A summer defined by men killing women and girls. This can’t go on | Frances Ryan
The recent spate of deaths has resonated with so many people because it feels at once shocking and deeply familiar
It started with a crossbow. In July, Carol Hunt and her two daughters, Louise and Hannah, were killed in their family home in Hertfordshire. When Hannah was found, reports say she was still alive with a crossbow bolt in her chest. Louise’s ex-boyfriend, Kyle Clifford, has been arrested in connection with the killings but remains in hospital.
Three weeks later three young girls – Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar – were stabbed to death in Southport. The children were doing yoga and dancing to Taylor Swift songs when they died. An 18-year-old man has been charged.
Frances Ryan is a Guardian columnist
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