Four times as many sexual offence incidents in a domestic situation recorded in 2021

Nine out of every 10 females who were either murdered or died by manslaughter over the past three years had suffered domestic abuse.

There were four times as many sexual offence incidents in a domestic situation recorded in 2021 compared with 2020 after gardaí updated their systems to define the relationship between offender and victim.

In 2020, 205 such incidents were recorded on the PULSE system. However when the new field was added to the system last July that number rose to 817 in 2021.