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EVERY NAME ON THIS LIST IS A TRAGEDY. MALE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN MUST END

Each year, to mark International Women’s Day, Labour MP Jess Phillips reads out in Parliament a list that shouldn’t exist. She recites the name of every woman killed in the UK in the past 12 months where a man has been convicted or charged. This year’s roll call came amid heightened anger, exhaustion and heartache in the wake of the death of Sarah Everard – who we can now add as the 118th woman on that list. The loss of Sarah has reignited a fire in many to eradicate violence against women, and urgently. Let’s hope this is a turning point – so that in future years there will be no names to read. Here are the women who should still be alive today. Vanita Nowell, Tracey Kidd, Nelly Moustafa, Zahida Bi, Josephine Kaye, Shadika Mohsin Patel, Maureen Kidd, Wendy Morse, Nageeba Alariqy, Elsie Smith, Kelly Stewart, Gwendoline Bound, Ruth Williams, Victoria Woodhall, Kelly Fitzgibbons, who was killed alongside her two daughters, Caroline Walker, Katie Walker, Zobaidah Salangy, Betty Dobbin, Sonia Calvi, Maryan Ismail, Daniela Espirito Santo, Ruth Brown, Denise Keane-barnett-simmons, Jadwiga Szczygielska, Emma Jane Mcparland, Louise Aitchison, Silke Hartshorne-jones, Hyacinth Morris, Louise Smith, Claire Parry, Aya Hachem, Melissa Belshaw, Yvonne Lawson Mccann, Lyndsey Alcock, Aneta Zdun, Nikoleta Zdun, Mandy Houghton, Amy-leanne Stringfellow, Bibaa Henry, Nicole Smallman, Dawn Bennett, Gemma Marjoram, Karolina Zinkeviciene, Rosemary Hill, Jackie Hoadley, Khloemae Loy, Kerry Woolley, Shelly Clark, Bernadette Walker, Stella Frew, Dawn Fletcher, Deborah Jones, Patrycja Wyrebek, Therasia Gordon, Esther Egbon, Susan Baird, Balvinder Gahir, Lynda Cooper, Lorraine Cox, Suzanne Winnister, Maria Howarth, Abida Karim, Saman Mir Sacharvi, Vian Mangrio, Poorna Kaameshwari Sivaraj, who was killed alongside her three-year-old son, Louise Rump, Julie Williams, Rhonda Humphreys, Nicole Mcgregor, Angela Webber, Carole Wright, Sarah Smith, Ildiko Bettison, Kimberley Deakin, Marie Gladders, Paula Leather, Caroline Kayll, Lauren Mae Bloomer, Hansa Patel, Helen Bannister, Marta Vento, Andreia Rodriguez Guilherme, Joanna Borucka, Azaria Williams, Catherine Granger, Eileen Dean, Sue Addis, Carol Hart, Jacqueline Price, Mary Wells, Tiprat Argatu, Christie Frewin, Souad Bellaha, Ann Turner, N’taya Elliott-cleverley, Rose Marie Tinton, Ranjit Gill, Helen Joy, Emma Robertson, Nicole Anderson, Linda Maggs, Carol Smith, Sophie Moss, Christina Rowe, Susan Hannaby, Michelle Lizanec, Wieslawa Mierzejewska, Judith Rhead, Anna Ovsyannikova, Tina Eyre, Katie Simpson, Bennylyn Burke and her two-year-old daughter, Samantha Heap, Geetika Goyal, Imogen Bohajczuk, Wenjing Xu and Sarah Everard.