Families of women who died after violence demand reform

Bereaved families of black, minorities and migrant women who died after suffering violence and abuse have called on the prime minister to help end femicide.

At a Downing Street vigil on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the group said urgent reforms to policing and sentencing are needed "to address systemic failures".

Yasmin Javed, whose daughter Fawziyah Javed was killed after being pushed by her husband from Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh , said authorities had ignored Fawziyah's reports of abuse.

Image: Fawziyah Javed died after being pushed by her husband from Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh

"It fell on deaf ears," she told Sky News, explaining that Fawziyah, 31, who was pregnant when she died, had made complaints about her husband but had been murdered