A group held a self-defence class in a bid to empower women amid concerns over street safety and high rates of domestic violence.
Dumbarton West Community Events Group organised the class at St Michael’s Church Hall last week in response to two sexual assaults at Dalreoch railway station and the region having the second worst rate of domestic abuse in the country.
And more than a year on from the murder of Sarah Everard as she walked back to her London home alone after visiting a friend, Clare Sweeney, from the group, questioned if anything has changed to keep women safelocally.
