Statistically, there’s a reliable way to predict a domestic violence homicide like Hannah Clarke’s

A victim’s intuition is a reliable predictor of domestic and family violence homicide, research shows. Composite: Guardian design/AAP

When researchers in Queensland catalogued data from seven years of intimate-partner killings, they found one thing common to more than half of those cases – a victim’s own sense of fear about their impending death.

Statistically, the most reliable way to predict a domestic violence homicide is to believe the victim.