Whilst both men and women are killed by domestic violence, the vast majority of victims are women.
In England and Wales, between April 2014 and March 2017, around three-quarters of victims of domestic killings by a partner, ex-partner or family member were women, while suspects are predominantly male
It does state clearly the vast majority are women
However, there must be stats for readers perusing news items and how much more intensely /frequently headings and opening paras are read, than the depth of the body of the article.
The openers in this were all people, and misnomas, suggesting its all about the knife crime
It read as very biased away from what, although once used as an apologist term, domestic, is now widely recognised as a gendered, mysogynistic, and very high profile dangerous behaviour.
The term of domestic abuse is now high profile and fixed in everyone's mind as gendered.
This article is trying to deny the sex element in its use of people which is overtly deviating from the key underpinning fact of da, that men perpetrate it, and women often have to support it, or are conditioned and normalised to its realities.
This is such a backward step.
Wheres this coming from....