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Silence as MP Jess Phillips reads names of 108 women killed by men in UK - full list

MPs listened in silence as Labour MP Jess Phillips read out a list of women killed by men in the last year in the Commons today.

The Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding, who reads the list every year, said it was the "honour " of her life to pay tribute to their lost lives.

The Commons fell silent as Ms Phillips read the list of 108 names - one of which had been added just as she was entering the chamber. It took her five minutes to read out the names.

Families whose loved ones appear on this list and previous lists joined MPs in Westminster, as they listened to Ms Phillips's list from the viewing gallery.

She said they wanted her to "make clear that lessons are not being learned", as she said those in Government need to "honour these women not by reading out their names" but with commitments to change things.

The Labour MP opened her speech by paying "huge tribute" to Counting Dead women and to the femicide census for keeping track of women who are killed.

She said: "The first year I read the list of killed women, women who had been killed by men, one of the women’s names sparked a moment of recognition for anyone other than their bereaved loved ones.

"This year there will be names on this list we have all heard of, women who following their brutal killings have become household names.

"Were it not for the arduous work over a decade of Karen Ingala Smith and latterly her work with the femicide census to painfully keep this list and to fight every day for killed women to be an issue of major public concern, working alongside brilliant and crusading bereaved families, moms, dad, brothers sisters, daughters and sons, this years list would be equally anonymous.

"These amazing campaigners have made sure that killed women are no longer just a name recorded in a local paper, they have made the issue of femicide and all the failings that lead to increased risk are a national priority for the people of Britain.2

After reading the list, Ms Phillips said she also wanted to mention "women who are suffering terrible domestic abuse and sexual violence" and the "many women who never make it onto this list because no one is ever charged with their killing".

Zara Aleena was attacked and killed while walking home in June last year (PA)

She said she has read hundreds of inquest reports and domestic homicide reviews over the years, criticising that everyone "tells us next time it will be different. It never is."

Ms Phillips closed her speech with a powerful call to action, as she said: "The families of the killed Women Campaign who join us here today would want me to make clear that lessons are not being learned. Warm words are no longer enough.

"We honour these women not by reading out their names, not by doing any of the promises that happen in this place. We honour them with deeds, not with words.

"Femicide is currently not mentioned in the domestic abuse strategy. This is not okay. I urge the Government to hurry up and release the long overdue sentencing review into domestic homicide.

"There is no reason why we are still waiting. All these women died in the time that we have been promised this review."

Dame Diana Johnson, who chairs Parliament's Home Affairs Committee, said of the list: "It's terribly heartbreaking, it's a reminder of the dangers women and girls face."

She told MPs that three years ago, her constituent Libby Squire was on the list, stating: "Her life was taken by a predatory man who was prowling the street of Hull."

Libby's killer, Pawel Relowicz, had a long history of committing sexual offences. - as did evil police officer Wayne Couzens, who murdered Sarah Everard.

Dame Diana told MPs: "What we know is the behaviour of men who expose themselves is very sadly common and normalised.

"When I asked women MPs about their experiences of men, everyone had a story."

She said such offences regularly turn out to be "stepping stones", and said: "If this government doesn't accept this as a national emergency, I hope the next one will."

The names of the women who were killed where the primary suspect or known killer is a man since this time last year:

1

Sabita Thanwani

2

Yasmin Begum

3

Shotera Bibi

4

Sherry Bruce

5

Helen Lawrie

6

Emma Baillie

7

Ramona Stoia

8

Alyson Nelson

9

Susan Farrance

10

Katie Kenyon

11

Buddug Jones

12

Inayat Begum

13

Dolet Hill

14

Tanysha Ofori-Akuffo

15

Samantha Drummonds

16

Diana Gabaliene

17

Aimee Cannon

18

Amanda McAlear

19

Shannon Stanley

20

Lorraine Cullen

21

Karen Wheeler

22

Lisa Fraser

23

Ania Jedrkowiak

24

Unnamed woman

25

Mari O'Flynn

26

Julie Youel

27

Antonella Castelvedere

28

Kerry Owen

29

Sarah Ali

30

Jennifer Andrews

31

Unnamed woman

32

Margaret Una Noone

33

Sakunthala Francis

34

Sally Turner

35

Somaiya Begum

36

Zara Aleena

37

Wendy Morris

38

Abi Fisher

39

Margaret Barnes

40

Hina Bashir

41

Samantha Murphy

42

Madison Wright

43

Lauren Howe

44

Becci Rees-Hughes

45

Mairi Doherty

46

Kathleen John

47

Helen Barlow

48

Mckyla Taylor

49

Elinor O'Brien

50

Ashley Dale

51

Karen Dempsey

52

Wendy Buckney-Morgan

53

Lizzie McCann

54

Margaret Griffiths

55

Susan Moore

56

Katie Hurmuz-Irimia

57

Jacqueline Forrest

58

Patricia Bitters

59

Harleen Kaur Satpreet Gandhi

60

Hollie Thompson

61

Ruth Stone-Houghton

62

Jillu Nash

63

Jill Barclay

64

Diana Dafter

65

Hilary Round

66

Angie White

67

Yolanda Saldana Feliz

68

Deborah Gumbrell

69

Caroline Adeyelu

70

Keisha Christodoulou

71

Emma Potter

72

Alexis Karran

73

Clair Armstrong

74

Jacqueline Rutter

75

Lorraine Mills

76

Fatoumatta Hydara

77

Ruta Draudvilaite

78

Mary Andrews

79

Michelle Hanson

80

Maureen Gitau

81

Cynthia Turner

82

Anju Asok

83

Ailish Walsh

84

Natalie McNally

85

Sabrina Cooper

86

Stacey Warnock

87

Francesca Di Dio

88

Courtney Boorne

89

Elle Edwards

90

Stephanie Hansen

91

Gabriella Rudin

92

Beatrice Corry

93

Jacqueline Kerr

94

Holly Newton

95

Anne Woodbridge

96

Emma Pattison

97

Valentina Cozma

98

Erica Parsons

99

Lorna England

100

Edna Berry

101

Darrell Buchanan

102

Eliza Bibby

103

Sarah Brierley

104

Sarah Albone

105

Sandra Giraldo

106

Charlotte Wilcock

107

Jane Collinson

108

Helen Harrison

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