TW - Murder. I find this wording odd...

[CarbonelCat]

This is a report of a horrible attack. I found this line really oddly worded though. Wasn't she his victim too?

"The court heard he had inflicted 58 wounds on Mr Hibbert and also turned the knife on his victim's wife as she called 999."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-60940708

It's strange that they divulge his injuries too but not hers.

I've jist read a linked report in which they again refer to him but not her as "his victim"

Yes, it's very odd, and sadly typical to relegate a woman to being an adjunct of a man. It would make more sense if they talked about first and second victim, or initial and subsequent. It does seem as though Mr Hibbert was the initial focus of the attack, before the perpetrator decided to attack Michelle Hibbert.

Yes, I thought that when I read this article earlier. Its bias towards the default male. He's the victim, his wife was also stabbed and killed but he's the victim. She's just the victims wife.

I agree.

I think they may be focussing on the motive as you say @RoseslnTheHospital and so he was the intended victim, but it's so odd not to see her as a victim too. And to describe his wounds but just leave her death as an add on.

Poor family regardless.

Yes I thought that when I read it.

There were two victims. Not a victim, and oh yeah, his wife too

It actually makes me feel really sad that wording like this is not flagged up in anyone's head as potentially problematic before it's published.

And yet, so many women, like us, will read it and know that again, the woman's death is somehow less than the interest in both the man's death and the male perpetrator.