Domestic abusers driving more victims to suicide, warn police

Louisa Rolfe from the National Police Chiefs’ Council called violence against women and girls ‘deeply ingrained’. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Domestic abusers are driving their victims to suicide, police have warned as they admitted to past mistakes and pledged to investigate more “hidden” cases of violence against women.

The concession came as a new report revealed that deaths by suicide among victims of domestic abuse surpassed the number of people killed by an intimate partner for a second year in a row.