the policewoman walked into the room. My guess is the policewoman did this to stop him and he died as a result of being tazered.

It would be an older report, Cherries. Sometimes it takes time to gather information and if that's all they had to go on... They change the news reports as they gather more information.

All the news reports I heard today - travelling down the M1 - were either circumspectly vague, or reported both deaths.

But the point that they were making, in the detail of the report, was that the male had been tasered because he was not only the murderer, but also the cannibal. Surely, given the horrific nature of this crime, this would have been reported first? Why are you trying to make something 'feminist' about the reporting of this crime, when the really horrific nature of it is to to do with the man who was involved?

Same one, Yonic. The Police Complaints are involved because he died after being tazered.

Oh sorry I missed this was an older case.

It's showing on BBC now as mentioning the woman, I think? Maybe they had to tell next of Kin first?

They can't show a picture on the radio

I've just seen the article on the BBC news. Poor love They showed her picture and said that she was a 22 year old shop worker. Then there was a neighbour talking, then some info about the police woman who was first on the scene, then some info about him. They can only show so much within the timeframe. Maybe they knew more about him then they did about her when they did the headlines on the radio?