New mothers and pregnant women most likely to be killed by older male partners – study

Clodagh Hawe's sister Jacqueline Connelly and mother Mary Coll at Cavan Court House in 2017 after the inquests into the deaths of Clodagh and her three children who were murdered by her husband, Alan Hawe. File picture: Brian Lawless/PA

Pregnant women or new mothers in their 30s or 40s are most likely to be victims of intimate partner homicide, according to a new study into domestic murder homicides.

Their partners are also more likely to be at least a decade older than them and to have subjected them to some form of domestic abuse before killing them.