Although domestic abuse is chronically under reported, research estimates it:
• accounts for 16% of all violent crime
• will affect 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men in their lifetime
• 77% of victims of domestic abuse are women
• has more repeat victims than any other crime (on average there will have been 35 assaults before a victim calls the police)
• on average, two women are killed every week by a current or former male partner
• one incident of domestic abuse is reported to the police every minute