All news on the topic: Domestic violence

After Chantelle Hurst had been subjected to domestic violence, she bludgeoned Mark Seddon in his property near Wigan, Greater Manchester, amid "significant distress"

Adult film star Jesse Jane, real name Cindy Howell, was found dead aged just 43 on Wednesday following a suspected overdose

William Finlay, 68, is seen wiping his murder weapon in the street just seconds after killing retired nurse Alyson Nelson at her home in Whitehead, Northern Ireland

Ex-anaesthetist Mathew Pickering, 49, is accused of strangling his girlfriend Georgina Dowey before covering her head with a black bin liner and trying to dispose of her body in Neath in May last year

The decomposing body of Colette Law, 26, was found battered and bruised in a tent in the grounds of a church in Lincolnshire, in July last year after her boyfriend Paul Neilson, 30, repeatedly beat her

More than 100,000 sought help to escape their abuser via the National Centre for Domestic Abuse and Violence last year - the most ever since records began.

The data uncovered through Freedom of Information requests will reinforce fears over the effect of the Government’s punitive welfare policies including sanctions

Home Alone star Devin Ratray was due to go to court in Oklahoma this week but his domestic violence trial was postponed until February after he was hospitalised 'in critical condition'

The actor best known for playing Macaulay Culkin's brother Buzz McCallister in Home Alone was hospitalised recently, leading to his impending abuse trial being delayed

Sophie Henson was just 19 years old and 36 weeks into her pregnancy when her boyfriend Zach Pennell stopped the car in a rural part of Wales and put his hands around her throat

Labour leader Keir Starmer said community groups will be vital during a 'decade of national change' as he accused the Conservative Party of alienating good causes

Majeda Kassem, 53, and her daughters Halema, Zahia and Hanan suffered gunshots and were pronounced dead by the police on Sunday morning. The suspect was arrested and is in custody

Roda Osman, 33, alleged she was hit in the face with a brick on September 3 but she has since been charged with felony theft by deception - an offense carrying up to 10 years in prison

Claire Inglis was murdered by her sadistic ex-boyfriend Christopher McGowan the High Court in Edinburgh found, just six weeks after he was released on bail to her address in Stirling, Scotland

A national incident has been declared as Britain faces the biggest measles outbreak for 30 years, says Fleet Street Fox. Any parent who prevents their child being vaccinated without a damn good reason is guilty of abuse

Alexis Flavin, 39, from Penarth, has spoken of her ordeal at the hands of brutal Jonathan Cole who throttled her as she lay in bed with their baby daughter

The building society has said it will offer safe spaces to people experiencing domestic abuse at more than 400 branches across the UK

Martins Kovers became "enraged" after his unnamed wife went out drinking following a heated argument with him, he claimed she did not work hard enough despite him not working himself

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Zoe Dronfield, now 47, almost died during a horrific eight-hour attack by her ex, Jason Smith - after he was jailed for 10 years she found out he had assaulted 13 other women

Spice Girls star Melanie Brown, known as Mel B, joins this year's America's Got Talent judging panel – but what do we know about her rapid rise to fame?

The devastated family of the hairdresser who was killed have launched the Hollie Guard safety app, which can automatically record video and audio during a violent incident and alert police

A woman got revenge on her husband after discovering he has an entire second family in another state - but he launched an attack right back at her

Amy Louise Harper, 31, died from a head injury following an 'unexplained' fall at home in Huddersfield, as an inquest heard her abusive partner waited 33 hours before calling an ambulance

After admitting she reported her husband to the police because of his 'creepy' sexual kink, a woman has asked for clarification on whether or not she was in the wrong. However, the truth is far more sinister

An 'entitled' man has charged his stepdaughter £280 for not loading the dishwasher – calling her 'fat and lazy' and threatening to throw her out of the family home