Latest Femicide Census published

[IwantToRetire]

Today (Tuesday 2 September 2025), the Femicide Census releases data on women killed by men in the UK in 2022. As most cases have now concluded the criminal justice process, we are now able to publish the most comprehensive data on femicides from 2022 in the UK. This is our fourteenth year of reporting.

The Femicide Census has identified 122 women who were killed by men in the UK in 2022. 62 women were killed by a current or former partner. More women were killed by their son than by a stranger. The vast majority of women were killed in their own home. Evidence of gratuitous violence was found in just over two-thirds of killings.

Key findings include:

• Consistent with previous years, women killed by men are most likely to be killed by a current or former partner than any other man. Sixty-two (51%) women killed by men in 2022 were killed by a current or former intimate partner. The average between 2009 and the end of 2021 is 60%.
• Leaving an abusive man is no guarantee of women’s safety. The Femicide Census has consistently shown that separation is a risk factor for intimate partner femicides, or more accurately, a trigger for violent, abusive and/or controlling men At least 40% of women killed by a current/former partner had left or were taking steps to leave him. Yet Women’s Aid regularly report that there are insufficient spaces in women’s refuges to meet need.
• A sharp instrument, such as a knife, was used in the killing of 65 women (53%). This has consistently been the most common method men choose to kill women.
• Men used the brute force of their own bodies in the killings of 20 women (17%) by kicking, hitting and stamping a woman to death.
• More women were killed by their sons than by strangers. 10% of women killed by men were killed by their sons. 9% were killed by strangers.

Of the men who killed women in 2022:

• Seventy-one men (57%) were known to have histories of violence against women and/or were subject to monitoring or restrictions by a statutory agency at the time they killed.
• The majority of men who kill women are charged with murder. 84% of all who killed, 97% of those charged, were charged with murder, double or multiple murder.

Continues at https://www.femicidecensus.org/femicide-census-publishes-its-annual-report/

2022 Femicide Census
The 2022 Femicide Census report analyses the deaths of 122 women killed by men in 2022.
2022 Femicide Census

More women were killed by their son than by a stranger.

My goodness, that is dreadful.

Thank you for sharing this

More women were killed by their sons than by strangers.

10% of women killed by men were killed by their sons.

9% were killed by strangers.

Thank you for sharing

A friend of mine was murdered by her boyfriend earlier this year. It always seemed such an abstract thing, although no less tragic, until it happened to someone I knew. The cowardly cunt then went and hanged himself in the toilets of the local hospital, although I think he chose the location because he wanted it to be a cry for help (so he could use his mental health as excuse for what he did) and wasn't intending to actually kill himself. That's just speculation on my part though.
As for my friend, she struggled with her mental health but always had time for people and would stop and chat with anyone. She always did her makeup beautifully (very gothy) and she loved skulls and anything purple. I miss her.

IwantToRetire
Thanks for sharing (but grim reading)

SapphireSeptember
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I just thought, was it because it was still semi lockdown in 2022? I can't remember if we were still in semi lockdown in 2022, was that still the Bubbles?

if so, women were going out less, and so less likely to encounter strangers.

Or is that statistic the case every year?

I'm so sorry, @SapphireSeptember

Thanks for this thread, OP. I actually gasped when I saw the reporting earlier today, that more women were killed by their sons than by strangers.

But at the same time wasn't completely surprised. The threads on MN from posters dealing with violent sons are terrifying.

No, lockdowns were 2020 and the first half of 2021.

Fair enough, it's all a blur to me now!

What I found sad about the data is that mothers are now more likely to be killed by their sons than by a stranger.

SapphireSeptember, I'm so sorry.

Thinking of all of these women.

More needs to be done about violent sons. It's terrifying. There have been posts on MN from women locked in a room waiting for their sons to calm down.

I’m so sorry about your friend, that’s so terrible.

For comparison, in 2019

• 65 women (51%) were killed by a current or former partner
• 14 women (11%) were killed by their son
• 16 women (13%) were killed by a stranger

So it does fluctuate a little, but strangers are always well down the list. It's not a lockdown thing.

Thank you for looking that up, that makes sense. That definitely answers my question about the lockdown thing.

Also, I know I'm stating the obvious but these are just the women who were finally killed...there must be many many more that are attacked and seriously injured by partners but not actually killed.

Actually, more robust figures are those from the 2009-2018 10-year summary, which smooths out statistical noise.

Relationship of victim to perpetrator

• Spouse/intimate partner, including former parners: 62%
• Stranger/no known relationship 8%
• Mother 8%
• Friend/social acquaintance 5%
• Acquaintance 2%
• Neighbour 2%
• Unknown 2%
• Prostituted woman/”escort” 1%
• Housemate 1%
• Daughter 1%
• Sister 1%
• Business associate/colleague 1%
• Grandmother 1%
• Relative of perpetrator’s partner/ex-partner 1%
• First contact/date 1%
• Landlady 1%
• Mother-in-law 0.5%
• Sister-in-law 0.5
• Relative of perpetrator’s acquaintance 0.5%
• Ex mother-in-law 0.4%
• Aunt 0.3%
• Fellow care home resident 0.3%
• Niece 0.3%
• Stepmother 0.3%
• Friend of perpetrator’s partner/ex-partner 0.2%
• Mother of perpetrator’s partner 0.2%
• Mother of perpetrator’s ex-partner 0.2%
• Partner/ex-partner of perpetrator’s acquaintance 0.2%
• Step-grandmother 0.2%
• Stepdaughter 0.1%
• Tenant/lodger 0.1%
• Foster carer <0.1%
• Partner/ex-partner of perpetrator’s relative <0.1%
• Partner of perpetrator’s ex-partner <0.1%
• Partner of perpetrator’s father <0.1%
• Stepsister <0.1%

Total 1,435 killings

On average 89 women are killed each year by a partner or ex partner, 12 by a stranger, 11 by their son, and 10 by a friend or acquaintance.

Truly shocked by the murders by sons.
I do think this thread should be in maybe one of the general boards; maybe the Relationship or Parenting?
Many MNs don't visit FWR.

there must be many many more that are attacked and seriously injured by partners but not actually killed.

Absolutely. I'm not sure if there's a similar compilation of those figures or if you'd have to dig through the wider crime stats but I expect they will be many orders of magnitude higher (and of course it will often go unreported).

It was posted in news to the usual tumbleweed.

Probably because shocking, dreadful and unacceptable is it is, it's nothing new. Plus ca change and all that.

This has come up before, and I find it hard to think which ones as I dont participate in any.

Is there one that is more family as a whole rather than dividing it up into relationship and then parenting.

Am happy to post. Would it be wrong to post it in 2 different forums?

I'd just put it in Chat: that's fairly well travelled.

(I'll let you start it. I'm a thread-killer extraordinaire, so if I do it the thread will somehow sink without trace...)

If you mean the fake forum created by MNHQ for all the nice girls who dont want to have to talk about TRAs invading women's sex based rights, then on principle no.

The sooner that faux feminist board is closed down the better.

This is THE feminism board as its long standing URL makes clear - Women's Rights.

I don't think pp meant Feminism Chat. She meant just Chat, which is the second popular forum after Aibu isn't it?

Sorry, didn't realise there was a "Chat".

Will look a bit harder.

Perhaps just regular chat? We could all bump it maybe get it trending. I think it's really important, thank you for doing the thread.

I can never remember where to find the Chat board in the menus, I think it's somewhere less than obvious, but it's this one: www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat