Carol. Hannah. Louise. Three women, killed in a chilling, apparently targeted murder in their home last week. A quotidian horror, remarkable only for the fact that this was a multiple homicide. Yet another atrocity that should, but never seems to, beg the question: when will Jess Phillips stand up in the House of Commons on International Women’s Day and state that she has no new names of dead women to read out, as none were killed by men in the previous 12 months?
Why does that seem such an impossible – even ludicrous – notion? While the country grieves for the Hunt family and struggles to process the terror this mother and daughters would have endured before dying, it is certain that another woman will be killed only a few days from now.
