Women's Aid highlights red flags for domestic homicide after Cavan deaths

As Clodagh Hawe’s family prepare to bury her along with her children and her husband who killed them all earlier this week, Women’s Aid has revealed how common it is for men to threaten to kill their partners and their children during domestic violence incidents.

“In 2015, women disclosed to us on 970 occasions, that their abusive partners threatened to kill them, their children and their families,” Women’s Aid director Margaret Martin writes in today’s Irish Examiner.

“There were 579 additional disclosures of assaults with weapons, threats with weapons, and being strangled and smothered.”