Gemma Dorman, stabbed to death.
Detectives have been questioning a 28-year-old man in connection with the fatal stabbing of Gemma Dorman, 23, in Battersea last week.
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Police said she may have known her attacker, who is described as a dark-skinned man with short dark hair, aged in his mid 20s.
Let’s think about that a moment. "She may have known her attacker" and lets take a look at this article by Julie Bindel.
One in four women experience domestic violence at some point in their lives and 10 kill themselves because of it every week. Two are murdered each week. For women under 44, it is the most common cause of morbidity – above both cancer and road accidents.
Domestic - In their own home - They knew the attacker! So, yeah, chances are high that Gemma knew her killer. Many women do, stranger attack is rare, acquaintance attack is not only not rare, it’s actually very commonplace. Why do you think any police investigation looks to friends and family as suspects first? And it’s more often the men doing the attacking. How many women friends do you have? Is it more than four? More than ten? How many have experienced violence in their own home? How many haven’t told you?
My question is this: how can only a few men be abusing women? Even if a small number of men made it their life’s work to commit acts of sexual brutality, they would not be able to chalk up the numbers involved. So let’s admit it, once and for all – way too many men abuse way too many women.
This scares me too. I’ve read and spoken to women who say "Oh, not my husband/boyfriend/son/brother, he wouldn’t do that." But every man who attacks/assaults/rapes a women is someone’s son/husband/boyfriend/brother. Think about who you’re having dinner with tonight, take a close look at him and make your own mind up.
