The Latest Breaking News from Domestic Abuse

Domestic abuse victims will receive direct payments to help them to leave abusive relationships.

A domestic Homicide Review into the harrowing crime tells how police were called when the victim went to hospital with knife and baseball bat injuries just three months before he died, but no 'safeguarding alert' was made

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has unveiled plans to crack down on antisocial behaviour. The proposals include making offenders wear hi-vis jackets to wash police cars and clean up vandalism, within 48 hours of being served a court order. Offenders may have to do other unpaid work in their local communities.

Daniel White, 36, has been jailed for life with a minimum of 20 years for the murder of Angela White, 45, who he strangled before cutting her throat after kicking open a locked door

A top councillor has warned that city authorities do not have enough resources to properly support the thousands of domestic abuse victims in Newcastle

Writing exclusively for The Mirror, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says that too few crimes are investigated or solved, while serious violence has gone up and confidence in police has fallen

The charges were dismissed with insufficient evidence, leaving Roiland ‘deeply shaken by the horrible lies’

Victims of domestic abuse can now use a QR code to access a website that directs them to agencies that can help, orders of protection, shelters and legal aid.

Sir Keir Starmer will pledge to tackle violence against women and girls with specialist rape units and domestic abuse advisers.