Twenty-eight women were murdered last year with the majority of the killers being their husband/partners who were abusive or didn’t accept their decision to end the relationship.
According to statistics provided to Stabroek News, seventeen of the twenty-eight women killed in 2022, were either stabbed, burnt, shot or beaten by their intimate partners who they were living with or had just ended the relationship.
In eleven of the cases, the perpetrators were apprehended by the police and placed before the courts. They are all currently on remand. Five others died by suicide while one remains on the loose.
