Three murders amid an ‘explosion’ of violence prompt emergency meeting, with community-based victim support under pressure
An emergency meeting of Merseyside MPs will take place on Wednesday, prompted by the unprecedented killings of three women in the region in a single weekend, an “explosion” in local rates of domestic abuse during the pandemic and an impending financial crisis.
Labour MP Paula Barker has called the roundtable. The pandemic has inflicted huge damage on specialist community-based domestic abuse services across the country, and has severely impacted the Liverpool Domestic Abuse Service (LDAS) in her Wavertree constituency.
