Sabina Nessa killing: Does following the 'rules' keep women safe?

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'If a woman is murdered by a man she doesn't know, it is because he wanted to murder her. There is no other reason'

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As Det Ch Supt Lawry says, of course women "should" be able to walk around free from fear. And of course the problem is with the men who murder them rather than the women wearing headphones. And of course women should not have to modify their behaviour in order to not be attacked or abducted or raped or killed.

The killings of Ms Nessa, Ms Everard, Ms Henry and Ms Smallman create an extra frisson of fear because their randomness indicates all women are at risk. If Ms Nessa arranged to meet her friend at a different bar or at a different time; if Ms Everard had left her friend's house 10 minutes earlier or later; if Ms Henry and Ms Smallman had chosen a different part of the park to have their picnic, it could have been different women facing the final few hours of their lives.

And we all do it. We all make sure we have a fully-charged phone and do that spikey weapon-grip with our door keys at the same time as checking nobody is following us inside. We text when we are "home safe" and wait up until we hear the same from our companions. This is normal. This is accepted. This is part of being a woman.

Anna Birley, a co-founder of campaign group Reclaim These Streets, said: "We often get told when the worst happens that the murder of a woman by a stranger in a public place is very rare and we are very safe.

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In other news a teenage girl has been convicted for conspiracy to murder a 13 year old boy. My gut instinct in this case is race.

Sounds plausible but who knows

Isn't that the case for any murder.

Most women who are murdered though are murdered by those who they do know, most often by a former or current partner.

The media only give this level of coverage when the victim is young, pretty, female and generally from London. Ask the family of Julia James why her death wasn't as mourned as Sarah Everard

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