Domestic abuse can include physical abuse, sexual abuse, controlling behaviour, economic abuse, and violent or threatening behaviour. It is when the victim and perpetrator are aged sixteen and over and are personally connected. Statistics show that one in five adults will experience domestic abuse at some point in their lives, this equates to one in four women and one in six to seven men.

In 2022 in the UK alone, 2.4 million adults were victims of domestic abuse with the police recording 1.5 million domestic abuse-related incidents and crimes in England and Wales. The number of domestic abuse-related crimes has increased by 7.7%, leading to a rise in demand for reputable and reliable domestic abuse solicitors in the UK.

Sanjay Panesar, a Senior Partner at Rainer Hughes, said “Women are more likely to be victims of domestic abuse, especially repeated victimisation. Of every three victims, two are female. Ninety-three percent of those using our services to secure a civil protection order in the past year have been women. Police in the UK receive a domestic abuse-related call every thirty seconds. These statistics speak for themselves, showing that domestic abuse-related crime is on the rise across the country this year.”

It is estimated that only twenty-four percent of domestic abuse crime is reported to the police. Two to three women are murdered by a former or current partner and eighty-three men were killed in domestic homicides from April 2016 to March 2019, that is two men each month. The truth of the matter is that sixty-two percent of children that live in a domestic abuse home are directly harmed, not to mention the harm of witnessing the abuse the perpetrator does to the others in the household.

One in five children in the United Kingdom has lived with an adult that perpetrates domestic abuse. In addition to this, women aged sixteen to nineteen are at a higher risk of being victims. The social and economic costs of domestic abuse are around £66 billion in England and Wales with £14 billion due to economic costs from time taken off work.

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