Campaigners are calling for ‘urgent action’ to be taken to protect Black, minoritised and migrant (BMM) women from fatal domestic abuse.

A quarter of all female domestic homicide victims recorded between 2020 and 2024 were from BMM backgrounds, according to research from the Invisible Women campaign.

The figures are even more stark in London, where figures show 62% of femicide victims in 2023 were Black – despite Black women comprising only around 14% of the city’s population.

Bereaved families point to ‘systemic failings that see BMM women repeatedly failed by the justice system in cases of domestic abuse that have ultimately led to murder’.

Campaign groups Killed Women and Southall Black Sisters have written to the prime minister ahead of publication of the government’s long-awaited

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