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Domestic abuse has soared by an estimated 30 per cent as victims are trapped with abusive partners during the coronavirus lockdown, it has been reported.
The victims' commissioner, Dame Vera Baird, has called on the government to find extra funding for the sector to support victims and announce a strategy as it's 'another epidemic alongside Covid-19'.
Twelve deaths have been reported in the last five days across the country. Grandson Alan Ginges, 32, has been accused of murdering his grandmother Betty Dobbin, 82, in the house they share in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Nurse and mother-of-three Victoria Woodhall, 31, was stabbed to death outside her home in Middlecliffe, Barnsley, this week.
The operating department practitioner's husband Craig Woodhall, a former soldier, has been arrested. Her children were unharmed.
Charities and helplines have seen a spike in online contacts recently, reports the Daily Telegraph, which is believed to be because victims are unable to find a way to use the phone.
Dame Baird has called on the government to pay for self-catering hotel rooms for victims if suitable refuges cannot be found.
She said some refuges have been forced to close due to unwell staff, an inability to meet social distancing rules.
'The government has done a good job of supporting businesses,' she said. 'They need to look at the charity sector now and say this is not the time for it to go down.'
In the last five days husband Anthony Williams, 69, has been accused of killing his wife Ruth, 67, at their semi-detached home in Brynglas, Cwmbran, South Wales.
Police were also called to a home in Greater Manchester where they found the body of a pensioner in his 80s. A 40-year-old man has been arrested.
A 28-year-old woman has also been arrested on suspicion of murder in Langley Mill, Derbyshire, after officers found a man's body inside a property at 2am yesterday.
Spikes in domestic abuse have also been reported in other countries in lockdown, including Italy,Spain, France and Germany.
Ref: Mail Online
