Murder victims in Ireland are now more likely to be innocent women in their own homes than gangland deaths.
She spoke to the Irish Mirror as our special investigation revealed how the numbers of women and girls who suffered violent deaths almost doubled in one year. DS Sweeney, 45, who has 24 years’ experience and has worked in the Garda National Protective Services Unit since 2017. She had her own wake up call in 2013, when she trained with Women’s Aid for two days.
She said: “This woman had had a hoover flex wrapped around her neck repeatedly and pulled and when that didn’t kill her, he picked her up by the neck and smashed her face off a bedside locker.“We were not seeing domestic abuse for what it is. We were not linking domestic killings with abuse calls. That has all changed.“We are conscious one in four women are victims of domestic abuse.”
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