In September 2013, at least 13 women in the UK are suspected to have been killed through male violence:

1. Harjit Chagger was 69. Her body was found 12 days after she had been reported missing by her family in Chatham, Kent.  She died from head and chest injuries.  Three men, Abdul Hannan, 44, Murshed Miah, 38, both from Maidstone, and Mohammad Islam, 28, who all work at the shop where her body was found have been charged with her murder
2. Aamena Hussain, 29, also known as Jyoti Puaar was found dead in east London.  Two days earlier police had responded to calls regarding an assault by a 33 year old man at her home. A criminal investigation is on-going and a 33-year-old man has been released on police bail.
3. Rosemary Shearman, 77  was found dead at home in Hornchurch, East London.  The cause of her death was asphyxiation.  Thomas Blazquez, 50, has been charged with her murder.
4. Kirsty Humphrey, 23 was found dead in Colchester. 24-year old Mark Czapla has been charged with her murder.  She died  from stab wounds to her head and chest.
5. Lisa Banks, 46 was found dead in the barber shop where she worked in North Shields, Tyne & Wear. She died of multiple injuries. Her husband , Robert Tiffin, 46, has been charged with her murder.
6. Amina Bibi, 43, was found dead in her flat in East London.  Her husband Mohamed Ali, 64, was charged with the murder as was Frederick Best. She had been stabbed.  She was found by her 11 year old son.
7. Varkha Rami, 28, was found dead at home in Walsall after having been reported missing.  Her husband Jasvir Ram Ginday, 29, has been charged with her murder.  They had been married for a month.
8. Gemma Finnigan, 24, was found dead at home in Boldon, South Shields.  Daniel Johnson, 32, who lived with her has been charged with her murder.  The cause of her death has not been released.
9. Shehnila Taufiq, 47 and her daughter  Zainab, 19 were killed in a fire at the home in Leicester along with her two sons.  Aaron Webb, 19,  Akeem Jeffers, 21,  Shaun Carter, 24, Jackson Powell, 19, and Nathaniel Mullings, 19, Kemo Porter, 18, and a 16-year- old are  each facing four counts of murder.
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11. Marion Vita, 48 died after being found at her home in the Baillieston, Glasgow.  Her husband, Anthony Vita has been charged.
12. Mumtaz Sattar, 38, died shortly after she and her husband Abdul arrived in Lahore to visit relatives.  Abdul Sattar said Mumtaz Sattar died after drinking spiked tea in a robbery on a taxi journey.  However, a post-mortem revealed a Ms Sattar suffered a serious head injury and also had a broken bone inher neck which has been said to be consistent with throttling. Police from their hometown,  Glasgow are assisting Pakistan colleagues with details of domestic violence reported by Mumtaz Sattar before she went on holiday.
13. Tolu Kalejaiye,44 of Wickford Essex was found died of a neck wound and was found at home.  Her son, Emmanual Kalejaiye, 21, has been charged with her murder.

The list below is of 91 UK women killed through suspected male violence so far in 2013.  91 women in  273  days, that’s one  woman every 3 days:

I have launched a campaign “Counting Dead Women” because I want to see a fit-for-purpose record of fatal male violence against women.  I want to see the connections between the different forms of fatal male violence against women.  I want Domestic Homicide Review reports to be accessible from a single central source.  I want to see a homicide review for every sexist murder.  I want the government to fund a Femicide Observatory , where relationships between victim and perpetrator and social, cultural and psychological issues are analysed.  I want to believe that the government is doing everything it can to end male violence against women and girls. And I think the government should be recording and commemorating women killed through male violence – not me, a lone woman in a bedroom in east London

Let’s start counting dead women, not ignoring them. If you want us as a society, the press and the government to stop ignoring dead women, if you want us to find ways to stop women being killed,  please join me, add your voice and click here to sign my this petition.  

*Updated 2nd October to include Georgina Barnet, who died on 25 June after being attacked several days earlier